#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.”

[emperorforanhour]

BONUS CHARACTER 02 - Sonic

Sonic’s the name, speed’s his game! Well, usually it is, but there’s been a horrible accident, and he’s found himself with a severe case of broken leg. As such, he’s had to withdraw from the main tournament to recover. Don’t worry though, in good health or not, he’s still bringing the jams!

- Music from Sonic spin-offs

(Sonic and the Black Knight - Knight of the Wind, Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing Transformed - All Star Theme (Team Fortress), Shadow the Hedgehog - Lava Shelter)

- Music composed by Hideki Naganuma

(Jet Set Radio Future - Funky Dealer, Lethal League Blaze - Ain’t Nothin like a Funky Beat, Sonic Rush - Right There Ride On)

- Music associated with fast/speedy characters or their franchises

(Awesome Possum Kicks Dr Machino’s Butt - Dr. Machino’s Domain, Rocket Knight Adventures - Boss, Turbo (Dreamworks) - Let the Bass Go) - Music in the ska genre (Reel Big Fish - Sell Out, Kamen Rider OOO - Anything Goes, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Wake Up!)

(Art by ven#3606)

[vgprintads]

‘Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt!’

[GEN] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1993]

GamePro, November 1993 (#52)

Scanned by Phillyman, via RetroMags

[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]

#RetroGaming Flashback! “Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt” -1993 -Tengen for #SEGA Genesis https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYOvzUvQ6J/?utm_medium=tumblr

[retro-vgm-revival-hour]

RETRO VGM REVIVAL HOUR - STAGE 72: Mascot Games

Ever since Super Mario Bros. hit the NES in 1985, Nintendo’s red cap wearing mustachioed hero has reigned supreme as a prominent face for his company Nintendo and video games as a whole. With the introduction of Mario and its success came a new sub-genre of video games, dubbed the “mascot platformer” in which a colorful character would hop, run and swim his way through vast and colorful worlds filled with Unique characters and challenges that await the player upon popping in a cartridge.

Through the years, there have been plenty of games that have come and gone that tried to emulate Mario’s success, with many developers introducing fresh, new characters that have tried their hands in surpassing Mario in popularity.

It was during this time, the mid 80s through the late 90s, that mascot video games were a big deal. It seemed that Every game studio had to have a mascot. Some were very well-known, others not so much, and some were even easily forgotten as quickly as they were introduced. To put it bluntly; For every Mario, Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the Hedgehog there were a hundred Bubsy the Bobcats, Glover and Aero the Acrobat.

Although the success rate of this video game genre can be hit or miss, we can never dismiss their involvement throughout our gaming experiences growing up and more importantly the Music that these games provided us within each new world we encountered.

So this is why THIS STAGE of the Retro VGM revival Hour we are covering some of the best Music from various unknown, forgotten or in certain cases HATED mascot Video games.

So get your Power item of choice and be ready to encounter weird, unique and interesting worlds filled with amazing music just for you. Let’s get started!

                            Full track listing:              Game – Composer – Title – Company

1.) Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind – Matthew Berardo – “War of the Woolies, Woolering Heights & Hill Stream Blues“ – May 1993 – Accolade – SNES, Sega Genesis & Windows PC

2.) James Pond: Underwater Agent – Richard Joseph – “License to Bubble, Dangerous Cave & Title Screen (alternate)“ – 1990 – Millennium Interactive – Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes & Sega Genesis

3.) Blinx: The Time Sweeper – Mariko Nanba, Keiichi Sugiyama & Naofumi Hataya – “Boss battle, Tom-tom attack & Final boss (momentopolis)” – October 7, 2002 – Artoon/Xbox Game Studios – Microsoft Xbox

4.) Glover – Rob Lord, Paul Weir & Mark Bandola – “Title Theme, Boss Battle (Guardians of Atlantis) & Boss Battle (Frankenstein’s Monster)” – November 16, 1998 – Interactive Studios/Hasbro Interactive – Windows PC, Nintendo 64 & Sony PlayStation

5.) Rocky Rodent – Rikei Hirashima – “Highway Runnery, All This Climbing For an Egg! & Something Quirky“ – September 18, 1993 – Irem – SNES

6.) Awesome Possum… Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt – Earl Vickers, Doug Brandon & Nu Romantic – “Dr Machino’s Domain & Boss battle“ – November 25, 1993 – Tengen – Sega Genesis

7.) Aero the Acro-Bat – Rick Fox – “Circus (Act 2), Circus/Funpark Boss & Museum Boss“ – August 1, 1993 – Iguana/Sunsoft – Sega Genesis, SNES & GBA

8.) The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (Fantastic Dizzy) – Matt Gray – “The Forest 2, Zak’s Castle & Mine Cart Ride“ – April 1991 – The Oliver Twins/Codemasters – NES, MS-DOS, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Commodore Amiga, Sega Game Gear & Amiga CD32

9.) Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure – Matt Furniss – “Title Theme & Sewer City“ – November 18, 1994 – Interplay Productions –  Sega Genesis & SNES

10.) Alex Kidd in Miracle World – Tokuhiko Uwabo – “Main Theme, Swimming & Scopaco Cycle (Unused)“ – November 1, 1986 – Sega – Sega Master System

11.) Croc: Legend of the Gobbos – Karin Griffin, Martin Gwynn Jones & Justin Scharvona – “Snow Island, Underground Overground (Area 1) & Chumly’s Snow Den (Area 2)“ – September 29, 1997 – Argonaut Software/Fox Interactive – Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn & Microsoft PC

12.) Ristar – Tomoko Sasaki  – “Shooting Ristar, Du-Di-Da!! & Greedy Game (Theme of Kaiser)“ – January 1995 – Sega – Sega Genesis

13.) Bonk’s Adventure – Tsukasa Masuko – “Round 5, Boss 1 & Boss 2“ – December 15, 1989 – Red Company & Atlus/Hudson Soft – TurboGrafx-16, NES, Game Boy, Commodore Amiga & Arcade

14.) Jersey Devil – Gilles Léveillé – “Root Canal, Chemical Wasteland Boss & Opening (PAL ver.)“ – December 12, 1997 – Megatoon Studios/Ocean Software – Sony PlayStation & Windows PC

15.) Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel – Rick Fox – “Title/Map Screen, Beach & Factory (Stage 1)“ – October 1994 – Iguana Entertainment/Sunsoft – Sega Genesis & SNES

16.) Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension – Patrick Phelan & Neil Biggin – “Candy Land, Tool Land & Boss Theme “ – October 1992 – Gremlin Graphics –  Commodore Amiga CD32, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis & SNES

17.) Wild Woody – Ron Thal – “Minotaur Maze, Bonus Round & The Pit“ – September 1995 – Sega – Sega CD

18.) Ty the Tasmanian Tiger – George Stamatiadis – “Bull’s Pen, Beyond the Black Stump & The Gauntlet“ – October 9, 2002 – Krome Studios/Electronic Arts – GameCube, PS2, Microsoft Xbox & Windows PC

19.) Punky Skunk – Harumi Fujita & Yasuaki Fujita – “Boss Theme, 8th Stage Theme & Final Boss Theme“ – November 1, 1996 – Ukiyotei/Visit – Sony Playstation

20.) Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back – Christophe Fevre – “Title Theme, Desert Experience & On the Foxy Trail“ – 1991 – Titus Interactive – Commodore Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Game Boy & GBA

21.) Rocket Knight Adventures – Konami Kukeiha Club (Masanori Oouchi, Aki Hata, Michiru Yamane, Masanori Adachi & Hiroshi Kobayashi) – “Stage 1-1 (Kingdom of Zebulos), Boss Theme & Stage 7 (The PIG STAR!)“ – August 6, 1993 – Konami – Sega Genesis