Abobo’s Big Adventure
Abobo’s Big Adventure is a Side-scroll, Beat ‘em up, Single-player and Multiplayer Fighting video game created by I-Mockery. The game introduces Abobo, the boss character from the Double Dragon franchise, traversing through the environments of several games to rescue his son. The main objective of the player as Abobo is to advance through a set of levels. The game is divided into eight different sub-games that revolve around one another, and each acts as a homage to the specific game such as Double Drabobo, Urban Chabobo, Super Mabobo, Balloon Abobo, and more. In the game, the player has a range meter that increases when the player hits enemies and decreases when receives hit. The story follows the kidnapping of a boy, who is the son of Abobo. Most of the game’s levels are linear, introducing several nods to other NES properties with their foes and layout. The game rewards with points to the player and increases the level difficulty.
#1 Shakedown: Hawaii
Shakedown: Hawaii is a Pixel Graphics, Action-Adventure, Retro-style, Top-down, and Single-player video game, offering the similar gameplay to Grand Theft Auto (2004), developed and published by Vblank Entertainment, Inc. The game offers the open world environment and the player steps into the protagonist’s role with an aim to explore the world from a top-down perspective and complete a set of missions to advance. It parodies huge corporation, white collar crimes and more. As the protagonist, the player can move across the environment, use a set of weapons to face rivals and smash them to earn money which can be used to unlock further content. The game comes with increasingly difficult, and the player will face challenging enemies upon reaching higher levels. During gameplay, the player interacts with other characters and pick power-ups to increase the shooting ability. The player is tasked to create a legitimate corporation via open world missions, shakedown, sabotage, and more. With prominent features, top-down action, open missions, and original soundtracks, Shakedown: Hawaii is one of the best games as compared to other of the same genres.
#2 Retro City Rampage
Retro City Rampage deals with Action-Adventure, and Open World gameplay elements developed and published by Vblank Entertainment. The game serves as the parody of retro video games and 80s and 90s pop culture, as well as offering the similar gameplay to Grand Theft Auto. It takes place in the city of Theftropolis in 1985 and the player steps into the role of the protagonist, a thug, who is hired as a henchman of a huge crime syndicated controlled by Jester. After three years, during the bank heist which is gone wrong, the player runs into the time travelling telephone booth, which he then steals from its boss. As the story of the game proceeds, the telephone booth flings the player forward an indeterminate set of time to the year 20XX. Upon reaching, the telephone both breaks down and a man appears named Doc Choc in his own time travelling vehicle and saves the player. Now, the player has to gather the rare parts required to repair the telephone time booth with Doc Choc, while discovering several 80s video games.