It's not a very "good" game, but it has it moments. The real reason for including it in the Game-a-day is that it's another double 80's thing. An 8-bit 80's game about a super 80's icon. Like Thundercats, and all other cool cartoons of the 80's, He-Man was created to sell toys. Actually, he started as a toy and the cartoon was made to sell more of him and his weird friends, like the skeleton with a six pack... No, wait, Skeletor was his enemy. For whatever reason, to sell toys, or whatever, He-Man became an icon of the 80's. The toys and cartoon were called "He-Man, and the Masters of the Universe". I don't know who the Masters were (They never explained that), but again 80's icon, so it doesn't matter. I guess the people who made "The Ilearth Stone" also felt He-Man was so good even if the game sucked people would buy it. It's not a good game as I said before. Clunky (my overused adjective to describe games that play...clunky), doesn't even get close to describing how bad the control of He-Man is. It's ugly how joyless the the joystick can be in this game. They might have made it a touch easier to control a super hero, or whatever He-Man is. A couple of things I do like about the game are the authentic He-Man score playing in the background, and the graphics, that while not amazing are still cool looking. That doesn't make up for the game play blunders however, and I can't see myself putting too much time into this game in the future. It's more of a nostalgic novelty game to play when you just want to feel some 80's goodness in your veins, and you don't want to listen to Rio again.
He-Man, The Ilearth Stone on Gamebase64
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