Digital Review

The Blue Marlin

NES' The Blue Marlin is a fishing game in which you sit for long stretches in front of the television set, reel in the occasional fish, then sit again for long stretches in front of the television set. As if this weren't deadly enough, while you're perched in your video dinghy you're treated to an incessant, looped soundtrack of Japanese pseudo-jazz nonsense, the apotheosis of every tonal cliché in the history of video-game music. C-

Originally posted Oct 30, 1992 Published in issue #142 Oct 30, 1992 Order article reprints

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