Dennis
Dennis, developed and published by Ocean Software in 1993.
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Player's Review
"Yipes! Grab your slingshot, water pistol and pea-shooter. Margaret, the fist-fighting doll-toting little miss dynamite, and Joey, Dennis' wimpy but loyal friend, are missing and so is Mr. Wilson's valuable coin collection. Can you sneak into Mr. Wilson's house and fine your slingshot and pea- shooter without being spotted? You've got rope ladders to climb and hidden switches to find... it's going to be tough You're gonna need those weapons bad as you face off with the beastly Betty Sue Dubrovski, the crazed Coach, the foul Fish and Sam the scariest of them all. On this late-night escapade, bees, bulldogs, birds, frogs and even bunnies will be a menace to Dennis. Finding Joey, Margaret and Mr. Wilson's coin collection will be an adventure more harrowing than a garden full of cheek pinchers, and you know what Mr. Wilson says, "that's no g. d. (gosh darn) joke".
Dennis, the Amiga game was released in multiple versions for Amiga 500 class machines, A1200 AGA and CD32 and also released on the Super Nintendo as Dennis the Menace. An incomplete build of the game was also distributed as part of the Commodore Amiga 1200 Desktop Dynamite Pack.
The opening level is quite promising as it has you jumping around, platforming collecting coins whilst destroying any enemies in the way if you choose. It looks alright for a 1993 Amiga platform game but what's the the gloomy music that plays throughout the game. You only get sfx or music, solved in the snes or cd32 game. So on the first level, you are required to find all four large coins as well as the two additional weapons before you can leave the stage. After leaving the house it's onto some quite bland by comparison platforming levels go up, down, left, right all over to find those coins. Later in the sewers it is mostly just left to right with a very annoying jumping section. The boiler levels go back to going all over the place to find the coins. Before leaving each themed area, there is a boss battle and you are limited to the water pistol requiring to land a certain amount of hits before they hit you. These stages can be annoying as you have to wait some seconds between shots for them to land.
There is no difficulty option apart from starting amount of lives so the game is what it is. The game provides plenty of energy and loads of extra lives to find but if you lose a life its back to the beginning of the stage, although you get to keep the coins. The difficulty comes from the floaty controls and extremely bad collision detection. You have to land before you can execute another jump. Just holding jump wont work and stringing multiple jumps together as you cross a death chasm can be frustrating. Whilst enemies are not always packed together its all to easy to run right into them as you cross the screen but there are lots of them throughout the levels which are again frustrating, more so as they all respawn. You get three weapons but you have to cycle through them as needed to defeat particular enemies.
Overall, it's quite a basic platforming game thrown together to promote the movie. Maybe another Highlander situation. The first level is interesting, but after that it just seems like a minimal effort. The woods levels in particular look phoned in as they are missing backgrounds. In contrast to the snes game, the Amiga version is lacking in a lot of areas and its worth noting that the sewer and boiler levels have been swapped around.
00:00:00 Title Music
00:01:16 Mr Wilsons
00:08:23 The Park 1
00:11:00 The Park 2
00:13:18 The Park 3
00:15:52 The Park 4
00:19:32 The Park 5
00:21:40 The Park (Boss)
00:22:50 Sewers 1
00:24:21 Sewers 2
00:25:50 Sewers 3
00:27:49 Sewers 4
00:31:18 Sewers (Boss)
00:33:00 Boiler 1
00:37:17 Boiler 2
00:41:12 Boiler 3
00:44:28 Boiler 4
00:47:34 Boiler (Boss)
00:49:40 The Woods 1
00:53:00 The Woods 2
00:56:24 The Woods 3
00:59:52 The Woods 4
01:04:10 The Woods (Boss)
01:05:21 End / Credits
Dennis, the Amiga game was released in multiple versions for Amiga 500 class machines, A1200 AGA and CD32 and also released on the Super Nintendo as Dennis the Menace. An incomplete build of the game was also distributed as part of the Commodore Amiga 1200 Desktop Dynamite Pack.
The opening level is quite promising as it has you jumping around, platforming collecting coins whilst destroying any enemies in the way if you choose. It looks alright for a 1993 Amiga platform game but what's the the gloomy music that plays throughout the game. You only get sfx or music, solved in the snes or cd32 game. So on the first level, you are required to find all four large coins as well as the two additional weapons before you can leave the stage. After leaving the house it's onto some quite bland by comparison platforming levels go up, down, left, right all over to find those coins. Later in the sewers it is mostly just left to right with a very annoying jumping section. The boiler levels go back to going all over the place to find the coins. Before leaving each themed area, there is a boss battle and you are limited to the water pistol requiring to land a certain amount of hits before they hit you. These stages can be annoying as you have to wait some seconds between shots for them to land.
There is no difficulty option apart from starting amount of lives so the game is what it is. The game provides plenty of energy and loads of extra lives to find but if you lose a life its back to the beginning of the stage, although you get to keep the coins. The difficulty comes from the floaty controls and extremely bad collision detection. You have to land before you can execute another jump. Just holding jump wont work and stringing multiple jumps together as you cross a death chasm can be frustrating. Whilst enemies are not always packed together its all to easy to run right into them as you cross the screen but there are lots of them throughout the levels which are again frustrating, more so as they all respawn. You get three weapons but you have to cycle through them as needed to defeat particular enemies.
Overall, it's quite a basic platforming game thrown together to promote the movie. Maybe another Highlander situation. The first level is interesting, but after that it just seems like a minimal effort. The woods levels in particular look phoned in as they are missing backgrounds. In contrast to the snes game, the Amiga version is lacking in a lot of areas and its worth noting that the sewer and boiler levels have been swapped around.
00:00:00 Title Music
00:01:16 Mr Wilsons
00:08:23 The Park 1
00:11:00 The Park 2
00:13:18 The Park 3
00:15:52 The Park 4
00:19:32 The Park 5
00:21:40 The Park (Boss)
00:22:50 Sewers 1
00:24:21 Sewers 2
00:25:50 Sewers 3
00:27:49 Sewers 4
00:31:18 Sewers (Boss)
00:33:00 Boiler 1
00:37:17 Boiler 2
00:41:12 Boiler 3
00:44:28 Boiler 4
00:47:34 Boiler (Boss)
00:49:40 The Woods 1
00:53:00 The Woods 2
00:56:24 The Woods 3
00:59:52 The Woods 4
01:04:10 The Woods (Boss)
01:05:21 End / Credits
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