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Where to get it

1994 · MicroProse Software, Inc. · Platformer · Adventure

Tinhead

Timed Sega exclusive

Once there was peace in the Galaxy. Then the evil Grim Squidge stole all the stars, threatening to hurl the Galaxy into a horrible Cosmic Void. Who will save the stars before it's too late? Tinhead, Defender of the Edge of the Galaxy of course!

Released: 31 December 1994
Platforms: SNES Sega Genesis Windows
Genres: Platformer Adventure Arcade
Developers: MicroProse Software, Inc.
Publishers: Ballistic Piko Interactive MicroProse Software, Inc.
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action Science fiction

About

Tinhead is a 1993 platform video game developed by MicroProse and published by Ballistic for the Sega Genesis. Piko Interactive acquired the rights to the game and released a canceled Super Nintendo Entertainment System version in 2015.

Keywords

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falling object

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

An evil intergalactic goblin named Grim Squidge steals all the stars from the sky with a vacuum cleaner-nosed spaceship, seals them in glass spheres and scatters them far and wide across distant planets, threatening the very infrastructure of spacetime.

On a space station far out in the distant reaches of galactic space, Tinhead, the metallic Guardian of the Edge of the Universe, picks up a distress signal from an unknown friend of the stars. Arming his head-mounted ball bearing gun, he rushes to the stars' rescue.

Reception

Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a score of 6.4 out of 10, commenting that the game is on the hard side but gets by due to useful power-ups and "dynamic" bosses. They cited the graphics as the highlight of the game.