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  • Top Gear 3000 (Super Nintendo)

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    Source: EGM 2 – Issue Number 5 – November 1994

    Top Gear 3000 was the third game in the Top Gear series for the Super Nintendo and was released in 1995. At a glance, the Top Gear series looks very much like Outrun or similar games though it does offer a little more complexity. For instance, Top Gear 3000 allows choosing various cars, automatic or manual transmission, and various futuristic upgrades that give your car special abilities.


    The main difference between Top Gear 3000 and its predecessors was that it was set in the future. Aside from the futuristic upgrades to your car, it didn’t make a whole lot of difference and even those upgrades weren’t really all that important to the game. Visually speaking, it looked much like the previous games in the series.


    The Top Gear series in general and Top Gear 3000 specifically is a pretty average game. A decent arcade racer but not as graphically advanced or sophisticated as other racers of the time. The best feature of Top Gear 3000 is probably the ability to play it as a four player game in Vs. mode with the addition of a multi-tap.


    While there would be several more sequels and spinoffs related to the Top Gear series, as far as I know there has never been a re-release of Top Gear 3000. You’ll need a Super Nintendo or resort to emulation. I haven’t tried this on an emulator, does anybody know if you can play four players with any of the emulators? In my opinion, the four player option is the best reason for owning this one.




  • Stone Protectors (Super Nintendo)

    ‘Stone Protectors’

    [SNES] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1994]

    • via Retro Gaming Australia

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    Stone Protectors was a toy line and a short-lived animated series that seemed to try to take advantage of the popularity of Troll Dolls at the time. Troll Dolls have a long history and are popular even today. Stone Protectors not so much.

    Like many other toy lines that became cartoons (or vice versa), this one also became a video game. It was released by Kemco for the Super Nintendo in 1994. Also, like many others (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being a big exception) it isn’t terribly good. The game was a side-scrolling beat ’em up that had decent graphics but poor animation and control.

    A Sega Genesis version was also completed by Vic Tokai but never officially released. I don’t really know why but I can only guess that after the animated series was cancelled and the toy line didn’t do so well that they determined it wasn’t worth the cost of production. The ROM has since been leaked and can be find in the wild on the net.