Weird Dreams

A memorable game for positive and negative reasons, Rainbird Software’s ‘Weird Dreams’ puts the player in control of a man in a dream-filled comatose state, brought about by a revenge attack from his girlfriend, who it turned out had been an alien all along. A puzzle game of sorts that mixes different genres, the main flaw of Weird Dreams is its over-ambition. The game must have looked brilliant on paper, to the extent that an entire unnecessary background story was written and included as a story book to accompany the game, but its poor execution results in a game that’s frustrating to play and often impossible to enjoy. On its release in 1989, the ...  Read the complete review

The idea behind this game came from a morning television show the name of which escapes me. It was one of those Saturday things aimed at kids anyway and Weird Dreams was the phone in game which they could take part in to win prizes. Well of course, in a clever piece of marketing they packaged it up and released it in time for Christmas one year...and it still bombed because it basically sucked. The problem is with this game, is that whilst it looks very nice and has some very interesting and innovative touches, it simply isnt very playable. Its too tough at first and then too easy and you'll waltz through the later levels. You start on the operating theatre ...  Read the complete review