Amazing graphics, lots of challenge, loads of longevity. Wacky Races is a marvel to look at and all of the environs are suitably garish – although the dreaded slowdown does rear its ugly head every now and then, but it’s nowhere near as bad as that seen in Exhibition of Speed. When you strip all the aesthetics away, Wacky Races is a ‘kart’ game, with loose handling, loads of suitably wacky characters (all from the cartoon series) and weapons dotted about the track that you can use to hinder the progress of your enemies. ![]() Oh, and the brilliant voice samples and sound effects deserve a mention, too. I suppose the most striking thing about Wacky Races though, are the superb cell-shaded graphics. ![]() It’s about as close as you’re gonna get to something like Diddy Kong Racing on the DC, in that you start the game by driving around a small ‘hub’ level and must drive into the different areas of the map to access races on tracks in that particular theme. As far as licensed games go though, Wacky Races has got to be one of the best ever. I was never really a fan of the Wacky Races cartoons to be honest, although Dastardly and Muttley are truly legendary creations. Also – why does the camera need to switch to a 3rd person, spinning-around-your-plane view when you do manage to drop a bomb? Where you can still control the plane? So you can inadvertently smash your plane into the sea/floor because you couldn’t see where you were going? Genius that. And why you have to press TWO buttons at the same time to drop a bomb is a question only the developers can answer. The pace is sedentary, the graphics completely average (and very bargain basement), the sound totally pathetic. The thing about Iron Aces is that it’s totally unremarkable. This being WWII and all, there are no magic homing missiles – just machine guns and bombs, so shooting down enemy planes relies more on your own skill than in Deadly Skies where you have fire and forget missiles at your behest. So you hop into your fighter plane, take to the skies and dish out some pain. And it’s up to you to save the poor old defenseless British from the ever advancing Axis of Evil. Anyway, you play an unnamed young pilot in – as ever – the US Airforce. So England becomes ‘Trincer,’ Germany becomes ‘Blocken,’ Japan is ‘Yamato,’ and the US is renamed ‘Valiant.’ WHY? Surely just setting the game in 1940s Europe would have been sufficient – why go to all the trouble of making up some half-arsed, contrived story to go along with a WWII game? Surely the REAL War is good enough as a backdrop? The mind well and truly boggles. For me though, the biggest disappointment in Dragon Riders is that YOU DON’T GET TO RIDE ON A DRAGON! You build up stats for your character you get different outfits you engage in very poorly done hand to hand combat you go on sub-quests that involve finding things for lazy NPCs. Dragon Riders is essentially your bog standard westernized RPG. Quite how you will achieve this by wondering around sparsely populated Kokiri Village knock-offs is unclear, but that’s the aim anyhow. The world is under threat from some enigmatic evil thing called Thread and it’s down to you, with the help of your dragon, t’ save t’ world, laddy. ![]() You play a titular Dragon Rider who lives in a magical noddy-land type place called – you guessed it! – Pern. I realize that they’re both based on books by totally different authors before some green-toothed librarian comes on here to engage in some pathetic argument, but the fact remains. Anyway, Eragon and Dragon Riders could quite easily been separated at birth. There have been 6 likes from 6 votes on this game.Anyone seen Eragon? You know, that shit Lord of the Rings wannabe? I have – and it’s poo. To save your game: hover over the emulator screen and use the icons to save your progress.ĭown arrow icon (save), Up arrow icon (load). Please click inside the screen to activate the controls The game features many levels to play and is an overall good port to the classic arcade. The objective of the game is to clear the screen from all the bubble spheres without having any bubble cross the bottom line of the screen. This version of the game is for Super Nintendo Entertainment System and was released at a later date at the year 1995. Step back to the past and play one of the most popular classic bubble shooter game in the entire history of arcade gaming – Bust-A-Move! Match three or more of the same colored spheres / bubbles and complete all levels.īust-A-Move (also known as Puzzle Bobble) is a 1994 bubble shooter game introducing the characters from the platforming arcade game Bubble Bobble.
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