Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream
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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.
THQ doesn’t fill me with confidence.
Home Alone 2: Kevin’s Dream was later reskinned a Bobby’s World game and then was never released anyway.
I heard they lost the license to Home Alone. Or maybe what happened is that they weren’t going to get it released before Christmas and they just gave it a reworking so they could delay it until February because, as the creators of the movie Reindeer Games learned the hard way, nobody’s getting in the Christmas spirit in February.
And speaking of unreleased games, Jimmy Carter is still alive. I think I reverse-jinxed him with getting my writeup of Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill up first.
It's weird that this is Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream, because he's not at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, he's in his bed.
His first dream makes me think of Little Nemo and its Cloud Ruins.
Your main attack is to throw anvils. Or maybe they’re irons because that would make sense.
It controls like a prototype.
You’ll never have more than three hitpoints.
So throughout the levels there are objects you have to collect.
So it’s kind of like other “airplane hangar” games of the time except it’s crammed in a small screen.
The Dragon-Harry moves up and down and shoots fireballs. If you run out of anvils, the game provides more for you, but you have to get them.
I’m Krusty the Clown and I don’t like you.
I’m Krusty the Clown and I’m going to kill you.
I said I’m Krusty the Clown and I’m going to kill you. You! Kevin McAllister!
The pattern here is giving me a headache.
Of course Harry and Marv are here too.
So here it makes sense that you can’t get through the level without the balloons.
Once you have all the balloons, this happens.
Harry D. Clown will walk back and forth and juggle bombs that he'll throw at you.
now that you’re on the moon, Harry and Marv will just be stunned by your attacks; you have to knock them into lava or venus fly traps.
the hit detection on the lava pool is janky.
at least the giant stalactites don’t do damage.
the music doesn’t sound like anything from Home Alone. I’m assuming that it was unchanged for Bobby’s World.
Nor does the music sound particularly Christmasy, which is a je ne se quoi thing. 9th chords or half-diminished ii chords according to someone, which can be expressed with a Game Boy’s soundchip and little twinkly bells, which can’t. Me, I’ve come to the conclusion that Sleigh Ride, which was originally written as an instrumental, is at the very least wintery even removed from its context, and erasing everyone’s collective memories regarding 1950s pop standards and rewriting the lyrics to be about anything else is so beyond our capabilities that there’s little point in thinking about it.
I’m surprised Kevin’s parents would let him watch Alien. They won’t even let him watch gangster movies from the 40s and those are subject to Hays Code regulations. Although who can say. Maybe he watched Alien while he was left home alone again for a third time. Maybe Kevin’s 15 now and just dealing with PTSD.
You can only hit the tongue. And his hitbox is too frigging big to jump over. And if you die, you have to do everything in the level all over again. If you have full health, you can beat him by tanking damage but otherwise, you have to jump over the tongue when he walks up to you.
Note: Home Alone 3 has an entirely different kid, an entirely different set of burglars, and takes place after vacation ends and he’s home with the chicken pox. We aren’t going to acknowledge Home Alone 4 and 5.
The next stage forgoes the object hunting in favor of pure platforming.
Many involve moving platforms.
I’m not sure what UD is supposed to be. Oh, right, Unexpected Development.
also you have no attacks and just have to dodge everything
it suffers from the cardinal sin of game boy games, that it so say, the background is far too busy.
Robot Marv looks more like Robot Abe Lincoln.
I can’t tell if Marv’s legs are supposed to be detached from his body or if this is a glitch.
The graphics make things especially confusing here.
This is just weird.
It’s like Kevin wandered in to a Ren and Stimpy game, although even as a prototype, it’s still less painful than Time Warp.
Marv looks more like Moe from the Three Stooges here.
It does four attacks, one you have to duck under, one you have to stand in the right spot to avoid, one you have to jump over, and another one you have to stand there again but in a different spot. The eye opens. It’s only vulnerable when the eye opens. If you’re Kevin, you can stay on the ground but if you’re Bobby, you have to jump. And then repeat. And repeat. And repeat and repeat and repeat.
And that’s it. You press start and you can go back to the title screen.
But wait, there’s more! A Toys-Я-Us “vidpro card” mentions Kevin dreaming of being inside his favorite video games. It also says he’s home alone again, so maybe instead of wacky antics, he’s just sleeping through everything. Use the game genie code 03C-97D-E62 to get to the secret cut level!
that’s zero-three-C
Space Invaders takes way too freaking long. Apparently they respawn and you just have to be lucky.
It's still called Marv's Revenge in the Bobby's World version.
PacMan makes no sense whatsoever. I was going to say “I would say it was taken out of the game because they’re on the level of Ren and Stimpy Time Warp’s minigames but they’re not that bad” but, you know what? It is that bad. In Bobby’s World, you can throw hats.
Maybe this is unfinished somehow. After that is a Donkey Kong clone with a cow. You’ll have to take my word for it and by my word, I mean the word of TCRF because I haven’t seen it for myself. I don’t even know if it’s a cow in this version. Maybe it’s Harry/Marv throwing paint cans, pipes, and tool chests in a sort of reversal of the movie’s traps. I doubt that, though. Unless they were planning to bring back the arcade level but then ran out of time.
It really wouldn’t be hard to make a Home Alone game. Just have him in the house placing traps and then evading Harry and Marv or taunting them. Some of the traps sit there until Harry and Marv set them off. Some of the traps you have to activate yourself when Harry and Marv are in the right position. And maybe eventually Harry and Marv will get wise to the traps and you'll have to take a different approach, like with the paint cans and metal pipe in 2. It would be a lot like Polterguy. Or a survival horror without the actual horror. But instead, we just get platformers. At least this concept actually makes sense.
burning question: how old were you when you watched your first R-rated or equivalent movie?
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.
THQ doesn’t fill me with confidence.
Home Alone 2: Kevin’s Dream was later reskinned a Bobby’s World game and then was never released anyway.
I heard they lost the license to Home Alone. Or maybe what happened is that they weren’t going to get it released before Christmas and they just gave it a reworking so they could delay it until February because, as the creators of the movie Reindeer Games learned the hard way, nobody’s getting in the Christmas spirit in February.
And speaking of unreleased games, Jimmy Carter is still alive. I think I reverse-jinxed him with getting my writeup of Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill up first.
It's weird that this is Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream, because he's not at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, he's in his bed.
His first dream makes me think of Little Nemo and its Cloud Ruins.
Your main attack is to throw anvils. Or maybe they’re irons because that would make sense.
It controls like a prototype.
You’ll never have more than three hitpoints.
So throughout the levels there are objects you have to collect.
So it’s kind of like other “airplane hangar” games of the time except it’s crammed in a small screen.
The Dragon-Harry moves up and down and shoots fireballs. If you run out of anvils, the game provides more for you, but you have to get them.
I’m Krusty the Clown and I don’t like you.
I’m Krusty the Clown and I’m going to kill you.
I said I’m Krusty the Clown and I’m going to kill you. You! Kevin McAllister!
The pattern here is giving me a headache.
Of course Harry and Marv are here too.
So here it makes sense that you can’t get through the level without the balloons.
Once you have all the balloons, this happens.
Harry D. Clown will walk back and forth and juggle bombs that he'll throw at you.
now that you’re on the moon, Harry and Marv will just be stunned by your attacks; you have to knock them into lava or venus fly traps.
the hit detection on the lava pool is janky.
at least the giant stalactites don’t do damage.
the music doesn’t sound like anything from Home Alone. I’m assuming that it was unchanged for Bobby’s World.
Nor does the music sound particularly Christmasy, which is a je ne se quoi thing. 9th chords or half-diminished ii chords according to someone, which can be expressed with a Game Boy’s soundchip and little twinkly bells, which can’t. Me, I’ve come to the conclusion that Sleigh Ride, which was originally written as an instrumental, is at the very least wintery even removed from its context, and erasing everyone’s collective memories regarding 1950s pop standards and rewriting the lyrics to be about anything else is so beyond our capabilities that there’s little point in thinking about it.
I’m surprised Kevin’s parents would let him watch Alien. They won’t even let him watch gangster movies from the 40s and those are subject to Hays Code regulations. Although who can say. Maybe he watched Alien while he was left home alone again for a third time. Maybe Kevin’s 15 now and just dealing with PTSD.
You can only hit the tongue. And his hitbox is too frigging big to jump over. And if you die, you have to do everything in the level all over again. If you have full health, you can beat him by tanking damage but otherwise, you have to jump over the tongue when he walks up to you.
Note: Home Alone 3 has an entirely different kid, an entirely different set of burglars, and takes place after vacation ends and he’s home with the chicken pox. We aren’t going to acknowledge Home Alone 4 and 5.
The next stage forgoes the object hunting in favor of pure platforming.
Many involve moving platforms.
I’m not sure what UD is supposed to be. Oh, right, Unexpected Development.
also you have no attacks and just have to dodge everything
it suffers from the cardinal sin of game boy games, that it so say, the background is far too busy.
Robot Marv looks more like Robot Abe Lincoln.
I can’t tell if Marv’s legs are supposed to be detached from his body or if this is a glitch.
The graphics make things especially confusing here.
This is just weird.
It’s like Kevin wandered in to a Ren and Stimpy game, although even as a prototype, it’s still less painful than Time Warp.
Marv looks more like Moe from the Three Stooges here.
It does four attacks, one you have to duck under, one you have to stand in the right spot to avoid, one you have to jump over, and another one you have to stand there again but in a different spot. The eye opens. It’s only vulnerable when the eye opens. If you’re Kevin, you can stay on the ground but if you’re Bobby, you have to jump. And then repeat. And repeat. And repeat and repeat and repeat.
And that’s it. You press start and you can go back to the title screen.
But wait, there’s more! A Toys-Я-Us “vidpro card” mentions Kevin dreaming of being inside his favorite video games. It also says he’s home alone again, so maybe instead of wacky antics, he’s just sleeping through everything. Use the game genie code 03C-97D-E62 to get to the secret cut level!
that’s zero-three-C
Space Invaders takes way too freaking long. Apparently they respawn and you just have to be lucky.
It's still called Marv's Revenge in the Bobby's World version.
PacMan makes no sense whatsoever. I was going to say “I would say it was taken out of the game because they’re on the level of Ren and Stimpy Time Warp’s minigames but they’re not that bad” but, you know what? It is that bad. In Bobby’s World, you can throw hats.
Maybe this is unfinished somehow. After that is a Donkey Kong clone with a cow. You’ll have to take my word for it and by my word, I mean the word of TCRF because I haven’t seen it for myself. I don’t even know if it’s a cow in this version. Maybe it’s Harry/Marv throwing paint cans, pipes, and tool chests in a sort of reversal of the movie’s traps. I doubt that, though. Unless they were planning to bring back the arcade level but then ran out of time.
It really wouldn’t be hard to make a Home Alone game. Just have him in the house placing traps and then evading Harry and Marv or taunting them. Some of the traps sit there until Harry and Marv set them off. Some of the traps you have to activate yourself when Harry and Marv are in the right position. And maybe eventually Harry and Marv will get wise to the traps and you'll have to take a different approach, like with the paint cans and metal pipe in 2. It would be a lot like Polterguy. Or a survival horror without the actual horror. But instead, we just get platformers. At least this concept actually makes sense.
burning question: how old were you when you watched your first R-rated or equivalent movie?
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Date: 2024-12-27 07:55 pm (UTC)As for the question, it must have been Lawnmower Man when I was 10. Fucked me up. I'm still scared of it to this day.
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Date: 2024-12-27 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-12-31 07:33 pm (UTC)