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Review Impossible Mission II (Virtual Console / Commodore 64)

Elvin Atombender is up to his old tricks again!

As soon as Impossible Mission II loads up, the improvements are immediate and obvious. The producers clearly went to work on almost every aspect of the original game, polishing, adding and fixing until this sequel was the result. There are no great changes to the concept; players familiar with the...

• Sat 13th Dec 2008
• Virtual Console
• Reviews
• Retro

Review Ecco Jr. (Virtual Console / Sega Mega Drive)

The aquatic adventures of Ecco come to life for a younger generation of gamers.

Ouch - what happened here? Ecco the Dolphin, suddenly transformed into a kid-friendly educational game? In this game, you play as Ecco Jr., a younger version of Ecco, or one of his two friends (Tara the baby orca or Kitnee the baby Atlantic dolphin). There is no real...

• Tue 27th Nov 2007
• Virtual Console
• Reviews
• Retro

Review Ecco: The Tides of Time (Virtual Console / Sega Mega Drive)

Flipper the video game

Good old Ecco the Dolphin, after saving his dolphin chums from an invading alien race you would have thought he could have just spent the rest of his life in peace spinning a ball on his nose! These plans were shattered when the queen of the Vortex took it upon herself to travel back in time to start her trouble again. An...

• Tue 3rd Jul 2007
• Virtual Console
• Reviews
• Retro

Review Ecco The Dolphin (MD)

Travel through the time along with Ecco the dolphin, in the only game that could call itself a 'dolphin simulator'.

When Ecco was first released, there really wasn't anything like it. A game that featured a peace-loving dolphin as the lead character might sound like the most ill-advised release of all time, but Ecco had an undeniable beauty to it...

• Wed 29th Nov 2006
• Virtual Console
• Reviews
• Retro