Publisher: Atari Corporation
Released: 1993
Gordo 106: The Mutated Lab Monkey is a platformer that's exclusive to the Atari Lynx handheld.
+ Falling down a hole sees you challenged to a dungeon escape rather than losing a life, which is a neat second chance idea.
+ Dazzling visuals with amazing parallax scrolling and background animation, as well as enormous enemy sprites.
- However, the flashy graphics come at the expense of a stuttering frame-rate that makes precise platforming a nightmare.
- Proceeding through the game relies almost entirely on memorisation which can be tediously off-putting.
- Mastering the sprinting jump is key, yet executing it via a d-pad double tap is often extremely finicky and unreliable.
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