Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Time Cruise for TurboGrafx-16


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Time Cruise

The other TG-16 pinball game


Genre: arcade - pinball

Publisher: TTI

Year: 1992

System: TurboGrafx-16


Gameplay Score: 3

Gameplay Notes:

Screen scrolls like Devil's Crush. Makes it hard to react as you can't see what's below you.


Level Design Score: 2

Level Design Notes:

Big table, with three levels and two columns connected horizontally. But each level is so boring that it doesn't feel very large. It's hard to move around the levels and again, there's barely anything to hit. Also the tables are so busy with colored elements which do nothing that it's hard to see what can be interacted with.


Theme Score: 2

Theme Notes:

I guess you're traveling through time or something. Maybe. It's got a "futuristic" theme that feels like a cross between Logan's Run and Batman Forever. Everything is neon colored and full of blinking diodes. Blech


Art Style Score: 2

Art Style Notes:

Oops I should've complained about the 80s futuristic vibe here. It's a mess of busy, neon colors drizzled over a brown brick background. I imagine a homeless guy eating a box of Neon Crayola Crayons in an alley and vomiting them on the side of a building. Oh and the scrolling is choppy which makes it even less visually appealing.


Audio Score: 2

Audio Notes:

Serviceable music and sound effects


Overall Score: 50

Review ID: 1506



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