I am contractually obligated to inform you that if you take a look at the dumped prototype's name, this game was originally entitled Bioplaything Cop
Gaelco is perhaps one of the most underrated arcade game manufacturers because they'd make these weird games that feel like they dropped out of a parallel reality, and they don't even feel like arcade games, they feel like arcade-exclusive console games, or perhaps Amiga Eurojank
This would've been pretty successful as a 1995 PS1 longbox release standing along the likes of Rayman or Gex or Johnny Bazookatone, it's better than a lot of the second-stringers like that last one, but that's not how Gaelco rolls, if their games released on console then they wouldn't have that "hazy, half-remembered in a dream, easy to forget until some encyclopedic dork like me reminds you that they existed" quality
Four stars out of five, fun-run-and-gun, weird, wild and memorable art direction that's just fun to look at in a Rayman 1 or Yoshi's Island sort of way, shmup-like enemy placement that demands you force your way through hitstun invincibility frames like a quarterback, protagonist has that iconic era-appropriate Sketch Turner from Comix Zone greasy ponytail, you think this is SLICKED back??? This is PUSHED back.
Play Smashing Drive or I'll smash your nuts
Gaelco is perhaps one of the most underrated arcade game manufacturers because they'd make these weird games that feel like they dropped out of a parallel reality, and they don't even feel like arcade games, they feel like arcade-exclusive console games, or perhaps Amiga Eurojank
This would've been pretty successful as a 1995 PS1 longbox release standing along the likes of Rayman or Gex or Johnny Bazookatone, it's better than a lot of the second-stringers like that last one, but that's not how Gaelco rolls, if their games released on console then they wouldn't have that "hazy, half-remembered in a dream, easy to forget until some encyclopedic dork like me reminds you that they existed" quality
Four stars out of five, fun-run-and-gun, weird, wild and memorable art direction that's just fun to look at in a Rayman 1 or Yoshi's Island sort of way, shmup-like enemy placement that demands you force your way through hitstun invincibility frames like a quarterback, protagonist has that iconic era-appropriate Sketch Turner from Comix Zone greasy ponytail, you think this is SLICKED back??? This is PUSHED back.
Play Smashing Drive or I'll smash your nuts