Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt

Awesome Possum
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Tengen
Publisher(s)	Tengen
Composer(s)	Earl Vickers Doug Brandon Nu Romantic
Platforms	Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Release date(s)
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player

Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt is a video game created by Tengen for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis that was released in early 1993. It also had many lines of digitized speech, unusual for its time, a feature with which the game was marketed. The box also states "it is an excellent educational game for all ages".

Gameplay

This video game features an anthropomorphic possum character who battles a mad scientist and his army of robots to save the world.

Awesome Possum includes environmental activist elements, with the character collecting empty bottles and cans, and answering questions about the environment to earn bonus points in his fight against the evil Dr. Machino. There are also various other animals located within levels which the character can ride to activate their ability, such as a bee which allows the character to fly or a rhino that catapults the character. There are a total of four worlds which together consist of 13 levels all together plus 12 bonus stages alongside the quiz which the character must collect as many recyclables as possible before the time expires.

Voice artists

• Walter Fields
• Laura Amat
• Douglas Lawrence

Reception

Reception was generally negative, with much of the criticism directed towards its perceived priority focus on the game's speech feature and its environmental message, as well as on the game's animation of the characters, which consists of four frames of animation for each character move. Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game 6.5 out of 10. Sega-16 gave the game 2 out of 10.

External links

• Awesome Possum at MobyGames