Canabalt

Hey Recap, I wanted to ask you your opinion on this game:

http://adamatomic.com/canabalt/

It's a web game so you can give it a go right away if you want. It only takes like a couple of minutes to have one or two goes at it, and I can guarantee that you won't regret the time investment.

Now, I've posted a satirical piece about the game on my site (satirical of the people who have tried to review it really -- not of the game itself) and also some sarcastic comments in my forum (again directed at the game's clueless reviewers), but the actual game, apart from all the joking, is pretty damn good I think. It is of course a RETRO game, so one should not compare it to contemporary standards of complexity, of course -- but just imagine this game in an arcade in 1980 or 1985 or something. I have no doubt it would have been at the very least a popular title, if not indeed among the most popular. There are one or two fairly minor and easily addressed (in a revision) technical faults, and I will analyze them in my upcoming review at length, but despite them I must admit I am quite taken with the game. Even from an aesthetic perspective, in fact (ignoring the retardation of the game's "HD" mode...)

I would be very interested to hear what you make of all this.