Lazy Jones (Commodore 64)
Developed By:David Whittaker

You gotta love the Commodore 64. I think it has my vote for the best “video game system” of all time, and the reason is because of games like this. It didn’t take a huge video game company to produce a game for the C64, in fact, one person could make a game if they had a bit of technical know-how and an interesting idea. Actually, even if you didn’t have an interesting idea you could make a game, and it might even turn out to be really fun. This was one of the cool things about the Commodore 64, it allowed people to experiment and to be creative, and it resulted in games like Lazy Jones.

Lazy Jones is a very simple game that doesn’t really have a point to it. It’s bizarre, it’s addictive, and I don’t really know where it came from, but it’s just fun!

You are this strange little guy with a big nose (I assume you play the role of Lazy Jones himself) and you walk around a hotel. Your goal (if you can call it one) is to avoid the strange people (and carts) roaming the halls and go into each room of the hotel. Inside each room is a different arcade game that you play for a short period of time. The arcade games are all really simple; some of them are ripoffs of real arcade games such as Space Invaders, while others are just plain bizarre, such as “The Turk” where you have to shoot a fork into turkeys as they come down a conveyor belt before they fall into a garbage can at the end, and you also have to avoid having your fork hit by a clock that is bouncing around the screen. There are also a few rooms in the hotel that don’t contain arcade games, instead they are a broom closet, a bathroom, and a bedroom. These rooms have no point to them. You walk into them, and then walk out again, except for the bedroom where you lie down and sleep for a minute and have a “Lazy Nightmare”. Weird stuff!!

Grab yourself a Commodore 64 emulator and check out this game immediately. I highly recommend it. You can have competitions with your friends to see who can get the highest scores on each of the games, and while you’re doing it you can laugh at how absolutely pointless and stupid this game is! — Sean