A port of RollerGames
Is nothing sacred? RollerGames, the 21st Century's most popular thrill sport, is the latest victim of V.I.P.E.R. (Vicious International Punks and Eternal Renegades). With their greedy eyes on RollerGames' mega prize money, they've corrupted three teams and kidnapped Emerson "Skeeter" Bankhead, the games' beloved commissioner. You and your own three teams of righteous skate kings must stop V.I.P.E.R.'s criminal venom from infecting the entire city. So you've got to take the fight to the streets. And the sewers, and the junkyards, and the highways and the jungles . . . through six stages of dastardly traps of doom as you leap over open manholes, careening oil drums and treacherous land-slides. Race around oil slicks and man-eating canines. And avoid ambush by combat copters, bomb-wielding goons and creeps like Captain Meat Hook and the Fish Face. But time is against you. And so are V.I.P.E.R.'s judo masters, skateboard thugs, motorcycle madmen and other assorted sinister scum. If your multi-faceted fists can't punch you through, you'll need your special assault body blocks, jump kicks and double whammy slams. It's a bone-crunching skate-athon for your life, Skeeter's life, and for the good of RollerGames. So vanquish V.I.P.E.R. before they melt your ball bearings into bullets.
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As you would imagine from a game called "Rollergames" you're on rollerskates the entire time for this game, and this game will absolutely expect you to platform in them and you will learn to despise slopes once you're done with stage 3. It takes some getting used to, but I still found myself falling off shit constantly in the later stages when the game starts really pushing it's platforming on you. Unfortunately, this game has utterly ruthless checkpoint placement or a complete lack of them as is the case of the highway stages, which turns the entire game into a case of getting used to bad control and trial-and-error due to the fact that 95% of your deaths are gonna be via falling into pits and water.
Get accidentally run over and killed in one hit by the fucking truck boss in the second highway stage? Tough shit, do that entire two-minute autoscroller over again. Sounds fun right? It's not. The actual "beat'em up" portions where you fight guys two at a time in-between those obstacle course segments are complete cake in comparison, it's barely even worth talking about. I always wondered why I didn't remember much after the first stage in this game and I can kinda see why, I didn't stand a fucking chance against this game at four years old. Fortunately the devs throw the player a bit of a bone and let you continue indefinitely, but even with them your patience is going to be really tested if you don't resort to save states.
The game is kinda fun for the first stage, but pretty much once you hit that first highway stage is when the fun factor starts going down. The music is great, but that's probably the only good thing I have to say about it, aside from it having a playable girl with pink hair.