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Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs (NES) Review

by Spoony on May 8, 2009 · View Comments

Bite-sized version is here.

The city is in chaos. A new drug lord has taken over, flooding the streets with Colombian cocaine. It’s not safe to set foot outside your door because of the roving gangs of lawless, heavily-armed, desperate criminals. Heck, it’s not even safe inside your door because of a sudden, cataclysmic plague of deadly, coked-up snakes infesting the city tenements!

Only Harry Callahan can put an end to this crime wave. He’s officially off the case, but trust me, he’s had it with these motherf*cking snakes in this motherf*cking game.

Edit: Sorry that the mouse pointer is visible in many of the shots. I was a little surprised by it myself.

I do use an emulator to capture footage, and the save states are invaluable in getting specific moments, but actually you would have seen the mouse pointer even if I’d gone the other route and recorded straight off the console. Weird, I know, but the video capture software I use for both has advanced to the point where it will record the pointer and pull-down menus. It can be a little annoying for console games, but it might have made Phantasmagoria a little more interesting.

Anyway, I regret the mistake, but not enough to play the game again to get more footage. ;)

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  • david86
    "no wonder everyone wants this guy dead. He runs in and wrecks your goddamn house!"
  • notyoursavior78
    "SURPRISE! Shitty NES game!!!" hahahaha I haven't seen some of these newer reviews since they came out. I watch his really old stuff on youtube still fairly often, but the past few months I've been going through his videos again here and now commenting. Spoony/Noah rocks, but we all know that anyway.
  • chris
    hell yeah, journey playing in the background
  • im actually bot so i dont have
    those graphics look pretty good for a nes
  • Brendoz
    This is one of my favorite reviews but i so dearly hope he will finish the review sometime... :P
  • Wubby
    Seeing Spoony dance to Kriss Krosses - Jump always puts a smile on my face.
  • Saturn
    "Go find a pimp and jump up and down in front of him" is, in all honesty, my single favorite line in all of your videos ever. Just hearing it makes me laugh hysterically no matter what kind of mood I'm in. Spoony, if you at any time recieve a late Christmas gift from me, it's mostly a thank you for that one line.
  • PhoeniXdown
    I find it kinda funny just how many people see the ending as a Sopranos' reference. I mean, yeah, it's the same thing, but that's also how the first stage ended. It went on for a bit after the boss, then BAM, all over.
  • Jamal2504
    This is my favorite Spoonyone review. I love the Solid Snake cameo and the old Kriss Kross reference. Spoony's the man!
  • Nick Turek
    is my cpu the only one that ends the review at 22:11
  • nick
    THIS.IS.DIRTH.HARRY!!!!.AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
  • Toriyama
    soo.. didja finish the chilli dog?
  • Dragonqueen
    can someone explain to me what Dirty Harry had to do with the Sopranos ending? And I think dirty Harry looks alot like Johnny Cage
  • Dragonqueen
    can someone explain to what Dirty Harry had to do with the Sopranos ending? And I think dirty Harry look alot like Johnny Cage
  • ChrisXR
    Clever ending. :)
  • Demonolator
    Great Review!!!!!! Spoony one u are amazing!
  • Droopy Felon
    I hear "Dont Stop Believing" in the background!
  • mark
    lol that game sucked when i played it

    journylol
  • alex
    yeah, great review! really like your rants where you actually show footage of the game itself and not just talk about it :) dirty dancing was the best so far, lmao!
  • apitapi
    One of your best reviews ever xD you should capture gameplay, show it and shout at it more often on other reviews xD like samurai zombie nation, bayou billy and the robin hood game
  • jjm
    it called war against drugs because thats what its call on the PAL version, also the ff8 doll in the backround is fan donated
  • matthew
    he probay ended it after he said level 2 because its the same damn thing all over again.
  • looney1023
    are you gonna continue the review?
  • Dave Sigma
    Took me a second or two to get the ending joke but then hilarity ensued.
  • Mediego
    Oh, god damn it. That's why I hate the sopranos. Who wants to listen to someone only for them to cut out in mid sent-
  • Mr. Rubino
    You think the cars are an obscure reference? How 'bout "Play Misty for Me"?
    Chester A. Bum sure has had a lot of relatives popping up over the last few months.
  • cerealguy500
    Yep, I have got this game,and it does suck.
  • a guy doing nothing
    waiiiit a second!!

    are...are those seifer, ranowa and squall dolls in the background?!?!? no.. NO that's not true! that's impossible!
  • Massiah Jones
    I love this review, but couldn't help but notice, were you listening to journey whilst recording the segments infront of the camera?
  • Daray Joad
    I love the part with Solid Snake. And the "GOD FUCK!" right before it.
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