Blizzard Game of the Week

I know what you're thinking: VGX, I've been thinking about BLIZZARD a lot this week for some reason, and I would like to know which BLIZZARD game I should play right now.

Listen: you need to know you are not alone. 

Lost Vikings 2 is a great game developed by Blizzard and released by Interplay in 1997. For some reason, the Sega Saturn, PC, and Sony Playstation versions of the game were released under a different title:

While Norse by Norsewest: The Return of The Lost Vikings is, in every measurable way, a better title, I can remember being twelve years old and confused about the differences between the two titles. As far as I could tell from reading the Wikipedia article and no further research, the PS/Saturn/PC release had re-done graphics and better sound, including voice acting. I guess that's fair.

In Lost Vikings 2, you play as three vikings who seem to have stolen future technology from somebody (I skipped the opening cutscene so I really don't know) and have to use their unique talents to solve puzzles in order to talk to a witch on the other side of the level. One viking has a lightsaber and that Wife-Arm from Bionic Commando, another one has rocket boots, and the third one has a shield and some type of gastrointestinal distress.

I just played this game for about five minutes just right now and let me tell you: pretty good.

Obviously the joke in this post is that Diablo III is the only game anyone cares about this week and I'm too poor to buy it so I'm dicking around with emulators. I thought it was funny at least.