Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad

aka: Timet: the Flying Squirrel

Moby ID: 14997

Released

1994 on Amiga

Credits

15 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

1994 (Amiga)
2023 (Antstream)

Publishers

Ocean Software Ltd.

Developers

NEON Software GmbH

Moby Score

7.9

#2,641 of 23.6K

Critics

82% (11)

Players

(4)

Ranking

#153 on Amiga

Collected By

5 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Side view
Visual: 2D scrolling
Gameplay: Platform
Interface: Direct control
Setting: Fantasy

Amiga Specs

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: 3.5" Floppy Disk
Number of Players Supported: 1 Player

Description official description

Similarities with the other Mr. Nutz game only go as far as the title and main character, although both are side-scrolling platform games. Mr. Nutz the squirrel is holidaying on Peanut Planet when he's called into action to save the local people from a race of chickens. Nutz can fly, swim and dive through the planet on his quest. The level layouts include tunnels and warp zones. Bonus items and additional weapons including bombs are available along the way.

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Credits (Amiga version)

15 People · View all

Producers	Michael Büttner Antony Christoulakis Jan Jöckel Boris Triebel
Programming	Jan Jöckel Michael Büttner Peter Thierolf
Scaling and Tunnel	Dierk Ohlerich
Artwork	Antony Christoulakis
Outro-planet	Klaus Erhardt
Music	Rudolf Stember
Fx	Rudolf Stember
Level Design	Boris Triebel Thomas Pottkämper Sander Karl Jan Jöckel Antony Christoulakis Jens Hansen
UK Version	Michael Schubart
Game Testing	Sander Karl Julian Joeckel Simon Triebel Tanja Ihring
Manual	Boris Triebel Antony Christoulakis
[ full credits ]

Reviews

Critics

Average score: 82% (based on 11 ratings)

Players

Average score: 4.3 out of 5 (based on 4 ratings with 1 reviews)

Not as good as the Sega Genesis version

The Good
The introduction to this game looks great, and the in-game graphics are beautiful. The music is first-rate, and there is a gorgeous-looking bonus sequence. The game is quite addictive for a while, and Mr. Nutz himself looks suitably humorous.

The Bad
Where the game falls down is in its gameplay. For a start, you spend far too much time moving a tiny squirrel around a maze looking for the entrances to the varied parts of each level. When you start playing the levels, it isn't long before they become tedious and repetitive. The chickens are just irritating, and the later bosses are frustrating and uninteresting.

The Bottom Line
A platform game in which you must guide Mr. Nutz, a squirrel, through the levels in order to rid the land of killer chickens (!) If you are hit by a baddie, you can replenish your lost energy by catching the little jumping rectangle which flies out of your health meter, and there are also shields dotted about the levels.

Amiga · by Gary Smith (57) · 2004

Trivia

Cancelled Genesis version

A port of Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad was being developed for Genesis (under the name Mr. Nutz 2). Several European magazines even reviewed the game, but it was never released.

Development

This game started as Timet: The Flying Squirrel and featured a different character (Timet). However the game's publisher Ocean didn't want to have two different squirrel characters in its game catalogue and decided to replace Timet with Mr. Nutz, despite the game featuring a different universe and objections from the creators of Mr. Nutz.