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What’s 20 megabytes, has awful graphics, awful sound, and is vaguely reminiscent of Super Mario Brothers 3?

Why it’s RunMan: Race Around The World of course! The website, you assume, is trying to be ironic. ‘The game can’t actually look like this, surely…’ But… well… it does.

The games visuals look like they were created in MS Paint. In fact, they probably were.

So it looks bad, and the sound effects are pretty awful. But the gameplay is actually quite good. You play as a little star-thing who runs around. Your job is just to make it to the other end of the level at the highest speed possible. The faster you go, the higher the score multiplier. You lose points for falling in holes and hitting enemies, just like in real life.

Continue reading RunMan: proof that shiny graphics are not required to make a good Time-Waster

RunMan: proof that shiny graphics are not required to make a good Time-Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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