That's not to say it's a bad game, however. Even more than the similar Earthworm Jim, it's a title where puerile gross-out gags dominate gameplay at every turn. Leave Boogerman alone and he starts pulling bright green gobbets of mucus from his nose, and either eating them or desperately trying to detach the sticky slime from his fingers. You flush yourself down a toilet to access new areas. You can also unleash devastating belches. You defeat enemies by flicking bogies at them. Shamelessly, purposefully gross, Boogerman imagines a superhero whose powers are all drawn from snot, bums, farts and burps. Upgrading your orbiting satellite by cashing in collected 'zenny' currency is about as interesting as it gets, and even that's hardly an idea unique to this game.Īny Wii owners with young sons can rest assured that while Boogerman is far from one of the best platform games of its era, it is categorically the one guaranteed to make under-10s laugh themselves silly. You hover stiffly from left to right, with the rigid Megadrive controls offering little fluidity or grace, while uninspired waves of enemies drift in from the other side. There's a flair and artistry to the classics that is sorely lacking here. It's a fairly drab port of a forgettable shooter that is effortlessly eclipsed by dozens of other genre entries - most of which are available on the VC for the same price or less.Ī great shoot-'em-up is conducted like a concerto, full of dramatic pauses and impossible crescendos. What ultimately holds Forgotten Worlds back is that its title proves spookily prescient. The two-player mode remains, as well, an inclusion which may seem par for the course today but back in the late 80s it was the height of social gaming. Since this is an emulation of the Megadrive version, rather than an update, we're still stuck with clunky button aiming even though the nunchuk stick would be perfect for the task.

The biggest problem with a home conversion of Capcom's 1988 side-scrolling arcade shooter is that one of the game's biggest selling points - the rotational firing system - simply doesn't work on a joypad. In Real Money: GBP 6 / EUR 7.70 (approx).

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