Home Alone

Remember the days when you could rent a whole boat load of games for only a buck? Yeah, those were the days, I always enjoyed the days my parents let me rent five or more games. That way you could rent some reliable favorites and take some risks going outside the box. I rented this game and it was an outside of the box one. I did not like the movie, so I am not sure why I thought I would like the game. Perhaps I thought it would be fun setting traps and avoiding the two burglars. Well it isn't. The game is basically the house, basement of house and tree house. The two burglars pursue you relentlessly, but not to fear you have traps! Well, not very good ones as all they are, are squares with pictures on them representing what they are and I guess you have to use your imagination on what they do. All they do in this game is momentarily stun the two crooks. I applaud the game for keeping the game like the movie and only having the two villains and not adding all the typical enemies found in video games of the era. One could easily see them adding rats and spiders here and I think they actually did that with the super Nintendo version of the game. However, there just is not enough to do in this thing to make it a true video game. I have played flash games that were more involved than this one. At least it was only a dollar to rent, this one is not the type of game you would want to own.