Rainbow Walker
WITH ZIPPY, GEORGE AND BUN… OH, WAIT
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» Atari 8-bit » 1983 » Steve Coleman I’ve always had a soft spot for those games in which your goal is to completely paint over an area with your own colour. I think my earliest encounter was Slider for the Game Gear – better known to home computer owners as Skweek – before discovering the likes of Q*bert and Crush Roller. They’re not so common these days, but I get a lot of the same satisfaction from the Turf War mode in Splatoon 2, which takes that goal and implements it in a competitive third-person shooter framework. It looks fantastic when you can see an obvious win for your team from the overhead map.