Vinyl Goddess from Mars
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In the year 200 billion a small ship races across the galaxy taking The Vinyl Goddess From Mars to the esteemed intergalactic B Movie convention. In mid transit, a meteor shower strikes without warning and the ship is engulfed in a sea of rocks and debris. Badly damaged by the cosmic storm, the ship careens off course. Desperately, The Vinyl Goddess twists knobs and pulls levers to regain control. The best that she can hope for is to eject and let the ship crash land on the strange planet below. It's up to you to help the lovely goddess find and repair her ship and collect all of her belongings before it's to late to reach the convention.
Vinyl Goddess From Mars is a platform game similar in design and gameplay to the older Jill of the Jungle, or alternatively Gods. As Vinyl, you must progress through levels and episodes and eventually repair your broken vessel.
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Average score: 3.0 out of 5 (based on 18 ratings with 4 reviews)
Just another average platform game.
The Good
This game has improved graphics and sound when compared to Jill of the Jungle. It's also much longer than whole trilogy of Jill. Design of monsters is original. Levels are in the similar style as those in Xargon. Vinyl also has a much bigger weaponry than Jill.
The Bad
Unfortunately, Vinyl isn't as fun to play as Jill. It lacks of any puzzles, you can't transform into anything, and it lacks of any originality. Forget about buying power-ups or anything. Also, there isn't any level editor for Vinyl, so it has nothing more to offer after finishing it.
The Bottom Line
However, if you were fan of Jill of the Jungle and Xargon, or you just love old-school 2D platform games, you should try. It's a good game, but not excellent. You will forget about the game a week after finishing Vinyl.
DOS · by Sir Gofermajster (485) · 2009
Sexy Screen Goddess in the Steamy Jungle
The Good
The action, which is fierce, and the calm and resourceful way Vinyl handles all attackers.
I also like the sounds, which are better than those generated by the game of her predecessor, Jill of the Jungle.
The Bad
The storyline is a little bit thin, but perhaps that was to be expected, and the ending is rather sudden
Should there not be a new "Jill" in the make by now, under whatever name?
The Bottom Line
a very enjoyable platform game with good music and sounds.
By the way - just out of curiosity - who stood (of should I say 'lay' ) model for the front page? I mean the lush brown curled beauty in high red boots......
DOS · by M. van Hilten (4) · 2004
Thoroughly inferiour to good ole' Jill.
The Good
Vinyl Goddess From Mars is a fairly solid platform game. Featuring reasonably good graphics, fairly decent music, good controls and reasonably good degree of gameplay, Vinyl is a pretty fun game to play.
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The Bad
Vinyl Goddess From Mars isn't even remotely as fun to play as good old Jill of the Jungle. Despite its better graphics, it doesn't have nearly as good music as Jill, and is simply not as fun. The weapons are very hard to properly aim, and there are many types of enemies that will hit you no matter what you do to avoid it.
Also: the plot is thoroughly ridiculous (and I don't mean ridiculous in a humourous, B-Movie sense, but plain STUPID), and the concept of a feminine warrior who has to fight all sorts of enemies is clearly stolen from Jill, which I do not appreciate.
The Bottom Line
A fairly decent platform game, rendered funless by braindead plot and lack of originality.
DOS · by Tomer Gabel (4538) · 2000
Trivia
The reason why this game looks so much like Jill of the Jungle, is because this game was going to be Jill of the Jungle II!
The game was finished, but Epic waited on publishing it because they had just released Jazz Jackrabbit and they judged the game to be below their standards of quality. So Six Pound Sledge Studios renamed the game, changed some graphics (like a different colored suit), rewrote the plot a little and released it with a different publisher.
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Game added by Tomer Gabel.
Additional contributors: Frenkel, Karsa Orlong.
Game added April 28, 2000. Last modified September 16, 2023.