Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs (NES) Review

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. ;)