Rocky Rodent
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Rocky Rodent is a video game for Super Nintendo Entertainment System, released in 1993.
| Rocky Rodent | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Irem America |
| Publisher(s) | Irem America |
| Platform(s) | Super NES |
| Release date | SNES NA 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | 6.9 Gamespot |
| Media | Cartridge |
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[edit] Gameplay
As Rocky Rodent, you play a Rodent who must use four various hairstyles to rescue the daughter of the owner of Rocky's favorite eatery. Rocky Rodent is a platform game with 6 levels with multiple stages, similar to a cross between Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Brothers.
[edit] Plot
Our story begins with Rocky eating at an all-you-can-eat restaurant owned by a man flatteringly named Pie Face Balboa. In the course of your gourmet rampage through the restaurant, Rocky, without realizing it, eats an envelope full of cash. This cash was protection money that Balboa intended to pay to the local mafia. When the mobsters find out that they won't be getting their money, they kidnap Balboa's daughter and flee in a Depression-era getaway car. Balboa, in his distress, calls upon Rocky to save her, because he can run really fast, and it will get him away from the food for a little while. Rocky agrees on the condition that he gets free buffet if he succeeds, and subsequently sets off on a whirlwind platforming adventure through six fairly large levels with multiple stages. These include the freeway where Rocky chases down a mob vehicle, a skyscraper under construction, the streets of the city, a haunted hotel, and the mob-owned Red Hot Chili Factory, where the chili looks more like lava than anything edible. [1]
[edit] Reception
Rocky Rodent had a mixed reception. It was critizied for its abrubt and incomplete ending[2] as well as its striking resemblance to Sonic the Hedgehog. More recently the game was ranked 28th out of 30 in a recent N-Sider survey titled "Old School Top 30".
[edit] References
1. n-sider.com article on Rocky Rodent [1]
2. gamespot.com review written by overdrive.
