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Robotnik was a key to the success of the Sonic franchise or anything! One of my best friends told me about this game when we were in elementary school and I was convinced he had made it up. When I finally laid eyes on the festering heap that is Awesome Possum , I was in utter disbelief, even as a year-old. They had really made a video game called Awesome Possum? The graphics are really this grainy? It has a heavy-handed environmental theme?

Truly, this was something to behold. Zombies Ate My Neighbors was definitely one of the most underrated games of its day. Good times had by all. Much like its football-minded predecessor, Mutant League Hockey wisely combined the popular gaming elements of professional sports and stylized mutant-on-mutant violence. Consisting of fictional leagues with teams names like the St.

For a 7-year-old who had little aptitude for sports, these games took the engaging elements of that elusive world competition, esotericism, war symbolism, human suffering and combined them with fantasy and humor — they felt every bit as well-crafted and detailed as the real world of sports that I felt disconnected from.

Also, if you get into a fight on the ice, both players get a penalty, but whoever gets knocked out receives a longer penalty for losing. Hell, you could even bribe the refs. Play a 90s hockey game and a 90s football game, and then tell me which holds the test of time better — hell, hockey games were better back then than they are now.

This game takes some serious dedication or use of the cheat code to complete. The game was popular enough that it got a sequel, Spot Goes to Hollywood. The second game was outsourced to Eurocom, and their take on the Cool Spot formula was a bizarre, dark piece of adverainment that still leaves me feeling puzzled. Not even the ending makes any sense. But I still kind of dig it overall? But if lack of story bothers you at all, the instruction manual lays it all out. Nonsensical plots aside, this game is freaking fantastic.

Cool Spot is approaching its 30th anniversary, yet I still find it worth my time to revisit once in a while.

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