One day, I was computer-walking through the load of MAME (that's old arcade games on your PC) shizzle I'd just downloaded, and discovered a file called "Appoooh!!". "Hmmm," I thought, "what could this be?" I double-clicked it, as one does to run such a file, and was extremely confounded by its contents...
From the title screen I gathered it was some sort of Japanese wrestling game. Great. But I gave it a chance anyway, and selected a character called "A. Giants", who apparently weighed over 400 pounds and had incredibly long arms. Possibly based on the legendary Giant Haystacks, I seemed to do quite well against the weird blobby black man I was fighting.
But in a later round, he pulled out the big guns. HE OCCASSIONALLY BIT MY FACE! ARRRRGH! My choice of wrestler was no match for this cannibalistic gingerbread man-lookalike (unless he wasn't a gingerbread man-lookalike and actually was made of gingerbread, which means he wasn't a cannibal because gingerbread men and humans are different specieses. Perhaps he was a failed science experiment conducted by A. Giants, and wanted to get revenge in the wrestling ring), and I lost. But I didn't go away empty-handed, I learnt that you can't take jellymen for granted.
I've never played the game again, for a number of reasons: so that I don't destroy the precious memories I have of this probably quite rubbish game being good; because I have a very short attention span for old games; and, um, something else.
