Awesome Possum

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Awesome Possum

Developer(s)	Tengen
Publisher(s)	Tengen
Platform(s)	Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Release date	1993
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	GA

Awesome Possum is a video game created by Tengen for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis that was released in the early 1990s. The game borrows heavily from Sonic the Hedgehog, featuring an anthropomorphic character who battles a mad scientist and his army of robots to save the world, and has the ability to spin to attack enemies.

Unlike Sonic, Awesome Possum includes environmental activist elements, with the character collecting empty bottles and cans instead of coins or rings, and answering questions about the environment to earn bonus points in his fight against the evil Dr. Machino.

The game is generally disliked by gamers because of poor responsiveness to controls^{[citation needed]}. It was notable for its time for having many lines of digitized speech, a feature which the game was marketed with, but the feature has been felt as annoying by most of gamers.^[who?]