Undimmed potential
In the mid-Eighties, there was one game I coveted above all others. The one that got away. My Moby-Dick, if you’ll excuse the expression. You’d be forgiven for not remembering this particular game – by all accounts, it received only a limited release – but you may remember that, years before Samba De Amigo, Donkey Konga, or Guitar Hero, it came bundled with its own unique controller. I’m talking about SurfChamp.
The original home-computer era wasn’t a big time for weird and wacky add-ons. The Nineties were the golden age for that spirit of wanton madness, when you could bulk out your Game Boy with so many extra bits of hardware that it ceased to be portable.