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50/100
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2.88/5
Player reviews
75% positive12 reviews
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$8.99

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Radical Rex cover

1994 · Remake · Krome Studios Melbourne · Adventure · Platformer

Radical Rex

Remake

Slam through ten wild levels of jammin' jungles, freaked-out forests, haunted dino-graveyards, piranha-infested underwater caverns - and inside a giant dinosaur.

Released
1 September 1994
Platforms
SNESSega CDSega GenesisWindowsXbox Series X/S
Genres
AdventurePlatformerSimulation
Developers
Krome Studios MelbournePiko Interactive
Publishers
QUByte Interactive
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Action
Country
Australia
Age ratings
ESRB EGRAC ALLPEGI 3ACB G
Languages
English
Time to beat
2hmain story3hcompletionist

About

Radical Rex is a 1994 platform video game developed by Beam Software for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Sega Genesis, and Sega CD. It is a remake of the 1993 Game Boy game Baby T-Rex.

A Microsoft Windows port of the SNES version published by Piko Interactive was released on March 7, 2019. Piko also released the game as part of the Piko Interactive Collection 1 for the Evercade on June 8, 2020.

Players say

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Gameplay

The game stars Radical Rex, a skateboarding, fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus rex who must save his land, and his girlfriend Rexanne, from an evil magician named Sethron. In his way are dinosaurs, sea creatures, and other monsters.

Rex has a few abilities, including a roar that kills or hurts all enemies on screen, a fire breath which can temporarily immobilize enemies, and a bubble spray which he can use while underwater. Sethron is replaced by a weasel-like mammal named Skriitch in the Genesis and Sega CD versions. Despite this, the weasel acts the same as its SNES Counterpart.

Reception

Reviewing the Super NES version, GamePro's Bonehead complained that the music becomes repetitive and the player character's skateboard "goes so fast you often miss power-ups and jumps", but praised the cutesy and humorous graphics and the simple enjoyability of the gameplay, and summarized the game as "about as good and as endearing" as the successful Joe and Mac games. A reviewer for Next Generation, on the other hand, gave it a thoroughly negative assessment. He criticized the incongruity between the cheerful, goofy player character and the murky background graphics, and said that though he agreed the gameplay is often reminiscent of Joe and Mac, he called it flat, unmotivating and not in par with other platform games.

GamePro wrote that the Genesis version has slightly less colorful graphics and more muffled sound effects than the Super NES version, and is missing the entertaining intro rap, but that it retains all the essential elements that made the game fun. They concluded that it would appeal to younger gamers but is too easy and cutesy for older gamers. For Sega CD version, they commented that some of the levels and enemies are new, but the graphics and sounds are virtually identical to those on the SNES and Genesis. The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly were more critical, saying the game had nothing but its CD quality soundtrack to justify its presence on the Sega CD. They also criticized the lack of polish in the gameplay and controls.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Sega Genesis1 October 1994Worldwide
SNES1 October 1994Worldwide
Sega CD1 October 1994Worldwide
Windows7 March 2019Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Included in
Piko Interactive Collection 1
Part of
Baby T-Rex
Ported as
QUByte Classics: Radical Rex
Remake of
Baby T-Rex

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