Author: dtm666

The Power Rangers… concocted when creator Haim Saban got inspired by Japanese programming to do a show about kids in costumes fighting rubber monsters with their nice weapons and giant Megazord robot. A simple premise that somehow got over with the kids, Power Rangers was a big thing back in its day… and with a big thing comes the video games. While Bandai released some platform-based brawling games for the Game Boy and SNES, Sega released one-on-one fighting games for the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. Those Sega games were actually pretty good and even the Nintendo ones had their moments… but then Sega still had another “console” to make a game for. And so they begat this game for their Sega CD console. Unlike the Genesis and GG versions, this was an Full-Motion-Video style game… much like most of the Sega CD’s library of video games. Now I don’t particularly care for FMV games, but I did play this one since one of my buddies still had a copy… now I wish I hadn’t.

Now before we jump ahead, I should probably let on that I’m into this Power Rangers stuff. I’ve seen the shows and movies, played the games, read some of the comics, and even wrote a few fanfics. It pretty much helped to reinforce my resistance to terrible movies and video games, giving me somewhat jaded tastes. So, in reference to another review for this game, I can stomach this stuff quite well. That having been said, no amount of resistance and stomaching could blind me from seeing what a putrid release I’ve been hit with. It absolutely boggles the mind how something like this came to be.

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