Review: Devolver Bootleg (PC)

Review by Harvard L.

Let’s set the scene. It’s 1993 – the SNES had just hit stores, and that means people are flogging off their old consoles. You chance upon a much-worn NES at a garage sale, along with a peculiar cartridge: “99 Games-in-one”. You’ve never seen this at your local game shop, so you buy it out of sheer curiosity, and as you hand over your spare change the homeowner flashes you a grin filled with malice, as if you’ve just bought a cursed monkey’s paw. Fast forward now. It’s 2002 – you’re browsing Geocities for Game Boy ROMs, trying to repopulate your collection after you accidentally downloaded a Trojan last month and had to wipe your Windows XP PC. Buried within a catalogue of awful movie tie-ins you find an odd title: “Pokemon Diamond and Jade”. That’s not a game you’ve heard of, you think. Now fast forward to June, 2019. Now you know what bootlegs are and what they mean, and Devolver Digital announces that it’s going to bootleg its own games, in a modestly priced anthology titled Devolver Bootleg.

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