The 12 months is 1998. You clutch your Game Boy Color, focusing in your fourth run of the Elite Four in Pokemon Blue, again propped in opposition to the sofa whereas your mother and father watch the season 4 finale of Frasier on the 32-inch “big-screen” CRT TV in your front room. It is a canon occasion, crystalized in your reminiscence, as you beat your creature-catching rival whereas Kelsey Grammer’s eternally befuddled psychiatrist will get romantically crushed by a post-Terminator 2 Linda Hamilton.

With a questionably necessary reboot of Frasier arriving thirty years later, now’s the proper time for an equally anachronistic Game Boy RPG for the unique sequence. And indie developer Edward La Barbera has delivered it. Frasier Fantasy is a bite-sized RPG following the beloved radio host as he putters round Seattle, lovingly crafted within the fashion of the Game Boy Color.

The graphics and sound don’t simply evoke the GBC, they’re really made for the {hardware} — you possibly can obtain and play it on one when you have the suitable flash cart. The remainder of us can play it on an emulator, and even higher, simply load all the sport in a browser window (noticed by Rock Paper Shotgun).

In Frasier Fantasy, you’ll make your approach throughout the well-known areas of the present, together with the geographically not possible Elliot Bay Towers condominium, the Cafe Nervosa, and the KACL radio station. Your objective: To do your radio psychiatry present, rid the condominium of your father and the true star, Eddie, and retrieve your vintage grape scissors earlier than internet hosting a cocktail party. The sport nails the unusual fusion of those cultural artifacts, supplying you with a whirlwind tour of the present’s forged interspersed with minigames and turn-based RPG battles. Frasier can make use of particular strikes like “Freudian Slap” or just drone his enemies to sleep with faux-posh psych patter.

The entire sport may be cleared in underneath an hour, and may simply be value it for the Frasier super-fan. Deep cuts, like a battle with Star Trek-obsessed coworker Noel and Niles’ never-seen spouse Maris in her sensory deprivation tank, present that that is actually a labor of affection. The ultimate boss, that includes a pale, frigid monster that makes Sephiroth seem like a pansy, is a specific spotlight.