Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Sega CD video game)
| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers | |
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 North American cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Sega TruVideo |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Platform(s) | Sega CD |
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| Genre(s) | Interactive movie |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is a video game for the Sega CD console. It was produced by Sega TruVideo and released by Sega in US and Europe in 1994. The game consists mostly of footage from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series, which featured footage from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.
Gameplay
The game play is similar to that of the arcade game Dragon's Lair, as players to have press certain buttons at precise moments throughout the game as they appear on screen. Giving the illusion that the player is controlling the Power Rangers. If the player misses or presses out at random, the game will make a buzz sound. The screen will shake and his or her health meter will drop. However, there are points in the game where players can press a button unprompted for extra points. At the end of each level, the player's progress is tallied. At which the points earned will be used to refill his or her health meter and can even score an extra life. Footage use was episodes from the television series. This footage was heavily cut down for disc space and level length. As a result, the five-part Green With Evil serial was turned into four small segments.
Levels
The game has a total of ten levels. Levels six and seven are playable only on normal and hard modes, and levels eight, nine, and ten are playable only on hard mode.
- Creation of the Power Rangers
- Green With Evil: Part One
- Green With Evil: Part Two
- Green With Evil: Part Three
- Green With Evil: Part Four
- The Green Candle: Part One
- The Green Candle: Part Two
- The Crystal of Nightmares
- Doomsday: Part One
- Doomsday: Part Two
Reception
In their review, GamePro remarked that the use of actual Power Rangers footage would make it appeal to fans of the show, but that the quick time event gameplay is overly simplistic and forces the player to choose between enjoying the footage and keeping an eye on the on-screen directions which they must follow to keep advancing.[1] The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it a unanimous score of 4 out of 10, panning the game for its poor video quality and limited interactivity.[2]
References
- ↑ "ProReview: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers". GamePro (67) (IDG). February 1995. p. 52.
- ↑ "Review Crew: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers". Electronic Gaming Monthly (Ziff Davis) (67): 34. February 1995.