
- 50/100
- Players8 ratings
More scores
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 2.88/5
- Player reviews
- 75% positive12 reviews
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$8.99
Where to get it

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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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
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
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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