In the early nineties, gaming genius Capstone gained the license to the Saturday Night Live-based hit comedy movie of the same name and created Wayne’s World the video game. It was ported to many formats, all developed by different companies. While the game itself was not necessarily a top ten play, the DOS version was the best of all available ports in terms of cleaner graphics and overall game play. It is primarily a puzzle solving game in the third person perspective.
The characters in the game, Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, resemble Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey, the original stars of the show.
In the early nineties, gaming genius Capstone gained the license to the Saturday Night Live-based hit comedy movie of the same name and created Wayne’s World the video game. It was ported to many formats, all developed by different companies. While the game itself was not necessarily a top ten play, the DOS version was the best of all available ports in terms of cleaner graphics and overall game play. It is primarily a puzzle solving game in the third person perspective.
The characters in the game, Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, resemble Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey, the original stars of the show. The user switches between these two characters throughout the game. (It is possible to switch at any time.) Wayne and
Garth are hosting a charity event with a pizza theme. The charity benefited will actually be them, since the money they raise will be used to save their failing television show. A stiff, education-oriented Chicago executive producer is trying to buy out their cable access and ruin the show. The point and click quests and adventures that the couple will embark upon all involve rescuing their television show directly (such as hiring people to help on the set, joining a biker gang for popularity or collecting items that will repair television cameras), organizing the pizza-thon (by baking pizzas), or collecting more cash (like playing babe jeopardy).
Throughout all of these missions, the user will see small clips and hear many sound bytes from the actual movie. All of the Wayne and Garth classic catch phrases can be heard, making the sound one of the best aspects of the game for fans of the movie. Both “excellent” and “not” are popular noises, and each character can occasionally be heard ordering the other to “party on.”
There are a total of five levels filled with puzzles, most of which are pretty easy to solve. The jumping, like with all pixilated games, is a little bit tricky, but the user will quickly learn to compensate, lest they hear “not worthy, not worthy” as one of the characters falls to his death. The interface is point and click, giving the game a short learning curve, and making it easy to master quickly.
In summary, Wayne’s World is loosely based on the movie of the same title, but does feature the characters from the movie, including some “excellent” sound bytes. The game play is decent enough and the graphics are okay for a game of this age. The puzzles are not too difficult to be frustrating, and most users, especially fans of the ridiculous movie or of Saturday Night Live, should greatly appreciate the predicaments that Wayne and Garth find themselves in. Party On, Dude!
