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Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes

Remember that terrible movie “Attack of the Killer
Tomatoes”? Sure it was stupid but it was funny, too!
In case you just couldn’t live without a videogame se-
quel to that masterpiece, you’re in luck!
20th Century Fox flexed its marketing muscle and
dipped into its huge film vault for video game licensing
ideas and came up with. . .Revenge of the Beefsteak
Tomatoes? I realize they gave up the video game
rights to “Star Wars,” but come on!
Surprisingly, “Revenge” has some very original
components to it. The object is to build 3 brick walls
with your bug sprayer over the constantly moving and
shooting tomato plants. While dodging their fire, you
must also avoid giant attacking tomatoes and the
smaller cherry tomato bombs.
Hint: Build your walls from the bottom up.

Overall Rating: B

Mega Force

Mega Force is based on the box office flop of the
same name. The movie was bad. I mean really, really
bad. I also highly recommend it because it’s just that
awful. Surprisingly, the game is pretty good! This
amazes me because bad movies usually spawn really
bad merchandising.
Basic premise: Man your Moto Fighter (a flying mo-
torcycle) through the desert, and defend your city
against various attackers while launching a counterat-
tack on the enemy’s city. Since your Moto Fighter gets
really lousy gas mileage (you lose one gallon per sec-
ond), you need to refuel by shooting the fuel tanks
along the way. What really makes this game fun is that
you can blow up *EVERYTHING*! - Lakes, trees, and
even your own city (and you get points for doing that!).

Overall Rating: B+
King Kong

Rescue the maiden in distress from a giant ape atop
a series of levels connected by ladders. The player must
ascend the ladders while avoiding projectiles that are
rolling towards him.
Donkey Kong rip-off? You betcha! And a bad one at
that! Tigervision licensed King Kong from Universal but
failed to utilize the property to its full potential.
When I think of the Big Ape, I envision him at the top
of the Empire State Building with airplanes buzzing like
flies around his head. It certainly would have been more
interesting to fly a plane, trying to bring King Kong into a
swan dive to the concrete below. And to think this game
was licensed from the company that sued Nintendo
(and lost) for ripping off Donkey Kong from them.

Overall Rating: F

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