I do know, I do know. It’s not only a licensed recreation, it’s a licensed recreation based mostly on a defunct soda mascot. Why on Earth do I really like Cool Spot? Nicely, as a result of it’s superior!

Principally. 

Cool Spot got here out throughout a time when 16-bit video games had been actually hitting their stride by way of animation. A whole lot of the sooner stuff from the 16-bit realm, even the very best of it, nonetheless animated not all that in a different way from the earlier era. However round 1993-1994 there was this shift the place we began seeing quite a few video games take animation actually severely, and the ensuing titles appeared so extremely cool. Disney’s Aladdin on Sega Genesis, Earthworm Jim, video games with easily animated personalities had been popping out of the woodwork, and I actually do not know the way it occurred, however the 7up Mascot wound up on the checklist of properties to get that diploma of royal therapy. 

I bear in mind renting the sport as a result of I noticed a business and thought it appeared neat. The sport performs out from this actually cool perspective of an precise tiny 7up Spot. As in, you’re the scale of a Spot on a bottle of soda. So the world round you seems to be enormous, which is a very enjoyable perspective to make a recreation round. I additionally thought the animation appeared nuts once I noticed the business, so I gave it a go and wow. It is a recreation that basically makes an amazing first impression. 

I performed the Tremendous NES model, which is the one I’m extra accustomed to by far. That mentioned, the Genesis model is sort of equivalent, so I’m pretty assured that regardless of which platform you performed the sport on you had a reasonably related expertise. I bear in mind it was the music that caught my consideration proper off the bat. The sport opens with this goofy rendition of Wipeout and the 7up Spot driving a bottle of soda like a surfboard. It was extraordinarily 90s. Anyway, you begin up the sport on a seaside degree and it’s completely attractive. The music is catchy, there’s an infinite seaside chair, hidden stuff in every single place, crabs attempting to kill you, the works. Spot animates brilliantly, and to my shock it performs out kind of like an exploratory Mega Man recreation. Cool Spot is as a lot a shooter as it’s a platformer, with the flexibility to shoot bubbles in 8 instructions as consistently as you need. 

However what actually sealed the deal for me was Spot himself. He makes an lovable noise every time he does stuff. Coupling that along with his nice animations, and you’ve got the makings of a very charming protagonist. 

The music, visuals, and problem continued to be nice for the subsequent few ranges. The music specifically caught with me, which was supposedly composed by Tommy Tallarico, although nowadays I’ve my doubts he’s ever really written any of the songs he claims to have. However whoever was behind the sport’s soundtrack, it was infectious. Ultimately the problem ratcheted up significantly and levels repeated themselves, which left a little bit of a nasty style in my mouth (not not like 7up! AYOOOOO) however I nonetheless fondly bear in mind my time with the sport. 

It is a disgrace it’ll in all probability by no means discover its method to trendy platforms due to its license, but when these horrible Invoice & Ted video games can get a revival, perhaps there’s hope for Spot sometime! 

When you’ve got the prospect to provide this recreation a go, accomplish that. It looks as if a recipe for catastrophe, however there was some actual care put into this manufacturing, and it’s actually greater than only a crappy product placement tie-in. It’s no masterpiece, however not all the things price taking part in needs to be. Cool Spot is nice.