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Invasion from Beyond (aka B-Movie) (PS1) (1998) 5/5

Following the river of lava over two towers with spinning blue circles as they lead to a giant blue pyramid, defended by dozens of UFOs of different shapes and sizes.

You manage to defeat the aliens as the cutscene shifts to the blue metallic pyramid, with beams of light protruding from the cracks in its structure.

The pyramid starts exploding as tremors start to shake the planet, opening new cracks and unleashing geysers of hot flames from the bowels of the earth.

The camera zooms out to show the entire planet starts to shake and it explodes in neatly cut quarters like a cut up watermelon, revealing the hot lava inside as a blue shockwave swoops the darkness of space.

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Invasion from Beyond (aka B-Movie) (PS1) (1998) 4/5

An escort mission of following a cop car with a cartoonishly large megaphone, driving through suburban streets proclaiming "Aliens invading! Don't panic!"

A blonde lady in a blue dress can be seen in front of her house, yelling and panicking.

Flying the pitch black Schwarzkopf fighter jet with a sci-fi red engine exhaust on the back, doing a tight right turn over a jungle near some Mayan ruins and a large ziggurat rising under the poisonous green skies.

One of the unlockable ships is an actual old timey UFO called the Frizz-B, currently flying over an alien installation with a central hologram of a rising spire.

The homeworld of the Martians, which I'm assuming is Mars but maybe they're from a planet called Martia, I don't know!

A yellowish desert with a river of lava and large metallic arches going over it with a green dome protruding from the ground on the left, complementing the pinkish-purple skies.

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Invasion from Beyond (aka B-Movie) (PS1) (1998) 3/5

Successfully finishing or embarrassingly failing a mission shows a shifting cinematic camera of your ship as well as a cockpit front camera view of your pilot, a cool short haired lady with a earpiece and mic called Dominique Dallas from Houston, Texas, looking left and right as she turns with the message "MISSION FAILED" displayed over her head.

Look, I was taking screenshots, and it's very easy to fail in this game with so many short timers, escort and defense missions. 👀

I couldn't find the names of the other characters so I'm just gonna call this guy Potato Sack Head, because his head is shaped like a potato sack grumpy neckbeard guy with puffy cheeks, bad moustache, metallic cyber headphones and a green cap.

Another cool lady, a redhead with a serious look on her face, wearing a black uniform with red stars, possibly Russian coded and also failed the mission.

The ship select screen during a mission (you choose a squad of three ships serving as three lives), with the Bulldog fighter jet with black and white checkers and stripes selected and the 3D head portrait of its pilot, a grizzled war veteran with a dingy helmet, chomping on a cigar as he's squinting with one eye and his other eye being wide open, looking like he's seen some things.

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Invasion from Beyond (aka B-Movie) (PS1) (1998) 2/5

Even though the game is a heavily fast paced arcade shooter, a lot of the missions require you to beam up objects or civilians, drawn and animated in an adorable pixel art style, carrying them in your limited cargo space (shown in the upper left corner of the screen, varies depending on the ship you choose), like these two folks running on the grass by a small white house near a steep cliff, panicking about all the hubbub.

Dodging green alien lasers and apartment buildings as you try to mow down UFOs while not crashing into any of the numerous structures or send a few rockets into the wrong target.

Flying over a small village under ominous green skies as you destroy one of the larger and more advanced UFOs, causing a big explosion and light streaks beaming from the blast in a spectacular display of effects and lens flare.

A weirdly dim blue river with a solid color and no texture flows near a jungle area with volcanic mountains and a art skybox of a giant volcano erupting in the distance, creating Mordor on (non-middle) Earth.

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Invasion from Beyond (aka B-Movie) (PS1) (1998) 1/5

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one. But still they come!

Aptly named B-Movie for the European release, this game puts you in the pilot seat of numerous advanced aircraft, defending Earth from a Martian invasion in an impressively large map action at sleek 60 fps and an aggressive LOD system where every little house and object has several levels of detail and textures, creating a very grungy but smooth look with some gorgeous low poly models and Amiga-era pixel art texture work in a sort of clumsy but breakneck fast arcade gameplay.

Here we have the aerodynamic Red Devil fighter ship doing a whoosh over a small rural town near Washington D.C. with lots of little adorable low-poly houses, a church and trees as the orange sunset skies bring forth a fleet of UFOs, several smaller and flatter ones and a larger bowl-shaped saucer with neon green udders.

The awesome silver and red fighter jet called Tsunami, looking like something straight of out Raiden or another cool Japanese shmup, doing a tight right turn while flying over an urban area at night while Steed, whatever wingman dude or mission critical characters he might be (I wasn't paying attention) is saying "On my way to his home, cover me".

OK dude, I'm not gonna lie to your partner about your affair or whatever it is you're doing, I'm fighting Martians over here.

The sleek silver Cobra ship with two large engine exhausts on the side, flying over the White House under the beautiful pink skies with the Washington Monument obelisk looking erect in the distance as black flying saucers start shooting blue laser fire at the building.

My hunch tells me I should just let them do their thing and not interfere.

The outside hull of a giant mothership with many green domes, generators and trenches lit in orange lights as you fly the B-62 Mk. III, a WWII looking jet with lots of black and white stripes and checkered patterns on its wings and fins, doing a strafe run as its blue engine leaves a thin blue streak as it comes from the right, targeting some structures as a little green butt-naked alien with a big orange megaphone looking gun looks around.

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Colony Wars: Red Sun (PS1) (2000) 5/5

Piloting one of the aforementioned Sha'har crescent fighters, approaching a giant tentacled monstrosity, looking like half-machine, half-creature called the titular Red Sun, a spaceship that turned out to have a more sinister purpose.

Chasing the Red Sun towards a literal red sun, its warm glow filling the dark void of space with a beautiful reddish tint as your BSI 303 Hyper Zeroid flies towards the silhouette of a giant space squid.

The tentacled Red Sun escaping through a wormhole as you're trying to chase after it, shooting your top and bottom green lasers.

Stuck in subspace, it's now just you and the Red Sun, alone in the purple darkness as the tentacled monster shows three red lights on its underside (how rude) that must be its weak points, possibly due to being actual lights that are probably connected to a simple unsecured electrical system built for some red LED lights so it's always a good attack vector for structural weakness.

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Colony Wars: Red Sun (PS1) (2000) 4/5

Chasing down one of the Pirate Interceptors, a hilariously early 20th century looking red triplane, making the Pirate designs super charming and funny.

Flying the Ryusei towards the Morgan's Ghost, a large pirate station orbiting a red planet, its dark silhouette lit up from below by the descending sun.

Flying very close to the Unisoft "Profit and Loss" spaceship, a white cruiser with some blue lines and details, its numerous defense turrets standing at the ready.

Flying over the surface of Aurora 3, defending a refinery complex from an attack by Sha'har Fighters, black crescent-shaped ships raining down hell on the smog filled industrial area.

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Colony Wars: Red Sun (PS1) (2000) 3/5

A training mission in deep space while flying the Snapdragon in third person, trying out your targeting systems while shooting at some space debris, a metallic panel just gently rotating in space.

A mission on the surface of Optima Ferox, one of the aforementioned red planets, its thick brown atmosphere making it hard to see, but not that hard to notice the local lifeform looking like a giant crab with a big whale face, roaring to the poopy skies.

Your mission on Optima Ferox leads you to The General, the man appearing in your dreams, just gently lying on the ground here in his white space suit, stretching his arms like a little baby while you're trying not to get him eaten by the giant whale-crabs.

Flying the Zaibatsu Ryusei, an aerodynamic fighter craft with three blue engine exhausts and many fins, flying through the purple space and shooting at an Empiret Fighter.

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Colony Wars: Red Sun (PS1) (2000) 2/5

Chasing the rebels on the surface of Dendray, doing a literal canyon run as you shoot down Rebel tanks while searching for the four Base Generators you're tasked to blow up.

The red planet again, now obstructed by a Rebel Cruiser, a very angular and chunky white starship, possibly built by Tesla, with a wide rectangular blue engine exhaust and two very long wings.

A mission intro cutscene showing a space station ring with a central skyscraper-like structure orbiting around another red planet with your ship and another vessel flying close to one another.

Honestly this game is gorgeous and often looks like it could've been a late 90s PC space sim when looked at with the upscaled high-res emulator settings.

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Colony Wars: Red Sun (PS1) (2000) 1/5

You are Alexander Lyron Valdemar, a miner in the League worlds during the days of the second Colony Wars game, having strange dreams about a coming catastrophe and a mysterious General that guides your path, you decide to leave everything and go on a perilous journey across space, visiting various space stations and doing mercenary work while following the dreams through a tangled web of politics, war and alien threats.

Here we have Valdemar inside the cockpit of a Magentech CR8 Snapdragon (seems Android phones are still all the rage in the 47th century), a chunky hauler ship running a defense mission, escorting a couple of giant bipedal walker haulers, carrying huge red containers on their backs while escorted by a few chicken walkers and fighter jets, walking on a path through a frozen tundra under hazy blue skies.

Flying dangerously close near a friendly Empiret (not a typo) Battlecruiser, a blue space hulk shaped like a whale with side engines and many vertical and horizontal fins, getting attacked by Rebels as it's leaving a red planet looming large in the distance.

A third person view of the Harper-Jones H4E Magnum, aptly named for it's sci-fi gun shape with side and bottom wings, chasing after the Unisoft "Profit and Loss" freighter as it's trying to escape through a giant swirling wormhole, pursued by a alien Sha'har Cephalopod (the font on the thumbnail kinda makes it look like it says "cephalopoo"), a giant drill-like ship that opens its front section like a claw into 8 talons, reaching to grab the ship.

One of the coolest looking ships in the game, the BSI 303 Hyper Zeroid, looking like three guns from Halo placed in a crown formation with blue exhausts in the back and additional bits and fins at the bottom, just a cool sci-fi design.

The cool ship is shooting a barrage of blue Mk. III lasers at a League Dreadnought, a Michaelangelo-from-the-Turtles-themed long spaceship, shooting down its side turrets one by one.

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Red Asphalt (aka Rock & Roll Racing 2: Red Asphalt) (PS1) (1998) 3/3

Driving on an inclined road with an awning peeking from above, pouring a beautiful blue waterfall on the side with pastel colored pinkish blue skies light up the world in a gentle sunset.

The volcanic planet of Varkon, entering a tunnel that leads to a cavernous hall with a giant bust of a demon standing tall in the center, crossing his arms and showing off his ample abs, magnificently lit up by the river of lava on both sides of the road.

The game has a cheat code with a few hidden cars, enabling you to drive some of the enemy boss vehicles as well as the red demon Draenek himself, looking all cool while standing on a large hovering platform and driving past some burning pots, very much his vibe.

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Red Asphalt (aka Rock & Roll Racing 2: Red Asphalt) (PS1) (1998) 2/3

The planet Retalia with its beautiful pinkish-orange skies, driving under a metallic blue canopy as you're trying to outrun the other deathmobiles while targeting one of them with a yellow circle and lots of pink vector lines rotating around it.

A dark tunnel, vaguely trapezoid shaped with a indent on top showing a texture of bulbous glass windows while a row of low placed blue rectangular lights cover the entire length of the tunnel, creating a cool atmosphere.

A bit more of that amusement park on Tranzine, its blue road leading you next to a stand with a round clown face and a circus tent while a large rollercoaster ride with neon green floating three-pronged lights hover above as well as an arch with another one of that grown man cherub looking mofo faces on it.

The dark green skies of L.A. with brownish clouds hovering over a well lit highway with street lights leading to some sci-fi towers and a tunnel while a lighthouse shines its rotating light far in the distance.

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Red Asphalt (aka Rock & Roll Racing 2: Red Asphalt) (PS1) (1998) 1/3

The race shifts to Tranzine, an oceanic planet that looks like it's been turned into one giant amusement park, the entrance greeting you with the big bulbous face of a chubby blonde man with blushing cheeks and a party hat, nothing unnerving about that image.

The planet Drakar, the Arena of Death, a purple, metallic NASCAR-shaped track with thick arches and purple neon lights hanging under the dark cloudy skies as you are chasing after the demon-like Draenek himself.

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Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (PS1) (1997) 2/2

Chewbacca doing a 90 degree kick, literally exploding a Stormtrooper Scout's arm off in a red flashy blast, bringing the Imperial army to a new low.

Arden Lyn, the supposed master of Teräs Käsi with her robotic right arm, flying up in the air inside the round Carbonite Freezing Chamber with the yellow lights and moody blue haze as Princess Leia! (with an exclamation mark) dressed in her skimpy dancing girl slave costume, waving her double-edged lightsaber upwards.

A fight occurs inside the Death Star II with all the tubes and little lights as Arden Lyn, a black haired babe in a corset and black pants waves her robotic arm and slaps Boba Fett in the ankle, making it flash red and defeating the bounty hunter in an embarrassingly easy way.

A closeup of Darth Vader as he's standing on a platform on Endor, the satellite dish blinking in the distance under the giant half-finished Death Star II, holding one hand on his hip and lightsaber in the other, tilting his head a little to the side and looking at the camera like "yeah, that's right, I stabbed Boba Fett in the dick".

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Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (PS1) (1997) 1/2

In an uncharacteristic anime move on account of the Emperor, he introduces Arden Lyn, the master of the martial art of Teräs Käsi in a plan to fight the Rebel leaders to eliminate them once and for all in mortal kombat.

However, this scene in the misty swamps of Dagobah is just a lovers quarrel between Princess Leia wearing a brown outfit with boots and gloves, wielding a double sided yellow lightsaber, a couple of years before The Phantom Menace, as she's about to deflect Han Solo's blaster fire because he shot first.

Chewbacca punches Luke Skywalker in the groin so hard, a yellow flash pops from his cockles as Luke flinches backwards in an almost 90 degree swing, embarrassing himself in front of pretty much the entirety of Cloud City.

Thok the green pig-like Gamorrean warrior, raised on Pzob with his brother Gorc, the siblings famous for being able to burp a fireball after drinking Gamorrean hooch (hey don't ask me, it's all cannon), pulling out his axe to defend himself just as Hoar, real name KkH'Oar'Rrhr (he was teased a lot as a child), a force-sensitive Tusken Raider, deciding to instead flail his rifle around like a polearm.

The misty night time on the forest moon of Endor, Boba Fett is lying on the metallic platform just as Darth Vader does a crouching dick stab with his red lightsaber right in Fett's bobas.

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Miracle Space Race (PS1) (2003) 2/2

Did I mention that all the tracks look the same? Well they pretty much do, with what looks like a single group of textures made out of sci-fi panels, this time adding a few turrets on the top of the right wall in this left-turning bend, shooting green lasers at whatever while goat girl Flossie tries to avoid any bump in the level or racers that will significantly slow down her speed.

Along with the same-looking levels, the game seemingly only has a single music track that plays in every level, making the feeling of déjà vu that much stronger, as Chloe the bear does a tight right turn next to a wall of red arrows illuminating the floor with its bright lights.

Orange dragon Cadmus with two little white horns flying a pink hovercraft under some arches and even more metallic surfaces and sci-fi panels.

A back view of the racers chasing you through a green tunnel, their lower LOD 3D models popping out with less and less details as they loose all textures and become faceless floating polygons in the distance.

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Miracle Space Race (PS1) (2003) 1/2

A budget hover-kart racer with little furry critters flying through a number of the same looking tracks made out of metal panels, grates and sci-fi arches with purple space nebulae up above, piloting little hovercrafts with two side engines, with Paulie the beaver here with his blue jacket and puffy winter hat narrowly avoiding an attack from one of the other racers, landing on Rocco the raccoon, making him blink in a bloody red flash as he spins out of control.

Rat guy Chaz piloting a red hovercraft through a green glass tunnel with arches every few meters made out of metal panels with black and yellow stripy patterns and red arrows pointing that the race is that-a-way.

Yellow bear Chloe in her black hovercraft, flying through a winding sci-fi tunnel with electricity bars sparkling on the 45 degree tilted walls near the ceiling.

A green tunnel made out of stone slabs with lots of neon green outlined arrows pointing forward as the racers all crowd together in a very unsportsmanlike conduct.

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Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers (Saturn) (1996) 2/2

Winning the battle shows our robo-heroes from the front, giving us a good look at the big lipped Dontin, looking up in the sky and flexing her Mickey Mouse gloves as a blue flashing ring starts to form around her like she's charging her powers.

Another robo-lady, the pink armored Ray with a sleek aerodynamic helmet, two yellow drone turbines to enable her to hover over the ocean and two big robo-boobs just for aesthetic reasons.

Our friendly hero Pal, raising his floating gloves in the air as he hovers above the blue, freezing wasteland.

Playing as Mugen, the wooden robo monk with a big hat and two propellers on the back, flying around cyberspace with a red grid on the floor shiny floating marbles all around, confronting the big boss Bigeye, a floating eye orb that morphs into a star-shaped floating eye orb, shooting big chunky electric orbs and using the laws of physics against you.

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Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers (Saturn) (1996) 1/2

Swindled by the promise of 3D in the title and the lack of any attention span, it turned out the game doesn't really have any 3D polygons, just the VDP2 rendered ground plane like this icy floor made out of frozen blocks and shallow water, with 2D sprites for pillars and the characters themselves, the aforementioned Gebockers.

This is a Virtual-On style arena 1v1 shooter between cute little rocket robots with boosters on their butts, floating Rayman hands (I'm on a roll with those lately) and round heads with googly eyes, with the current battle introducing Pal, a blue Gebocker (I'm just assuming the characters are called Gebockers since I don't know the lore, it's all in Japanese and very little can be found online) with a red V on his forehead like some kinda Gundam fella. He's currently fighting Fisher, an almost Minion looking robo with a big exhaust for a mouth and goggles (hence the Minions), rushing around like he's gonna gobble someone up.

Dontin is a yellow rocket-shaped thing with short brown hair, googly eyes and a big red smoochy mouth (no visible here), throwing exploding walnuts at a purple monk robot with a cane called Mugen as they zoom around a weird and endless pink horizon with blobs, tendrils and spikes, all gooey and pink, while a pink mountain range with tall neuron-trees rise into the purple skies.

An endless ocean with a small arena surrounded by flat orange buoys, enclosing a wavy area with some gray shells and rocks as the pink sexy robot Ray is all electrified, shooting green photon torpedoes at Ein, a gray robot in a sort of floating chair with two guns in front, looking surprised with his googly eyes, either because he's witnessing the endless watery horizon under the orange and purple aurora skies or he just realized he's a floating sentient robot built to kill. Either way, lots to ponder on.

Rocketbot Kid, a cowboy with a big hat and a sheriff badge, rootin', tootin' and shootin' his akimbo guns across the desert sands past some yellow rocks as the feline looking Catty, with her big eyes, green hair and cat ears, doing a swooshing side dodge and leaving a trail of semi-transparent Cattys in her wake.

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Floating Runner: Quest for the 7 Crystals (PS1) (1996) 4/4

The pause screen makes the camera rotate around the character so we can get a better look at Cress, the spiky haired chibi hero with cute anime eyes, a blue sort cyber uniform with some doodads on his chest as well as the signature floating hands and feet, doing the Rayman.

Also a paused look at Lay, the cute blonde bounty hunter with a pony tail, a red and blue metallic armor, standing in front of some low poly trees.

Cress running around a dark temple, jumping down a set of neon-green stairs as they lead to a set of five big pillars with flames on top.

Each level ends with our heroes reaching a crystal, like this one standing inside an octagonal fountain, with waterfalls pouring from the sides as Lay jumps to grab the crystal.

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Floating Runner: Quest for the 7 Crystals (PS1) (1996) 3/4

Cress shooting his blue energy balls (though the weapon item in the UI is clearly display a revolver) at a group of black round fellas wearing gray gas mask with evil glassy blue eyes, running around a purple and blue checkerboard pattern floor.

Lay explores a lovely green forest with a cool Bryce-rendered background of hills and meadows just as a few tree stumps come alive, their roots creeping like spider legs as they attack the blonde hero. Truly, a scene right out of Elden Ring, to be sure.

Cress running around a lava filled cavern, jumping on gray platforms and rocky brown paths as he's avoiding rolling boulders, pudding cats and a cute brown bird with little angry eyes.

Lay floating up in the clouds as she traverses through gusts of wind, leading her to another gray cloud populated by a snowman and a weird red devilish creature.

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Floating Runner: Quest for the 7 Crystals (PS1) (1996) 2/4

Cress crashes a party of platypuses... platypi... just running around in their cute low-poly floating feet and flappy hands as a green frog guy's butt does a big twinkly shine, 'coz details make the girls sweat even more, while they're shaking their belts.

Lay running around a water temple with tall pillars and a marble floor (I'm just imagining it is) made out of gray and yellow rectangular regions, making the whole game look like Bubsy 3D in that wonderful early 3D fashion. She's joined by the little fluffy cat puddings, a frog, a floating transparent jellyfish thing and a rock cannon turret.

Cress hopping over a peculiar purple pond and landing on very low poly reeds bending over the water, casting a nice sharp shadow that's most probably made out of polygons as well, which is a very nice detail that makes the scene pop out more.

Lay sliding down a water slide with other waterfalls and slides popping in from the low draw distance as well as an abstract checkerboard background of blue and green squares and pixels, looking like the Matrix is a bit broken while a group of floating jellyfish with red eyes float over Lay's head.

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Floating Runner: Quest for the 7 Crystals (PS1) (1996) 1/4

Crystal Land is invaded by Zaurer, creating the one crystal to rule all them crystals and in the darkness grind them... *khkhm*

Spiky haired guy Cress and blonde bounty hunter Lay are on a quest to save the land, get all the crystals and defeat the baddies. We got Cress here with big polygonal (and untextured, like most of the game) hair, a cool white and blue outfit with a three-pronged flux capacitor on his back as well as floating hands and feet, showing what it would be like if Rayman was originally designed in Japan. Cress is standing on a lily pad on a small lake with very crunchy and pixelated textures, hopping like a lil' froggy man.

Our heroine, Lay with blonde hair and equally floating hands and legs, climbing a cool textureless low-poly tree by jumping on its branches, positioned around the tree trunk like a spiral staircase with most of the stairs missing.

Cress jumping around an orangey Doritos desert while avoiding a bunch of brown scorpions, big-butt spiders with a zig-zag yellow and black pattern and stone heads with evil eyes and a hexagonal third eye that shoots stuff.

Lay running on a wiggly pink path over a fantastical abstract space of very low resolution blue textures and floating white platforms as she arrives in front of a fluffy white pudding creature with little legs, cat ears and a long tail with two rectangular eyes, joined by a green fishy creature with a wide orange mouth and sensual lips.

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Alien Trilogy (PS1) (1996) 5/5

Another alien corridor, now with additional synthetic soldiers, big hunky Schwarzenegger-looking guys with smartguns, the muzzle flash illuminating their face and doing some damage to Ripley.

The alien ship corridors are full of xenomorphs, like this guy who is in the process of exploding in little green chunks while a torso and head of a captured human is sticking out of the wall, softly whispering "kill me", and if you do, you get their ID card which is like a nice bonus and very considerate of them.

One of the facehuggers actually facehugging, a squishy and very pixelated image jumps and covers the screen, obstructing your vision and damaging your health while Ripley throws a couple of curse words at the nasty bugger.

Finally, Ripley gets to an Alien Queen (well, actually there's three of them in the entire game), standing in front of her see-through tube-like hatching pod, doing a shout and opening her mouth to reveal another mouth (so hot) while her eggs hatch and release a group of facehuggers at you.

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Alien Trilogy (PS1) (1996) 4/5

Dark corridors galore with an alien warrior (which is just a xenomorph with a reddish tint) standing next to a sci-fi trapezoidal door opening while being shot at by Ripley with her smartgun.

Ripley gets into the very halls of the alien ship, its corridors covered in black panels and bio-tubes with two transparent, cocoon-like pods on the walls with humanoid creatures inside with tubes coming out of their mouths, possibly showing what was once considered the Space Jockey race, or just a couple of xenomorph teenagers, but either way they're something weird and new that we haven't really seen in the movies afaik.

Oh and Ripley is shooting down an alien with her pulse rifle again. (come on Ripley, improvise a bit, make up some new ways to kill aliens!)

A prison morgue full of mortuary racks and a few opened cryo pods.

The dark Giger-esque halls of the Bone Ship, now full of corpo commandos in white armor, shaking like that guy in Robocop when ED-209 fills him full of lead.

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Alien Trilogy (PS1) (1996) 3/5

A cryosleep chamber inside the colony, very much inspired by the first movie with the door design on the wall and one of the cryo pods opened to release a chestburster (which I've always called a chestbuster, that's a whole different movie) which Ripley promptly shoots in midair.

A dark chamber filled with xenomorph eggs, using the pulse rifle to destroy them one by one.

An administrative area with white walls and neon lights with Ripley shooting down a Weyland-Yutani soldier, wearing a full Marine gear, in a splash of blood.

Another dark room (the game is full of them!) full of displays on the ceiling as well as a central computer terminal from the first movie as facehuggers jump around, being blown up by Ripley's pulse rifle.

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Alien Trilogy (PS1) (1996) 2/5

Ripley picking up a shotgun and blowing up an entire row of conveniently placed red barrels in a line of glorious explosions and flying polygons, one of the very satisfying things you can do in this game.

The generators are out as the backup power only lights up the colony halls with a dark blue light, creating a creepy and moody atmosphere while Ripley blows up a hole in a xenomorph's chest with a sploodge of green goo coming out.

You can't have an Aliens game without the Smartgun, a huge and long rifle carried like a chaingun with both hands, shooting a barrage of homing bullets with a distinct and large star-shaped muzzle flash, mowing down a couple of dog aliens inside a well lit prison bathroom covered in dirty tiles and smudgy mirrors.

A pool of neon green water illuminating the dark corridors of the crashed Bone Ship, its Giger-esque walls lit up by the eerie toxic liquid as Ripley and a Weyland-Yutani Commando from the third movie, wearing a full body white armor and helmet, shoot at each other, or rather Ripley is using her flamethrower to heat things up.

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Alien Trilogy (PS1) (1996) 1/5

An alternate storyline loosely based on the plot and locations of the Alien movies, you play as Marine Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, investigating a colony on LV-426 where her team gets wiped out so only her and Bishop survive the attack, with the synthetic sort sending her mission briefings while Ripley gets to mow down hordes of xenomorphs (as lovely pre-rendered 2D sprites), like this guy here standing in the middle of a platform in a dark, industrial area full of pipes and girders and metallic paneling, like most of the game's environments.

Turns out that the Weyland-Yutani corporation doesn't like you messing around with their aliens so they send out their troopers in green security guard outfits and short military haircuts, standing in a corridor with slanted, orange panels on the walls and neon lights as Ripley uses her M41A Pulse Rifle to blow the head off one of them in a brutal splash of blood.

After clearing out the colony, Ripley visits a prison facility inspired by Alien³, with a dark furnace chamber illuminated by an ominous red glow coming from the hot fumes bursting from the grating on the floor and burning up a xenomorph while you help out the process of combustion by adding some lead. (that's how it works, right?)

The prison canteen area covered in 70s sci-fi beige walls and floor paneling, with a large kitchen table with cupboards, some monitors and a work desk on the left wall while a kind of orangey Runner aka Dog alien just kinda strolls about on all fours.

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Retro Force (PS1) (1999) 5/5

A very cool and dark chamber with a curvet, tube like opening with light pouring in as a giant spider-mech falls from the ceiling and onto the dark metallic floor made out of red LED-lit CPU fans.

Paris managing to get back to 2999 just as the city is about to fall and gets another shot at fighting off the aliens, now flying over a street between two apartment buildings, shooting at a giant blue robot shaped like an anthropomorphic rabbit guy with a wide face and two straight raised (but very gay) ears as it swings its thin arms around, trying to hit you.

Paris arrives in front of a volcano-shaped building with the night city in the background, straight out of Blade Runner as a blue beam shoots out of the building, housing The Holy Artefact just as Kyati swoops in, controlling another giant mech, looking like a dark robot samurai with full armor (and cute cat heads adorning it), holding a giant sword in one hand and a big gun in another, which is currently being electrocuted by your Ioniser beam.

As Kyati's samurai mech gets obliterated, it retreats to its personal robot, a big capsule-shaped torso and head with a painted-on screaming cat face, short arms, red airplane wings on the back and tank treads for legs, looking very annoyed like you just broke its favorite toy ('coz you kinda did).

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Retro Force (PS1) (1999) 4/5

Flying over a very cool looking hologram of a magical circle covered in orbs and symbols on the edges, many colorful lights and neuron-like links with a huge central planet as well as other orbiting spheres, possibly showing the solar system of this alien world, displayed in a very Final Fantasy fashion.

Flying over the night streets of The City, the hometown of the Retro Force as they're trying to push back the alien invasion, flying past a tall green neon sign with a smiling stick figure guy and the word MOO below him.

And here's our evil, scheming antagonist, a comparatively smallish robot cat called Kyati, made out of yellow metal with a very angry face and a big meow, with red gloves and boots and a smiling white face of a cat on its torso, showing its little teeth, floating above the snowy cliffs under a giant UFO as it beams down a huge blue Mechwarrior-like mech, a bipedal robot with a big torso and missile launchers for hands, just as Kyati flies with its booster boots into the mech's cockpit.

Kyati is defeated but not for long as it opens a hypnotically swirling portal, taking everyone into the far past.

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Retro Force (PS1) (1999) 3/5

A boss fight in a dark rocky area as Paris approaches a flat, horizontal flying vehicle with three vertical fins in the middle and the two ends, exchanging shots as they fight between two rushing waterfalls.

A dark corridor with snake ornaments and carved grotesques on the walls, guarded by two big turrets covered in red force fields, so you have to destroy the central generator between them to power the shields down and then take care of the tiresome two.

As your mission takes you back in time through different ages, you fly above an ancient Greek temple as a row of explosions light up the skies.

Another dragonfly boss floating over a diamond-shaped pool of green goo in a high-tech base, covered in turrets, shield generators as you throw one of the screen clearing bombs, creating a huge orange blast.

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Retro Force (PS1) (1999) 2/5

The snowy mountains create a wall of frozen rock as a giant boss enemy flies in from above, looking like some kind of spiky samurai kabuto helmet with those angular flat horns like Galactus' helm from them Marvel comics, a metallic monstrosity meant to mangle your machine into mincemeat.

Shooting some electric Ioniser beams at an almost cockroach looking tank boss with a big turret, accompanied by two red tank guys.

The game also uncommonly uses all the four face buttons to shoot your main weapon, drop bombs Xevious style, shoot depleting weapons like missiles or side shots as well as a screen clearing explosion. Interestingly, it also uses L1 and L2 to swap between a higher and lower altitude, so you can actually shoot the buildings and enemies on the ground, with a bit of a cooldown between altitude swaps.

A volcanic grotto with an adorable and giant chunky robot with a big round torso, thin legs and wings full of rockets as well as transparent insect wings in the back, with the main pièce de résistance being its two big googly eyes, straight out of an N64 game made by Rare.

Arriving at a temple plateau with a big ring-like structure and two guardian robots, shaped like giant dragonflies, shooting out giant double fireballs at you as they buzz around. The boss health bar transforms from showing ENEMY to spelling out ENEMIES when there's more than one, a neat little touch.

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Retro Force (PS1) (1999) 1/5

The game mixes things up with three weapons, the purple Pulser, shooting one powerful shot at a time, the Fanfire, shooting a barrage of red photon shots in a horizontal line, and the Ioniser, a blue electric beam with a long reach, used right now as Paris flies over a frozen landscape with spiky rocks and green glowing crystals, with two squads of sort-of-Tie-Fighter enemies with evil grinning faces on their hull.

Paris shooting down one of the floating mines hovering over a fiery volcano area, increasing the heat in an already toasty situation.

Flying over some rocky cliffs and grassy hills, just past an ancient building with a tall lighthouse, shooting out a green beam of light.

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Frogger (PS1) (1997) 3/3

Every level begins with a front closeup of Frogger, showing his triangular eyes and dump smiley face, hyping himself before jumping in front of a truck because I'm not that great at the game. 👀

Another hacked cam angle showing a lovely autumn forest with Frogger standing on a thick branch in front of a hanging wooden bridge as very low poly and very cute owls and squirrels zoom past the smiling frog.

A hacked cam POV behind hour hoppy hero, showing what it would look like if Frogger was more like Gears of War with an over the shoulder camera, looking at the colorful low poly and mostly untextured cars and trucks zipping across the highway.

A dusty canyon with Frogger standing on the starting position marked with a bullseye, which is kinda fitting as a herd of low poly buffalo rushing through.

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Frogger (PS1) (1997) 2/3

A spooky and sparkly frozen river with some glowing fireflies that Frogger can slurp up as well a couple of spiders as big as frog guy here.

A nasty sewer flooded with some kind of purple water with floating oil cans and sludge covered pipes criss crossing over it as Frogger hops around, trying to find the right path to rescue his orange and red frog friends who, I gotta say, are very chill and passive about this whole situation and looks like they're not doing anything to help out or save themselves just because this famous guy is around so somehow he's obligated to rescue them for whatever... you know what, it's not important.

Frog guy standing on the shore of a dark blue river full of yawning alligators, or that's what he thinks, not realizing they're trying to eat him but they're stuck, like so many of us, in their lane, repeating the same behavior, redoing the same mistakes, when all they ever wanted was to munch of some frog.

Frogger standing in front of a big temple doorway with a giant stone statue of a frog that looks surprisingly like him.

Now, I know some of you will say that it's very froggist of me to just assume it's the same frog because all frogs look the same to me but I'm pretty sure all them polygons are in the same place and shape, and I know my polygons, alright!?

You know what, I just looked up a longplay and it turns out you enter them temple by collecting all the hidden golden frogs so it's probably one of them as a giant statue. So I apologize, it seems I was a froggist all along.

Listen I've had a bad headache the entire day and that's why I'm posting a bit later and if you think these alt texts are weirder than usual that's the gist of it but I'll be fine thanks ok bye!

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Frogger (PS1) (1997) 1/3

Frogger's back in full 3D and he's learned some new moves like a croak, a big hop and how to properly use his tongue (it's important).

The game also has a slightly more dynamic camera when the need arises, as well as the ability to rotate the view by 90 degrees (blasphemous). It starts with the classic level, hopping across the busy highway, dodging cars and trucks and arriving at a river with groups of turtles that sneakily sink into the water just to mess with you, as well as lots of tree trunks, creating temporary moving platforms between you and your colorful froggy friends that explode in a hundred little triangles when you hop on them to "rescue" them, but we all know Frogger is really an immortal frog from the clan McFrog, and ultimately there can be only one!

Frog guy shown here hopping over some metallic plates forming a bridge over a lava pit with flaming rocks flying over the platform.

Turns out Frogger is surprisingly light, being able to hop on clouds, the road and houses visible below. He's waiting for a big beaked bird to fly past so he can hop onto its back and resume his journ... oh wait, he's dead isn't he... That's why he's able to hop on clouds... he's in frog heaven.

A zoomed out hacked camera of Big Boulder Alley, a sandy canyon level that mostly consists of a serpentine path going up a cliff while low-poly boulders keep rolling down like some kinda Jump Man level, though this here is a Jump Frog.

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Contra: Legacy of War (PS1) (1996) 4/4

The game also offers four playable characters, with Tasha here, an intergalactic mercenary made of chromed metal, wearing a red top and brown shorts, wielding a green gun as she stands in front of a large green wall with turrets and a red blinking glass eye in a very Contra fashion.

I've used a hacked cam here to bring the camera to the back of the characters, making it look like a more modern third person shooter (albeit with a very pixelated 2D character), showing a different perspective of what the game might look like.

A sepia brownish cobblestone paved street with the two other selectable characters, the shiny purple robot CD-288, the hulking Robocop-Samus hybrid with a gun for a hand, and the more humanoid gray xenomorph guy called Bubba, while a couple of enemy soldiers approach from the other end of the street.

As you defeat the evil guy, you are pulled into the dark virtual reality slash mind of Colonel Bassad, his creepy green face wobbling in the background of a pitch-black void as you walk on a digital grid, often forming letters and words before a boss fight like this cyberspace spider-bot with a turret on top. The words spell out the unsettling message "COME WITH ME TO HE HELL DAMNED". Hardcore dude!

I shouldn't forget to mention that this game was developed by Novotrade (later called Appaloosa Interactive like at the time of developing this game). They're of course the Hungarian dev team most well known for making the Ecco the Dolphin games as well as a number of C64, Amiga and SEGA Genesis games, so the home computer and demoscene roots, as well as the Genesis vibes are extremely visible here in some of the character pixel art and texture work.

Be sure to check out Moleman 4: Longplay, a documentary talking about the Hungarian scene in the 80s and the developers and games that came out of that highly-technical and talented pool of programmers and artists (and also just check out the entire Moleman series of documentaries, good stuff!)

Finally, Ray arrives at the small brown planet full of red wormy veins on its fleshy brown surface, jumping around in low gravity as he shoots down a bunch of snakey plant monsters and fly traps, hopefully defeating the alien menace once and for all. (hint, he did not)

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Contra: Legacy of War (PS1) (1996) 3/4

Ray enters a hut in the jungle and is greeted with a bar with some bar stools (one is fallen over on the side) and two arcade machines with the words ARCADE CLASSIC displayed on their monitors.

The first arcade game is Pac Tank, as the name implies, it's a Pac-Man clone with a maze filled with green, legally distinct orbs, but this time you're driving a tank, which can drive backwards and also has to pause every time you want to turn to a different direction.

As a tank, you also have the power to shoot (I know, controversial) as the maze has a few barricades you can destroy as well as enemy tanks that you can shoot.

The second game is straight up Gyruss, flying through a starfield, rotating your spaceship on the edges of the screen as formations of bug-like enemies fly in.

A funny moment ensues when you exit the arcade hut as a squad of enemies have just been waiting outside to ambush you, while honestly being very polite to let you play a few games and then try to kill you, which is nice.

Ray doesn't think that's nice and starts shooting at them.

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Contra: Legacy of War (PS1) (1996) 2/4

Ray encounters a giant turtle robot in the jungle, its shell filled with tubes and a spine-like structure while its neck elongates and gets its purple-eyed head closer as it starts breathing fire at our hero.

The game is very brownish-bronze a lot of the time, reminding me a bit of Quake's palette, with this long tunnel with lots of high-tech arches and doodads housing a giant scorpion monster with two adorable black eyes, walking on the walls and ceiling as Ray shoots his pew pew.

The tunnel leads to a bulkhead door on an ancient stone wall as eggs star falling from the ceiling, spawning little wormy monsters and then a huge green mosquito with yellow eyes and a sharp red stinger descends as well, looking dang angry.

Ray's mission seems more dangerous than anticipated as he's now falling down a very deep and long hole, its walls filled with tubes and grates as a big floating green probe droid starts falling as well, matching your speed just as a courtesy while his robo hands start shootin' at ya.

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Contra: Legacy of War (PS1) (1996) 1/4

A muscly soldier with a backpack and green camo pants stands, or rather hovers on the construction beams next to a river of lava, separating him (and a lone enemy soldier that's just watching in awe at the guy floating on this non-platform) and the other side, a raised platform partially hiding the misty jungles and beautiful orange sunset skies, as a huge robotic drone flies in.

The soldier's name: Ray Poward. The mission? Stop Colonel Bassad and his army of soldiers, mutants, aliens and alien mutant soldiers in this first attempt at thrusting the Contra series into the third dimension, with beautiful 2D pixel art characters and snazzy textures with 3D environments and bosses. It didn't work out quite that well, but the game is still pretty to look at.

Mr. Poward powars through the deep jungle, sinking his boots into both mud and fern as he walks past alien installations and ancient ruins with a small enemy tank with a turret blasting fire at our boy Ray.

Another mission takes Roy on a blue sci-fi speedboat, driving around a lake until he arrives at a pile of junk that starts hovering and assembles into some kind of robot made out of tubes, truck tires and various radiators.

This mission gets more bizarre as time goes on as Ray enters a dark chamber with a floating brain and eyes, defended by a force field made out of creepy skull faces lit up in rainbow colors, in an annoying and long battle of the bouncing brain playing hard to kill.

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Mario Kart 64 (N64) (1997) 3/3

Mario drifting down a well lit brick layered tunnel with a very cozy and liminal space atmosphere, forever trapped in an endless loop of tunnels, while Peach uses her near infinite wealth to create a clone and that's the Mario that we know today.

Wario driving around Bowser's Castle through the courtyard with a big stone statue of the baby-shaped Bowser blowing a thick burst of fire coming out of its mouth.

Bowser's Castle is full of danger, with a long corridor paved with a red carpet leading to two blue Thwomps, their grumpy faces eagerly awaiting the rushing racers to smash their heads in, while a third Thwomp sits angrily behind prison bars, making you think what the hell did he actually do to deserve to be locked up.

Yoshi riding on the rainbowy road of Rainbow Road, a racetrack in space made out of pure light, with neon shapes and faces of Mario and a smiling Boo forming in the distance as the track twirls and curves around a giant golden star with a smiling face.

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Mario Kart 64 (N64) (1997) 2/3

Mario showing off in 1st place while doing a sick drift in Luigi Raceway, with a big display over a tunnel entrance broadcasting the race. A big puffy E comes out of the kart's exhaust as Mario drifts, signifying just how encredible he is.

The Wario Stadium, a muddy motocross track with jumbotrons and giant lights creating a spectacle for the massive crowds on the distant rafters and a big rotating sign with red letters spelling out WARIO.

Bowser being chased by the soulless monster that is Yoshi, driving on the dark wooden paths of the Banshee Boarwalk as a giant pogging Cheep Cheep fishy jumps out of the darkness and over the track with a sense of childlike wonder in its eyes.

Donkey Kong driving down the dirt road of Choco Mountain as the racers approach a naturally formed pyramid with two little cave openings for eyes and a tunnel for a mouth doing a big AAAAAAAAAA.

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Mario Kart 64 (N64) (1997) 1/3

Princess Peach spending 1% of her generational wealth into turning her entire world into various race tracks is exactly the kind of issue Mushroom Kingdom has to deal with on a daily basis.

Peach invites her friends and keeping her enemies closer to a racetravaganza and the winner might even get a kiss on the cheek (except Mario... fuck that guy).

Speaking of that guy, Mario sits at the comfortable 8th place as all the racers wait at the start line to begin the race through the Luigi Raceway, a lovely grassy area with trees and puffy white clouds in the bright blue skies, adding salt to injury that his brother's racetrack is the first in the game.

Speaking of the enviously green Luigi, him and his friends DK and Yoshi are breaking all traffic regulations as they do a tight left turn on Toad's Turnpike past some cars and trucks.

Princess Peach being a bit of a shit racer as she's struggling in 4th place, driving over a long suspended wooden bridge next to a waterfall in D.K.'s Jungle Parkway, going into a cave as the aforementioned Donkey Kong flashes in all the rainbow colors and is about to bump Peach off the bridge.

Welp, there goes all the funding for the championship.

The wintery nights of the Frappe Snowland are covering all the racers in a gentle snowfall as they do a right turn through some curvy roads, approaching a giant snowy statue of Yoshi in the distance, a monument to his cold, dead heart and the numerous sacrifices he mlemmed with his long, sensual tongue.

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Extreme Go-Kart Racing (PS1) (2003) 2/2

If we can have a captain called Captain, we sure as hell can have a cactus called Cactus, and he's a rootin' tootin' gunman of the ol' Wild West, wearing a large hat and an orange bandana, he's riding into the sunset... well, over a wooden bridge and into a canyon with a red sign signifying a sharp right turn.

The blonde Princess Lara, driving a fashionable pink go-kart through the desert track and under some ancient square arches covered in hieroglyphs, depicting a scarab, a bull and a quacky duck.

Some might say that the only reason I posted this game is to show this guy and his name, and they would be right.

One of the four unlockable characters is an ancient Mesoamerican warrior with a traditional mask and headwear, described as "The last remaining survivor of a long lost race of people." and his name is Woot.

Woot driving on the Rainbow Road equivalent called the Space Course, driving his stone statue go-kart with curiously ample, round buttocks as he drifts on a planetary ring in space, surrounded by colorful squiddly aliens, wearing hats and waving flags, all looking kinda bummed for being in this game.

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Extreme Go-Kart Racing (PS1) (2003) 1/2

Also known as Kart Race Kimete wa Drift! and WaiWai Kart for its PS3/PSP re-release, this one's a pretty budget-feelin' kart racer with pre-rendered 2D characters on 3D race tracks, like our hero Joe in his silver go-kart, wearing an orange helmet with a red stripe, racing through a nice race track surrounded by grass mowed in brighter and darker stripes, just about the pass the checkpoint near the crowd stands and yonder towards a jumbotron display showing the race, glistening under the SEGA-blue skies and puffy clouds made out of foam balls.

Eri is a little blonde girl in a red winter coat and hoodie, kinda looking like Kenny from South Park seen from the back, riding on a basket with wheels and joined by her trusty pal penguin Tobi.

They're racing through a cold, snowy racetrack with a big drowsy polar bear sitting on a raised frozen platform with some of his penguin friends, all pre-rendered in a very cute style.

The pirate captain called Captain, wearing a red captain suit and hat befitting a pirate captain called Captain, riding a powder cannon with three small boosters in the back and driving on a series of grassy islands with palm trees, aiming towards a wooden bridge and a pirate ship shooting cannon balls at this cannon riding captain Captain.

Gigi the bushy-haired caveman riding a chunk of meat with the bone protruding from the back, and four wheels stuck on it with smaller bones, with a missed opportunity to call his vehicle the Bonermobile, driving on the underwater sea bed as he approaches a Japanese looking castle surrounded by red walls.

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The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling 4/4

Another very gnarly look at the urban prehistoric civilization with a muddy wasteland with rocky skyscrapers and a path filled with blue jewels leading to the great Rockzilla, a very blocky green lizard guy, spreading his arms wide like he wants to just give you a hug.

Two peculiar triangles over Rockzilla's chest make it look like it either has hairy boobs or is wearing a tight mesh bra.

The clueless Dino is transported to the planet Zetox, the home of the Great Gazoo, a rocky world with some very colorful tunnels, making it looks like the little pink dinosaur is trippin' balls.

Dino rolls through some tunnels and past some green glassy orbs with green electricity zapping between them as he turns towards the camera, revealing that his eyes are bloodshot, implying that he might actually be trippin' balls.

Fred Flintstone standing next to the rocky half bowl and a tall, rotating bowling trophy that's taller than him with the words "FRED WINS !!" written on the bottom of the screen.

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The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling 3/4

A bonus level in Barney's backyard with a giant round drained pool, rolling past his house and on the rim of the pool, collecting purple crystals and giant bowling pins as Fred's wife Wilma relaxes on a lawn chair. Turns out that Barney is the alpha chud in this relationship and Fred was the cuck all along.

Pebbles reaching the finish line on the shore of the ocean near some palm trees, eyes wide open, staring down and shrugging with her little baby hands like "the fuck is this shit?"

Another bonus level where Barney gets his comeuppance as he rides the Water Buffalo Lodge, a round trench arena with a full crowd in the rafters and an actual buffalo chasing the little blonde bastard, pushing his rocky bowl with Barney looking absolutely terrified.

Fred rolls down the snakey, swirling alien tracks of Gazoo's Asteroid, with another very Amiga-coded neon green to blue gradient in the background and Gazoo's big floating head in a bubble, looking at Fred's death defying stunts.

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The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling 2/4

Barney rolling through a prehistoric highway with a small van or bus driving past on the right side, looking like it's made of cardboard, and I'm guessing an apartment building on the left that looks like a square rock with holes carved in, feeling like some sort of spider mutants are just about to start crawling out of them.

The game has pretty low draw distance but most of the levels have at least some nice gradient colors for the backgrounds, while this one has just the poopiest of brown colors, and with all the gnarly textures covering the surfaces, it looks like some artsy modern horror indie game with deliberately low effort graphics and an unsettling atmosphere.

Pebbles rolling over a flimsy wooden bridge past a waterfall, some shrubs and a palm tree as she enters the underground river cave.

Dino the pink pet dinosaur flying off a cliff and into a river of lava, with shriveled trees arching over the flowing torrent of hell as the level struggles to materialize in front of him, just showing an amazing red to yellow gradient, straight out of an Amiga game.

Barney rolling around the tar pits and desecrating the spinal cord and rib cage of some giant dinosaur remains, all for the love of the sport.

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The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling 1/4

Mr. Slate, Fred's boss is breaking his stones again (giggidy), telling him that he has to finish digging a trench by tomorrow morning or he's fired, while Barney rolls along and tells Fred they have to practice for the bowling tournament.

Fred wishes that he could somehow work and bowl at the same time and a tiny floating green alien guy with a big helmet pops in, called the Great Gazoo, snaps his fingers and creates numerous trenches and canyons, populating them with gems and bowling pins, and gives Fred a hollowed out half-bowl to sit in as he slides down the levels, hitting sparsely placed bowling pins and other obstacles in something that has almost nothing to do with bowling.

Here we have Fred sliding down the neck of a big orange dinosaur as he approaches the finish flag.

Fred and Barney, as the irresponsible fathers that they are, let their infant children take a roll down the dangerous trenches, with Pebbles here goo-gooing and ga-gaaing to the right towards a big purple flower and past a small pond with a geyser and a cute pink elephant that's just having a nice shower.

Barney rolls into the boney mouth of a giant dinosaur skeleton with its spine and ribs visible yonder.

Bamm-Bamm sliding through the Crystal Caves and into a dimly lit chamber with several small pockets of glowing green goo, creating an eerie atmosphere while bowling pins and purple crystals float all willy nilly around the level.

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Dinomaster Party (PS1) (2002)

A colorful little party game with cute baby dinosaurs and a horrifying story about the extinction of the dinosaurs, with only a few eggs surviving so the baby dinos need to fight in a series of mini-games to determine who will be the new top honcho (well, I say "series", but there's only four, so technically I'm correct, and that's the best kind of correct), all happening on a 7 by 7 square grid.

Here we have Dinosquare, with the goal to connect one side of the board to the other, whether creating a straight line or a larger area, and get some points. The 2D drawn character portraits fit the 3D models pretty well with the baby T-Rex having a smug smile with a squinting side eye.

The Meteor Shower mini-game is set on a backdrop of a purple volcano with three caves occupying a square on the board, so the catch is to hide inside one of the caves while a hot meteor falls down and kills the one cute baby dino that didn't manage to hide in time.

This is a game for little children.

Some rocky canyons with little patches of grass are the stage of Rockpush, another mini-game where round yellow rocks fall onto the board and you can kick them around to hit your opponents, knocking them off, for here can be only one!

The Free for All stage inside a cave filled with yellow hot lava, and as the name suggests, you just punch each other and push the little baby dinosaurs into the scorching hell pit, saving them the pain of living in this doomed world where their species are pretty much extinct already, letting them fade away into myth and legend.

You can also jump to pick up some apples and pieces of meat to regain your health!