Genesis

Decapattack

If you're looking for some fun action on your Genesis and have the time to play it through, Decap Attack is a definite purchase.

In this offbeat platform game, you control a mummy with a head in his chest and a skull on his shoulders. Now there's something you don't see everyday! The game has a distinctive cartoonish horror theme, but some of the characters and bosses simply defy description. The gameplay is more typical. You jump from platform to platform while punching and jumping on enemies. The goal is to reach the end of the stage, although it's not always obvious where that is. You can pick up powerups, which become accessible on a separate screen thanks to the painfully awkward user interface. You also have the power to throw your head, which is a lot of fun since you can take out several enemies at once. Wierd music fits the game well. On the negative side, the stages are pretty generic and unexciting. There is an interesting bonus stage, but you really don't have much control in it. Decap Attack tries to be different, but it's just another mediocre platform game.

Outside of having a clever naming system, DeCap Attack pretty much took the worst elements of every platform game you could think of at the time, put them in a blender, urinated in it and gave it to unsuspecting parents to give to their children for Christmas back in 1991. Thanks, Mom.