Preview: The 6/26/09 RRR

For this “mascot” character, hard times just doesn’t seem like the proper term. He was never on top of the world of gaming, but his older games were very much playable, and even somewhat enjoyable (yet quite hard), making him known to most gamers. With two showings during his first era in the console gaming world, his first “true” next generation showing on home consoles would prove to be somewhat ambitious. For its time, it was a pretty good question — “how can we take the pace of our 2D side scrolling game, and implant it into the newer 3D world?”

Needless to say, without going much further into WHO this character was, he was never heard from again after his first foray into the 3D realm. But why? Was that a sendoff? Did the company move onto something bigger and better? Did it suck so bad that they tried to ignore the fact that this character, and its games, ever existed? Just who is this groovy cat, and what game is this character in? Can you make out the horribly done distortion up top? Tune in this Friday for a can’t-miss Retro Re-Review to see who this character is, what the game was and more importantly, many questions asking “WHY?!”

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