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  • Super Putty (Super Nintendo)

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    Source: Game Players – Issue Number 37 – February 1994


    I remember it seemed like almost every game for the Super Nintendo had the word “Super” in front of it. Perhaps it makes some sense with Super Putty. I mean would anyone buy a game named “Putty”? In any case, the protagonist is a ball of putty with super powers so the designation fits…

    Super Putty is a fairly typical 2D platformer. You play the role of the um… blob of putty. But it is super putty after all. You have the ability to stretch, absorb and bounce among other things. Your mission is to rescue and destroy. That is, destroy whatever you are not rescuing.

    This does not seem to have been a particularly popular or well known game. At least I don’t recall it from back in the day. However, it got pretty good reviews overall and it really isn’t a bad game. It’s just that there were a LOT of 2D platformers to choose from that time period and this one doesn’t necessarily stand out. Kind of like first person shooters today. Super Putty adds quite a bit of humor to the mix which is a plus. If there is a complaint to be made, I guess its that things can get a little repetitive after a while.

    Super Putty was developed by System 3 and was also released for the Amiga and Amiga CD32. If you like 2D platformers than this is worth trying. You’ll have to track down an original copy (not too hard) or resort to emulation though as I don’t think this is a game that has been re-released on modern platforms.

    The review above was taken from the February 1994 issue of Game Players magazine.


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  • Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye (Super NES)

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    Review of Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye by Activision for the Super Nintendo from the February 1993 issue of Game Player’s.

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    Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye

    Leslie Mizell

    Cheers for Activision – instead of doing a strict translation when they ported their computer game Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye to SNES, they actually made improvements that cause the Super Nintendo version to surpass the original!

    Shanghai, a solitaire version of the ancient Chinese game mahjongg, is one of the best strategy games around. You set up a game board called a dragon using 144 tiles in seven different suits. There are single tiles along the edges of the dragon, but the closer you get to the center, the higher the tiles are stacked. The object is to remove matching tiles until the board is cleared. however, you can remove only tiles that are “free,” not boxed in by tiles on both sides.

    There’s a terrific variety of tile sets in Shanghai II. In addition to the classic Chinese figures, try playing with the fantasy set or the flags of the world. Activision has added more sets than in the computer version, so you can even play with fish tiles or other wacky sets.

    Special options include two-player competition and tournament games, a time limit for plays, 13 different tile configurations, and a special “Dragon’s Eye” game that’s completely different.

    In short, here’s a simple game to learn and play that’s done to perfection.

    Source: Game Players – February 1993 – Page 66






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