Great experience... imagination required.

User Rating: 8.5 | Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! APL2
By TheL0NER | Review Date:
In 1988 when I was six, my father brought home our first video game. It was Deja Vu for his black and white Mac. I remember him putting the game in and hearing the gears in side the box churn ((Hmmmm....werrrrrr)). Then through narrative from my father, who did his best Bogart, we started sloothing around. I'll give it to the old man, he didn't soften the atmosphere or paraphrase any of the dialog...it was good dirty fun.
He and I never did solve the game together but later when it came out on the NES...a much tamer version...I dusted off the old Mac and went to town.
The movement of the game is slow and all of the first person aspects of the game are explained to you through text rather then just the scene in the picture...so with a little imagination you can get a whole different experience then you can with a modern day first person shooter. For instance, the smell of perfume is noted in a description of a certain area...how are you going to smell perfume in a modern day FPS? The closest game I can compare to Deja Vu in today's standard is Call of Cuthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I think anyone should give this game a shot. For me I think nostalgia has set in and curbed my review but you should be able to find Deja Vu on most Abandon ware sites.

Jack Vendetti
Private Eye, Ace Harding School of Sloothing
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