Inside a Deli & Restaurant which share the same building, are divided down the middle by a simple wall, and are connected by a small hallway in the back. Walking into the Restaurant, I'm told a movie theater / bar are just behind the building. Taking the back exit, a dingy gray alleyway with torn newspapers shifting about in the wind and graffiti'd concrete walls greet me. I enter the plain metal doorway opposite the Restaurant exit.
This is no theater, but instead a dim recording studio with a large projection screen and sleek wood paneled floors. A young boy under my wardship and I take a seat, as a group of college musicians slowly prepare to score something to whatever will be coming up onto the projection screen. At the moment, only pre-WWII era newsreels are running on it. We quickly grow bored of watching the amateur musicians setting up, and head back to the Deli, as the restaurant is closing for the evening.
A line has grown inside the Deli, and becoming anxious, I have my ward keep my place in line. Feeling a need to return to the recording studio, I do as such.
There isn't a soul inside, and the lights are out. A six foot tall 16-bit eyeball monster quickly makes its presence known, as I am warped into a Super Scope Six Sequence (!), in which the monster is dispatched, but more and more goopey abominations seep up from the cave floor. Yes, the wood paneling gave way to cold rock, and I am soon drained of power. Making a quick escape, the restaurant door is now locked, forcing me to run out onto the street.
A Maniac Mansion interface filters in, as I slowly walk across four screens, each packed with a new, colorful monster. They morph in from mail boxes and storefront windows, and all devour or decapitate bystanders as I trudge by. Running back into the Deli, I see the line has not moved. I rush over to my ward, as he speaks to me by means of an 8-bit dialog box:
"Quick. Get the firehose." he says.
Then I wake up.
Splatterhouse & Zombies Ate My Neighbors with Side-Scrolling and Super Scope Six, essentially.
Once I fell in love in a dream and then I woke up and was pissed off all morning because the person in it didn't exist.
Many of mine end in some epic DuckTales adventure in which I capture the Legendary Emerald Jewell of Diamond Stone, only to wake up with my arms stretched out as if I were still holding the damned meal ticket.
