If you can imagine a group of hard working students, sitting around at the end of the day, after some liquid refreshment had been consumed at the Student’s Union, what better way to round off the day than by playing a racing combat game featuring some of the finest licensed music? Yes, shooting your friends to the strains of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid and winning a race while Steppenwolf’s Born to be Wild plays are truly the things memories are made of. Rock N Roll Racing is another game that I played in my youth, this time back in 1993. Long story short, this is as perfect a port of a game from my memory as we are likely to get, with it working really well. Yes, there was co-op in the older versions, but it was limited to just two players. Also included though are three versions of The Lost Vikings: the original SNES version, the version that was released on the Sega Mega Drive, which is slightly different, and the so-called definitive version something which is a bit of a mash-up of the other two, with added features like three player co-op. The visuals look exactly as I remember them and in fact The Lost Vikings plays exactly as I remember – this has been like a nice warm bubble bath of nostalgia. Doubly so given the limited power of those early machines. And this is barely scratching the surface, as the depth on display is impressive, especially when you consider that this was Silicon and Synapse’s (as Blizzard was called back in the day) first console game. So, in this way, the three Vikings must link up and use their powers to help each other. Erik also has a nifty line in charging headbutts, and can take down walls, Baelog’s bow can be used to hit switches that are out of reach, and Olaf is strong enough to work as a platform for the other Vikings to stand on. The Vikings are, in no particular order, Erik the Swift, who can run and jump Baelog the Fierce, who is the only armed Viking tooled up with a sword and bow, and finally Olaf the Stout whose Shield can not only block any hits, but can also be used to glide around the levels if it’s held above his head.
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