90s Sonic Knockoffs and our experiences with them.

I still don't see how Brutal Paws of Fury is a "Sonic knockoff"; it's a fighting game, not a platformer.

The only thing I can assume you mean is because it's got anthropomorphic characters in it, which is laughable, seeing as Sonic wasn't the first game to use such a concept. Going by that logic, Primal Rage is a Yoshi's Island knockoff because both have dinos in it. Yeah.

Ufff I don't think there's a PS3 or PSP emulator for Zool 2. Unless there's an Amiga emulator for PS3.. must look into it.

The anthro-animal flood in the 90's pissed me off so bad. Other than Sonic I hated anthro-animal games. Sonic was cool and different. It was a badass hedgehog that could go really fast, fighting a legion of robots and a mad scientist. The rest of them were crap to me. I was used to games with mean looking dudes shooting or beating the crap out of bunches of other mean looking dudes. When I was eleven I was taking on big boss Willy's machine gun toting ass with just my fists in Double Dragon. Then, in my teens, I'm supposed to accept a bunch of cuddly bouncing around bullshit as the new norm? It didn't matter what kind of scores the magazines gave them, I wouldn't have bought a cartoon animal game if it killed me (other than sonic). Even Earthworm Jim and Rocket Knight Adventures got the stink eye back then.

What hurts the most, though, is knowing that groups like Sunsoft could have been making a decent Blaster Master game while they churned out Aero the Acrobat sequels. D;

I'll add that Duck Tales and Chip n' Dales RR were cool just because I grew up with the cartoons, and capcom was awesome back then. Also Battletoads, Battletoads kicked ass, but those were the only cartoon animal games I played.

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Originally Posted by Da_Shocker

I bought both Brutal games for the SCD and 32X back in the early 2000 and well they both sucked to say the least. I do remember playing Jill of the Jungle at my local library back in the early 90s on that 386sx with no soundcard lol.

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I played the HELL out of Jill of the Jungle on an old 1989 386 SX over at this group center run by MHRA way back in 1994. I too played it without audio compression for music. Beat it like 3 times over a weekend.

Played Brutal on all three platforms it was availible for in 1994. It was utterly crappy on the 16-bit machines.

Has anyone played Freedom Planet?

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Originally Posted by MrSega

Played Brutal on all three platforms it was availible for in 1994. It was utterly crappy on the 16-bit machines.

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Brutal was available for more than 3 platforms. There was a SNES, Genesis, and Sega CD versions you mentioned in addition to a 32X version (which was greatly enhanced and sort of like the "Champion Edition" to the normal brutal), a DOS version (based on the enhanced updated game), an Amiga 500 version (the lead platform, actually), and an Amiga CD32 version (which the 32X and DOS versions are based off).

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Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard

Jazz Jackrabbit is it's own thing, and it's great.

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This game IS great. One of the last great shareware games before all those companies went prime time.

"Socket"/"Time Dominator" for the SEGA Genesis/Japanese Mega Drive. Although the game gets knocked around for being a Sonic clone, I enjoyed it. I was surprised to learn recently that the game never made it to PAL regions.

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Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard

Brutal was available for more than 3 platforms. There was a SNES, Genesis, and Sega CD versions you mentioned in addition to a 32X version (which was greatly enhanced and sort of like the "Champion Edition" to the normal brutal), a DOS version (based on the enhanced updated game), an Amiga 500 version (the lead platform, actually), and an Amiga CD32 version (which the 32X and DOS versions are based off).

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I never played the 32X or DOS versions. It is my understanding that both ports came out ini

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Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard

Brutal was available for more than 3 platforms. There was a SNES, Genesis, and Sega CD versions you mentioned in addition to a 32X version (which was greatly enhanced and sort of like the "Champion Edition" to the normal brutal), a DOS version (based on the enhanced updated game), an Amiga 500 version (the lead platform, actually), and an Amiga CD32 version (which the 32X and DOS versions are based off).

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I never played the 32X or DOS versions. It is my understanding that both ports came out in '95 & that the 32X port is extremely shoddy.

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Originally Posted by MrSega

I never played the 32X or DOS versions. It is my understanding that both ports came out in '95 & that the 32X port is extremely shoddy.

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The 32X version likely was released in 95, and I dunno about the DOS version, but they're both based off of the CD32 version which released alongside the Amiga 500 version originally, and are the source of every other ports.

I dunno if it's really shoddy. All ports seem about equal. The Amiga versions, being the lead platforms, are likely the best.

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Originally Posted by old man

The anthro-animal flood in the 90's pissed me off so bad. Other than Sonic I hated anthro-animal games. Sonic was cool and different. It was a badass hedgehog that could go really fast, fighting a legion of robots and a mad scientist. The rest of them were crap to me. I was used to games with mean looking dudes shooting or beating the crap out of bunches of other mean looking dudes. When I was eleven I was taking on big boss Willy's machine gun toting ass with just my fists in Double Dragon. Then, in my teens, I'm supposed to accept a bunch of cuddly bouncing around bullshit as the new norm? It didn't matter what kind of scores the magazines gave them, I wouldn't have bought a cartoon animal game if it killed me (other than sonic). Even Earthworm Jim and Rocket Knight Adventures got the stink eye back then.

What hurts the most, though, is knowing that groups like Sunsoft could have been making a decent Blaster Master game while they churned out Aero the Acrobat sequels. D;

I'll add that Duck Tales and Chip n' Dales RR were cool just because I grew up with the cartoons, and capcom was awesome back then. Also Battletoads, Battletoads kicked ass, but those were the only cartoon animal games I played.

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I'll admit I did enjoy both Awesome Possum and at least the first Bubsy game. I remember Kaneko's FAILED attempt in America with Socks The Cat and thought it looked quite interesting.


http://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/14/s...ll-unreleased/

Aero The Acrobat was a very odd experiment as Sunsoft was attempting to break the "hit-or-miss" licensed platform stereotype that plagued them at the time.

Battletoads with more of a TMNT knockoff, but unlike Cheetahman it was a good one.

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The 32X version likely was released in 95, and I dunno about the DOS version, but they're both based off of the CD32 version which released alongside the Amiga 500 version originally, and are the source of every other ports.

I dunno if it's really shoddy. All ports seem about equal. The Amiga versions, being the lead platforms, are likely the best.

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It must of been a snap to port and convert CD32 games over to 32X and DOS at the time.


Another infamous Sonic knock-off at the time was the British bred Alfred Chicken released in late 1993. Brought to you by Mindscape and Twilight.

Stupid game with goofy concept and inane gameplay.

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I have the Amiga version of Alfred chicken. Fun game.

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I have the Amiga version of Alfred chicken. Fun game.

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Weird and really inane. I played the NES version(one of the last NES games I ever played.) You could tell it was trying desperately to be different.