#awesome possum kicks dr. machino's butt

[murdercide626]

"ENEMIES OF GAIA"

aka "Defilers of the Earth!"

aka "Awesome Possum's Hit List"

Hexxus (FernGully: The Last Rainforest)

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Dario Agger/"The Minotaur" (Marvel Comics)

Dr. Barbara Blight (Captain Planet)

King K. Rool (Donkey Kong Country)

Dr. Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot)

Montana Max (Tiny Toon Adventures)

Cyril Sneer (The Raccoons)

Capital B (Yooka-Laylee)

Rebecca Madison (Phantom 2040)

Hedorah (Godzilla)

Duke Nukem (Captain Planet)

Megatox (Sonic the Comic)

Diesel Weasel (Rick and Morty)

Fire Lord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Dr. Killemoff (Toxic Crusaders)

C. Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons)

Rufus Shinra (Final Fantasy VII)

Hoggish Greedly (Captain Planet)

Gruntilda Winkybunion (Banjo-Kazooie)

Porky Minch (Mother 3)

Fenton Sludge (Goof Troop)

Lawrence Limburger (Biker Mice from Mars)

Dr. Machino (Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt)

[tymime]

I'm designing Awesome Possum fan characters send help (I think it should be pretty obvious who the two bad guys are inspired by)

[greenyvertekins]

Awesome Possum Kicks dr. Machino's butt.

Sonic really was the character that launched a thousand lame expies in the 90s wasn't he?

Awesome Possum in particular always stood-out to me as mimicking Sonic without understanding what made the franchise so loved.

[akumaverse]

AWESOME POSSUM

First Appearance: Pre-Royal War Infinite #21

Dimension: Paradise

Allegiance: Hero

Awesome Possum was once your average possum, born to a loving family. His life was sweet and simple and would have stood that way until tragedy struck. Evil, chainsaw-wielding robots were clear-cutting the forest and affecting his friends and family. He played possum for a while to lure them to a false sense of security. What he would do he didn't plan but luckily two other animals also wanted to fight the robots. So the three together destroyed them and he came up with the name Awesome Possum. 

With his new name, he swore to protect nature, find out who was responsible for this, and literally kick their butt. And he travels to the big city while cleaning up the streets by putting them in their proper receptacle bins. That's when they found out the biggest source of pollution: Dr. Machino. So Awesome Possum traveled the world, cleaning up Machino's mess and making new animal friends. Eventually, this led to a one on one confrontation with the doctor and after a long fight, defeated him and kept his promise.

With Dr. Machino’s defeat led to a bigger push on environmental improvements for his planet. And as a reward, the people put his head on Mount Rushmore (via environmentally safe methods). Things were going great until Ristar arrived. He was desperate to find more fighters and reluctantly had to bring the Possum into Royal War Infinite. There, he fought as bravely as he could until Mecha Sonic killed him.

While Awesome Possum wasn’t the greatest hero, and sometimes did questionable things, but overall his heart was in the right place and he is currently living happily in Paradise.

Sprite Credit

Current version ripped from Awesome Possum Game

Fun Facts:

The first time I heard of this game was from a review by UrinatingTree. He currently does sports related videos now.

[robotnik-mun]

A little something for your nightmares.

Picture this if you will- Ken Penders writing a comic book adaptation... of THIS.

A regular match made in hell, no?

[mrmegamanfan]

This game is NOT awesome.

[bob-beaky]

The comic also claims Dr Frank N Stein was voted best mad scientist of 1993 which is clearly incorrect since “Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt” was released that year and Dr Machino is CLEARLY superior.

[glapplebloom]

Check the reading order to see how the other sides go as well as Credits.

In a move straight out of Smash Brothers, Mega Man, X, EXE, Volnutt and Starforce combiend their busters to fire a giant laser attacked that hit every opponent in that direction. His brother Blues looks on to see such a force. “Its amazing, isn't it.” a voice said. Proto Man turned around to see a variation of his brother, only wearing his scarf. “You told me that a hero is a man who knows he's free. And here we are now, surrounded by heroes fighting for said freedom.” Blues turns back to rejoin the fight. “Its the only thing that makes us alive.”

Gemel looked on at all the fighters. So many moves to copy. So much so that Metal Sonic's data within him is being crushed. “Hey, can you stop copying moves. Its getting cramp in here!” “I'm sorry, but there's so many new moves to see!” Then he notices another one of him fighting. “Hey! There's another me here too!” Then he got tackled by Emerl. But this one is the Gizoid made to destroy all. Gemel recovers and says “and Prototype me?” “Focus on beating him. I'm detecting Seven Chaos Emeralds within him!”

Havoc, Socket, and Zool are fighting alongside Sash Lilac, Spark the Electric Jester and Kyle & Lucy from Sunova. Bubsy looks at that group. “Man, those Sonic games inspired so many other franchises. Must be nice to be popular.” Bubsy stomps on Dr. Machino's head, destroying the machine body . “But us bad games still have something to offer.” The evil Doctor turned around, revealing a surprisingly big butt. “This one is for you old buddy.” Bubsy then proceeds to kick Dr. Machino's butt, just as Awesome Possum would have done.

The Powerpuff Girls are united, creating the Furious Fiery Feline to take out a large chunk of the crowd. The girls high five each other when they notice their younger selves. But with them is what seems to be a older Powerpuff Girl. “That's a blast from the past,” Buttercup told her older copies, “but wait till you see the Power of Four!” The four girls unite together to create a giant energy construct. This formed the Mighty Power of Sisterhood. The older Powerpuffs look on in awe. “We have got to try that with Bliss.”

Clockwork seems to be in trouble. His metal body is being controlled by Magneto. And despite all of his defenses against such attacks, the Mutant's Magnetism is too strong to fight off. Before Max Eisenhardt could crush him, Randy kicked him in the face. Now freed, the Broken King rose up and turned his Techno Garnet into the Raging Ocean. He then stabs Magneto in the chest. “I had that handled,” The Bad Clockwork proclaimed. Randy rolled his eyes “sure you did.” Randy jumps back into action ad the Broken King looks on in disgust.

Twilight sees her Prime forms fighting. When she was exiled to prove Spike is worthy to stay, she never expected to be the sole survivor of her world. Or that if the Twist of Fate went in her direction she would be a Princess. But now seeing her future self being an Alicorn in the same status as Celestia, it was almost too much to handle. Juliet runs up to her. “I'm so sorry you had to be spoiled like this. I wanted all this to be a surprise.” Twilight sighs. “Its alright. I've long accepted that I'm taking a different path than I should. But I would do it all over again for any of my friends.”

[elsquibbonator]

Eco-Tainment: Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt

Yes, you read that right. Today’s Eco-tainment review is for one of the most infamous video games of all time, a low-budget 1993 Sonic The Hedgehog knockoff. As befits such a game, it’s a platformer relatively short on story, but it’s notorious not only for being a blatant Sonic cash-in, but also for its obvious environmental themes. 

The story, to the extent that there is one, is that our titular Possum of Awesomeness is traveling around the world thwarting the evil Dr. Machino, who is the sort of mad scientist-cum-industrialist-cum-cum-logger villain endemic to 1990s environmental stories. Each level consists of Awesome Possum doing such things as picking up litter for points, destroying tree-cutting and oil-drilling robots, and the like. This culminates in a confrontation with Dr. Machino, a short, bald, cigar-smoking man-- and yes, Awesome Possum does, in fact, kick his butt. 

It’s easy to pick apart flaws in a game like this, or to mention what’s outdated. To do that would require more time than I have. Suffice to say, it falls victim to the same flaws as many other environmental works of its era, only with the added obnoxiousness of being a Sonic ripoff. I will say, however, that I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of research the writers put into the quizzes at the end of each level. But even these show the game’s age (one of them compares the amount of plastic Americans throw away to the size of the Twin Towers). Awesome Possum is a bad game, but it’s the interesting kind of bad. 

Awesome Possum was a misguided attempt to bring the environmentalism craze of the 1990s to video games, held back by being a Sonic the Hedgehog copy. 

[murdercide626]

“Can’t you see this pollution is good?”

Decided to redesign Dr. Machino from the Awesome Possum game.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[tymime]

Awesome Possum from the Sega Genesis game Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt Large parts of this were actually drawn in Photoshop- more than you might imagine       

[tehfootbath]

List of cheap licenses beneficial to the Amico.

With Bubsy as the baseline franchise that the Amico cannot afford, it is thought an amusement to consider those more in the price range of affordability.

Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt: Tommy is a known animal lover and vegan. Awesome is vaguely educational and better yet controls like trash no matter the controller.

Wild Woody: Much like the Amico's image, it's synergistic with being wildly inappropriate for children & families, is obnoxious, and relies on outdated jokes.

Scaler: Bringing back an obscure brand from the PS2 to a forgotten brand that most everyone forgot in the 90s. What could be better? 

Cooly Skunk: Something stinks, and it isn't the skunk. Why not latch onto another mascot platformer from the PSX?

Mohawk & Headphone Jack: As the primary architect of the Amico was a composer whose largest body of their works was from the 90s, why not celebrate the total technological irrelevancy of everything featured in this game?

Aero the Acrobat: It's a circus, this crazy thing! Why not pick a game which combines the worst of Sonic Speed with the non-intuition of a maze?

These are just some of a few suggested faces which could be obtained cheap as free. Best of all, they're rife for graphical butchering!

[thesplintering]

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[makctoys]

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[segasts]

DIRECTORY

each game is sorted left to right, top to bottom in the archive. Each date contains the following ranges:

2017/4: 3 Ninjas Kick Back - After Burner II

2017/3:  Air Buster -  Corporation

2017/2: Cosmic Carnage -  Flicky

2017/1:  Forgotten Worlds -  Madou Monogatari I

2016/12:  Magic Girl -  Pro Striker Final Stage

2016/11:  Psy-O-Blade -  Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage

2016/10:  Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety -  Thunder Force III

2016/9:  Thunder Force IV -  Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair 

2016/8:  Wonder Boy in Monster World - Zoop 

Browse games by year of release:

1988: 4 games

1989: 24 games

1990: 62 games

1991: 115 games

1992: 111 games

1993: 126 games

1994: 126 games

1995: 63 games

1996: 13 games

1997: 1 game

1998: 1 game

Additional tags:

#underrated: it’s not even necessarily a great soundtrack, but it’s better than you think. and you probably haven’t heard it before.

#good: it’s not perfect, but it’s still pretty darn good.

#rec: the best of the best. 

As this was my first project, I missed quite a few games that didn’t have their soundtracks ripped. Below the cut is a list of those, plus some recommendations based on what I have heard.  

key: 👌 = good 👍♥ = rec

16 Zhang Mahjong (MD, unl, nsfw)

688 Attack Sub (MD)

A Dinosaur's Tale (MD, sound test 48...50....too many good tunes to ignore.) 👌

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (MD)

Adventurous Boy: Mao Xian Xiao Zi (MD, unl) 👌

Andre Agassi Tennis (MD, might only have two songs?)

Aq Renkan Awa (MD, unl)

Art Alive! (MD, might only have a single song?)

Australian Rugby League (MD, weirdly trying to be dancey but not quite working. fascinating really.)

Awesome Possum Kicks Dr Machino's Butt! (MD)

Aworg (MD, seganet) 👌

Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II (MD)

Baby Boom (MD, prototype) 👌

Baby's Day Out (MD, prototype)

Barbie Super Model (MD)

Barbie Vacation Adventure (MD, unreleased)

Barkley Shut Up and Jam 2 (MD, interesting tunes but not necessarily a rip priority.)

Bass Masters Classic (MD)

BC Racers (32X)

Beastball (MD, unreleased)

Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Quest(MD)

Beauty and the Beast: Roar of the Beast (MD)

Best of the Best: Championship Karate (MD)

Bill's Tomato Game (MD, unreleased) 👌👌

Bill Walsh College Football (MD) 

Bill Walsh College Football 95 (MD) 

Blackthorne (32X)

Bomboy (MD, unlicensed)

Bonkers (MD)

Brian Lara Cricket (MD) 

Brian Lara Cricket 96 (MD) 

Brutal: Above the Claw (32X)

Bubsy II (MD)

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (MD)

Budokan: The Martial Spirit (MD)

Bulls versus Blazers and the NBA Playoffs (MD, also one for the lakers but it appears to be the same music-wise)

Burning Fists: Force Striker (Sega CD, prototype, has some FM tunes as well)

Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball (MD)

Captain Planet and the Planeteers (MD)

Centurion: Defender of Rome (MD)

Champions World Class Soccer (MD)

Championship Pool (MD, not great but ez to rip, including titles)

Chao Ji Da Fu Weng (MD, unl)

Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring Speedy Gonzales (MD, fast and silly, the GEMS quality is outshone by the fun) 👌

Clay Fighter (MD)

Cliffhanger (MD, seems to be pretty good and dancy afaict) 👌

Clue (MD)

College Football USA 96  (MD, sound test 65-124. the first is 👌👌 but the rest, not so much...)

College Football USA 97 (MD, sound test 65-124. the first two are good anyway...)

College Football's National Championship (MD)

College Football's National Championship II (MD, same as the first)

College Slam (MD, not bad)

Cosmic Spacehead (MD)

Crystal's Pony Tale (MD)

CutThroat Island (MD)

David Crane's Amazing Tennis (MD)

David Robinson's Supreme Court (MD) 👌

Davis Cup Tennis ~ Davis Cup World Tour

Death Duel (MD)

Desert Demolition Starring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote (MD)

Dial Q o Mawase! (MD, unl) 👌

Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops (MD, not bad actually...)

Doom (32X)

Double Clutch (MD)

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (MD)

Dragon's Lair: The Adventure Continues (MD, prototype)

Duke Nukem 3D (MD)

EA Hockey (MD)

ESPN Baseball Tonight (MD)

ESPN National Hockey Night (MD)

ESPN Speed World (MD)

ESPN Sunday Night NFL (MD)

Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing (MD)

Ex-Mutants (MD)

F-117 Night Storm (MD, nice sound design) 👌

F-22 Interceptor: Advanced Tactical Fighter (MD, the most chill music for a fighter)

Family Feud (MD)

Fantasia (MD)

Fantastic Dizzy (MD)

Feng Kuang Tao Hua Yuan (MD)

Feng Shen Ying Jie Chuan (MD)

Férias Frustradas do Pica-Pau (MD)

Fever Pitch Soccer (MD)

Fifa International Soccer (MD, you can tell it was Jeff van Dykes early work. groovy!) 👌

FIFA Soccer 95 (MD)

FIFA Soccer 96 (MD, 32X) 👌

FIFA 97: Gold Edition (MD, house music!) 👍♥

FIFA Road to World Cup 98 (MD)

Flash Point (MD, unreleased)

Foreman For Real (MD, thick) 👍♥

Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball (MD, not bad)

Fun 'n' Games (MD)

Funny World & Balloon Boy (MD, unl)

Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (MD, its ok but super easy to rip...with titles!)

Generations Lost (MD)

GO-NET (MD, has at least one song)

Golf Magazine: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples (32X) 👌

Goofy's Hysterical History Tour (MD, why is track 86 so good)

Greatest Heavyweights (MD, groovy) 👍♥

Hard Drivin' (MD)

HardBall! (MD, unl)

HardBall 3 (MD, unl) 

HardBall 94 (MD) 

HardBall 95 (MD) 👌

Haunting Starring Polterguy (MD)

Hei Tao 2: Super Big 2 (MD, unl, pretty ok! see sound test 12)

Home Alone (MD, easy to rip but not too great...)

Home Alone 2 (MD, check out sound test 07)

Hua Mu Lan: Mulan (MD, unl)

Huan Le Tao Qi Shu: Smart Mouse (MD, unl)

Hyokkori Hyoutanjima: Daitouryou wo Mezase! (MD)

IMG International Tour Tennis (MD, one song?)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (MD) 

Instruments of Chaos Starring Young Indiana Jones (MD, only tune 4 is worth ripping imo) 

International Rugby (MD) 

Ishido: The Way of Stones (MD, one song...)

It Came from the Desert (MD, unreleased)

Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings (MD) 

J.League Pro Striker Kanzenban (MD) 👌 

Jammit (MD) 👍♥ 👍♥ 

Jelly Boy (MD, unreleased)

Jerry Glanville's Pigskin Footbrawl (MD) 

Jiu Ji Ma Jiang II: Ye Yan Bian (MD, unl)

Joe Montana Football (MD) 

Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football (MD)

Jordan vs Bird (MD) 

Judge Dredd (MD)

Justice League Task Force (MD, its no SoR but its dancey) 👌

Kawasaki Superbike Challenge (MD) 

Kick Off 3: European Challenge (MD)

La Russa Baseball 95 (MD) 👌

Ling Huan Daoshi (MD, unl, shares music with Magic Girl) 

Lobo (MD, unreleased, not bad!)

Long (MD, unl, claims to have music but i hear no sound?)

M-1 Abrams Battle Tank (MD)

Ma Jiang Qing Ren: Ji Ma Jiang Zhi (MD, unl)

Ma Qiao E Mo Ta: Devilish Mahjong Tower (MD, unl)

Madden NFL '94 (MD)

Madden NFL '95 (MD)

Madden NFL '96 (MD, not bad)

Madden NFL '97 (MD)

Madden NFL '98 (MD, same as 97)

Mario Andretti Racing (MD)

Mario Andretti Hockey (MD)

Math Blaster: Episode 1 (MD)

Medal City (MD)

Mega SWIV (MD)

MegaMind (MD, short and simple but its so nice) 👍♥ 

MegaNet (Brazil) (MD)

Meng Huan Shui Guo Pan: 777 Casino (MD, really not bad besides the instrumentation...)

Mickey's Ultimate Challenge (MD)

MiG-29 Fighter Pilot (MD)

Mike Ditka Power Football (MD)

MLBPA Baseball (MD)

Monopoly (MD)

Motocross Championship (32X)

Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad (MD, unreleased) 👌

Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing (MD)

Mutant League Hockey (MD)

NBA Action '94 (MD) 👌 

NBA Action '95 Starring David Robinson (MD, holy funk) 👍♥ 

NBA All-Star Challenge (MD) 👌

NBA Hang Time (MD) 👍♥ 

NBA Jam - Tournament Edition (32X, has a PWM track unseen on the MD versions)

NBA Live 98 (MD)

NBA Showdown '94 (MD, has sound test) 👍♥ 

NCAA Final Four Basketball (MD)

NCAA Football (MD)

Newman-Haas IndyCar Featuring Nigel Mansell (MD)

NFL 98 (MD, even has a titled sound test!) 👌 

NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (MD)

NFL Quarterback Club (MD, 32X)

NFL Sports Talk Football '93 Starring Joe Montana (MD)

NHL 94 (MD, for some reason this chill Hubbard music really works for me) 👌 

NHL 95 (MD)

NHL 96 (MD, activ-8 yall ready for this)

NHL 97 (MD)

NHL 98 (MD, same music as 97)

NHL Hockey (MD)

NHLPA Hockey 93 (MD)

Normy's Beach Babe-O-Rama (MD)

Oh Mummy Genesis (MD)

Olympic Gold (MD)

Olympic Summer Games (MD)

Out of this World /  Another World (MD)

Outlander (MD, dance tunes!) 👌

Paperboy (MD)

Pelé! (MD)

Pelé II: World Tournament Soccer (MD) 👌 

Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors (Sega CD, unreleased)

Pete Sampras Tennis (MD, one song?)

PGA Tour Golf (MD)

PGA Tour Golf II (MD)

PGA Tour Golf III (MD)

PGA European Tour (MD)

PGA Tour 96 (MD, only 2 songs? same tunes as III)

Phantom 2040 (MD)

Pirates! Gold (MD)

Pit-Fighter (MD)

Power Monger (MD)

Primal Rage (MD)

Primal Rage (32X)

Premier Manager (MD) 

Premier Manager 97 (MD)

Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame (MD, unreleased)

Psycho Pinball (MD)

Putty Squad (MD, unreleased)

R.B.I. Baseball 3 (MD)

R.B.I. Baseball 4 (MD)

R.B.I. Baseball '93 (MD, sound test 5 is ace. the rest is meh)

R.B.I. Baseball '94 (MD, see below)

R.B.I. Baseball '95 (32X, same as 94.) 👌

Ransei no Hasha (MD)

Revolution X (MD)

Risk (MD)

Road Blasters (MD, very fm but not bad yo) 

Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball (MD, only a few non-jingles but theyre nice ok) 👌

Rugby World Cup 95 (MD)

Sampras Tennis 96 (MD)

San Guo Zhi V (MD, unl, a port of a saturn game with a surprisingly strong soundtrack) 👌 

Sangokushi IV (32X)

Scholastic's The Magic School Bus: Space Exploration Game (MD, this falls just short of good...but i dig the arrangement. track 2 and 4 esp.) 👌 

Scooby-Doo Mystery (MD)

Scrabble (MD, unreleased)

SeaQuest DSV (MD)

Sesame Street Counting Cafe (MD. brunch/desert is a jam yo)

Shanghai II - Dragon's Eye (MD)

Shi Jie Zhi Bang Zheng Ba Zhan - World Pro Baseball 94 (MD, unl)

Slam: Shaq vs. the Legends (MD, prototype, single song.)

Slaughter Sport (MD)

Soul Star X (32X, prototype)

Spider-Man (Acclaim) (MD. interesting music at least...)  👌????

Spider-Man: Web of Fire (32X)

Spirou (MD)

Star Control (MD, unl, only one song)

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator (32X)

Star Wars Arcade (32X)

Starflight (MD)

Steel Talons (MD)

Stone Protectors (MD, unreleased. pretty alright + easy to rip. note to self get track 8 and 9.) 

Summer Challenge (MD, unl)

Super Battleship: The Classic Naval Combat Game (MD)

Super Kick Off (MD) 👌

Swamp Thing (MD, prototype, only one song)

Sword of Sodan (MD)

Syndicate (MD. already have sega cd version)

T-Mek (32X)

Taiwan Daheng (MD, unl)

Taz in Escape from Mars (MD)

Taz-Mania (MD)

Team USA Basketball (MD, one song and several anthems afaict. i dig the groove tho) 👌 

TechnoClash (MD)

Technocop (MD)

Tecmo Super Hockey (MD)

Tecmo Super NBA Basketball (MD)

Telebradesco Residência (MD, unl, might only have the intro song?)

Test Drive II: The Duel (MD, unl)

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (MD)

The Berenstain Bears' Camping Adventure (MD) 

The Chaos Engine (MD) 👍♥ 

The Chaos Engine 2 (MD, prototype) 👌 

The Death and Return of Superman (MD)

The Incredible Crash Dummies (MD)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (MD, this is easy to rip so why hasnt it been?) 👍♥ 

The Pagemaster (MD)

The Smurfs Travel the World (MD)

Theme Park (MD)

Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (MD)

Time Killers (MD)

Timecop (Sega CD, unreleased) 👌 

Tintin in Tibet (MD, a few good tunes among the GEMS)

TNN Bass Tournament of Champions (MD, surprisingly decent. 1 2 rip.) 

TNN Outdoors Bass Tournament '96 (MD)

Total Football (MD)  👌

Triple Play 96 (MD, almost a perfect soundtrack...might be worth a rec anyway)  👌 

Troy Aikman NFL Football (MD)

True Lies (MD)

Two Tribes: Populous II (MD, doesn’t appear to have music?)

Ultimate Soccer (MD, might only have one song?) 👌 

Ultraman (MD)

Unnecessary Roughness '95 (MD)

Urban Strike (MD, unripped but worth ripping imo!) 👌 

Virtua Hamster (32X, prototype)

Wacky Races (MD, unreleased)

Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio (MD) 👍♥ 

Warlock (MD)

WarpSpeed (MD, unl)

Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars (MD)

Whac-a-Critter (MD, unl)

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego (MD) 

Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego (MD)

WildSnake (MD, unreleased)

Winter Challenge (MD)

Winter Olympic Games (MD, has a sound test too)  👌

World Championship Soccer II (MD) 

World Series Baseball (MD, probably the best of this series, still only one song though) 

World Series Baseball '95 (MD) 

World Series Baseball '96 (MD)

World Series Baseball '98 (MD)

World Series Baseball Starring Deion Sanders (32X, possibly only one song?)

WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (32X)

X-Men: Mind Games (32X, prototype) 👍♥ 

X-Perts (MD, one song and lots of drone SFX)

Xenon 2: Megablast (MD)

Ya Se Chuan Shuo (MD, unl) 👌 

Yang Jia Jiang - Yang Warrior Family (MD, unl) 👌 

Yogi Bear - Cartoon Capers (MD)

Zany Golf (MD)

Zhuo Gui Da Shi - Ghost Hunter (MD, unl)

Zombie High (MD, prototype, shares a tune with Crue Ball)

plus a few seganet games that i missed

[murdercide626]

Awesome Possum

… Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt!

So, I recently bought this game (yeah, with real currency. don’t you judge me!), and I thought I’d give my two cents.

I’ve played through it a couple times on easy mode (the default setting), and I gotta say… I don’t think it’s all that bad. Definitely not a highlight for the Genesis/Mega Drive, that’s for sure! But I personally don’t think it deserves all the bile people typically throw at it. Then again, I’ve suspected for quite a while that I may just have a high tolerance for b.s., so take what I say with a grain of salt.

One of the most commonly heard complaints I’ve heard regarding this game is that Awesome Possum is way too chatty to the point of aggravation. But what most don’t mention is that there’s a voice setting in the options menu that actually lets you adjust how often he speaks. You can even turn off the feature altogether, so that complaint is pretty moot. Don’t get me wrong, he can definitely get annoying, which is why I only play the game with the second-to-highest setting, which I find tolerable.

Then there’s the controls. Yeah, I agree the controls and hit-detection are a bit wonky. But during my two complete playthroughs, I can honestly say I had hardly any trouble at all navigating the levels and hitting targets. Though there were a couple incidents where I passed through a platform or enemy, but that happened so rarely it’s hardly worth noting. That said, avoid the speed power-up at all costs! If you can manage that, you shouldn’t have too much trouble. lol

And of course there’s the fact that the game is a shameless rip-off of both the plot and gameplay style of the Sonic series, which, yeah, it definitely is! But it’s just different enough to be a somewhat unique experience.

As for the ham-fisted environmentally-conscious plot, it just oozed ‘90s sensibilities, and its narmy qualities were actually oddly charming to me.

So, yeah, it’s a pretty okay game, imho. Just not something I would recommend buying, unless you’re an impulsive, retro-game-obsessed weirdo like me. lol

And despite all his cockyness and self-aggrandizing, I actually think Awesome is pretty gosh darn cute! ^_^

I also really liked a couple of the game’s enemy designs, which I’ll detail below:

The first enemies you encounter are these deforestation robots. Their designs are extremely basic as far as humanoid robots go, but I find them to be pretty charming. And the way they just haphazardly run around with chainsaws just looks so goofy! And there’s also these smaller models which wield handsaws. They’re so small that they’re actually shorter than Awesome, and they’re adorable! X3

Later in the game, there are these bear-trap-headed, dog-like robots that relentlessly pursue you, and they jump if you’re currently airborne or on a higher platform.

In the final levels of the game (the so-called “Fortress of Garbage”) you encounter these ghoulish, toxic muck monsters! Aside from the bosses, they’re the only enemies in the game that aren’t entirely mechanical. As such, they’re also the only enemies that don’t explode when you defeat them. Instead, they melt into the ground in a mildly disturbing manner. I love them!

There are many more types of enemies throughout the game, of course. These three are just my favorites.

Then, there’s the bosses:

Dr. Machino and his minions!

Unfortunately, none of the bosses, besides Machino himself, have names (that I know of). Oh well.

The first boss is this hulking cyborg outfitted specifically for deforestation purposes. As you can see, his left hand is a circular saw, his right hand a flamethrower, and his lower body has been replaced with tank treads. This brings up one of the reasons I like this game: rather than just throwing mindless automatons (and the aforementioned muck creatures) your way, you actually face off against cyborgs too! A nice little detail about this guy specifically is that, taking into account his asymmetrical design, he has unique left and right-facing sprites.

The boss of the undersea caverns is by far the least interesting. Just what appears to be some guy in a deep-sea diving suit with a harpoon gun (that shoots tridents). Although he does explode like the other bosses when you defeat him, so I guess he must be a cyborg of some kind. Or maybe even a robot? Eh.

The boss of the arctic is this Jason-Voorhees-looking guy who wields a giant wrench and zips around on ice skates. A surprisingly frustrating fight!

The penultimate boss of the game is this gas mask wearing guy who flies around in a little machine that constantly produces toxic gas, which he also shoots at you as projectiles. On my crappy TV, I actually interpreted the gas mask as being a ghoulish green face!

Finally, the main villain of this whole affair: Dr. Machino! Though his design is kinda plain, I really like him if only for the fact that he’s a mad scientist character who’s also a cigar-chomping, corporate fat-cat caricature, which you don’t see often. His mechanical body is also kinda spiffy. His body is outfitted with a flamethrower, extendable hands, and a missile launcher concealed in his chest. This guy is definitely the cheapest boss in the game and requires more luck than skill to defeat, so you had better have a lot of lives saved up! But when you finally do defeat him, his body explodes only to reveal that the doctor was actually much smaller than he appeared to be and was actually piloting a mechanical suit all along! Honestly, that just makes him all the more endearing to me! ^_^

After you triumph over the dastardly scientist, you are treated to an animation of what was promised in the game’s title: that being Awesome Possum booting Machino in the backside, right into the landfill below!

Thus ends the doctor’s Captain-Planet-style shenanigans!

Hooray for Earth! And the rain forest… And dolphins… and… stuff…