Radical Rex

Radical Rex
North American SNES Cover art
Developer(s)	Beam Software
Publisher(s)	Activision
Producer(s)	Tom Sloper
Composer(s)	Marshall Parker (Sega CD version)
Platform(s)	SNES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega CD
Release date(s)	NA October 1994 PAL 1994
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player
Media/distribution	Cartridge, CD-ROM

Radical Rex is a 1 or 2-player platforming video game released in 1994 for North America, Europe and Australia. It was published by Activision and developed by Australian game studio, Beam Software (later became: Krome Studios Melbourne) for the Super Nintendo, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and Sega CD. The game stars Radical Rex, a skateboarding, fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus rex. During production, this game was originally titled: "Baby T-Rex".

Gameplay

Radical Rex is a relatively simple game, where the protagonist, Radical Rex must save his land, and his girlfriend Rexanne, from an evil magician named Sethron. In his way are dinosaurs, sea creatures, and other monsters. Rex has a few abilities, including a roar that kills or hurts all enemies on screen, a fire breath which can temporarily immobilize enemies, and a bubble spray which he can use while under water. Strangely, Sethron is replaced by a Gopher like mammal named Skriitch in the Mega Drive/Genesis and Sega CD versions. Despite this, the Gopher acts the same as its Super NES Counterpart.

Controls

Super Nintendo version

• • B Button - Jump
  • Y Button - Breath Fire / Blow Bubbles (underwater)
  • A Button - Kick
  • X Button - Roar
  • L/R Shoulder Buttons - Thrash Skateboard

Sega Megadrive/Mega-CD versions

• • A Button - Kick / Roar (D-Pad Up+A)
  • B Button - Breath Fire / Thrash Skateboard / Blow Bubbles (underwater)
  • C Button - Jump

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Trivia

• The Sega CD version of the game has a CD Redbook Audio quality soundtrack composed by Marshall Parker.

Reception

The game has received mostly mixed reviews.

For the Super Nintendo version, Electronic Gaming Monthly has awarded the game with a 5.5 out of 10.0, while Nintendo Power has voted it a 3.4 out of 5.0. ^[2]

GameFAQs holds a 8.5 for the Rating Average score, for the Mega Drive version. ^[3]

Sega-16 has gave the Mega CD version a 4.0 out of 10.0 as it was criticized for utilizing the "extreme bad attitude" fad that was being popular through Pop culture throughout the 1990s, that the game has offered and also claimed to have a lack of originality. Also criticized for being a repetitive Straight-forward platforming elements within it's gameplay and graphic wise, cheap obstacles and frustratingly difficult bosses. ^[4]

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References

External links

• Radical Rex at MobyGames

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