Retro Gaming Australia

Contrary to popular belief, Fido Dido isn’t actually a creation of PepsiCo – he was created by two New York animators, who sold t-shirts of the character they printed himself. PepsiCo then licensed the mascot to hock their drinks before replacing him with Cool Spot. The Fido Dido video game was scheduled to be released in 1993, but never made to market. A prototype ROM is in wide circulation.

Atomic Bomberman is a bit of an anomaly. It’s Bomberman designed by a Western team – Interplay licensed the rights from Hudson Soft and proceeded to produce their own spin on the formula. Obviously the best part of the game is the multiplayer support – Atomic Bomberman supports up to 10 players. LAN and Internet play were planned for the project, and remnants are in the game code, but neither was present in the final release.

Nano Breaker is a game cast in the mould of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, but ditches Dracula and the occult for cybords and plasma weapons. Nano Breaker was brutalised by critics of the day, despite those same critics being more receptive of Lament of Innocence. Today Nano Breaker is remembered as being one of the bloodiest games ever released.

Indiana Jones’ Greatest Adventures is to the Indiana Jones trilogy as Super Star Wars et al are to the Star Wars Trilogy, packing the popular LucasFilm movies into a series of pretty challenging platforming levels. A Mega Drive version was planned for release in late 1995, but was cancelled despite being completed.

I dare say that WCW Nitro is the worst video game licensed by a professional wrestling organisation. WCW Nitro is damn near uncontrollable, looks ugly by the standards of the day and animates awfully. It does feature a few amusing FMV clips of wrestler promos, but WCW Nitro should be avoided at all costs.

RoboCop 3 is not only a bad movie, it’s also a bad video game. But that shouldn’t surprise you, coming from Acclaim.

Nothing says awesome video game like a platformer featuring a corporate mascot. Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest is probably one of the worst platformers of the 16-bit era.

Golden Axe is one of Sega’s greatest arcade games, and one of the headliners of the Mega Drive’s early line up. It loses some of the graphical lustre of the arcade original, but it does add two extra stages at the end to compensate.

Most men are extremely protective of their stones.

This is a wasted opportunity – they could have had Ernest Borgnine on the cover!