Zool

The Good
Zool looks like a cool cat and someone you would like to play as, at least in the title screen.

Watching the Chupa-Chups product placement was a hoot, not to mention an extremely peculiar moment in videogaming history.

The Bad
The DOS version of Zool is the typical case of that oh-so-typical scenario of the early 90's which you might remember as the "Amiga port gone bad" were a blockbuster or even a barely successful title would make the hop to DOS with craptacular results. Zool is one of the later, and if my Amiga history is correct, only rose to fame thanks to it being one of the few super cutey-cutey the platform had at the time. And since Chupa-Chups was behind it, somehow made the jump to every platform conceivable at the time.

The truth is that Zool is a generic platformer made out of the leftovers of the genre that was at the time all the rage in the videogame world. A collection of incoherent, brightly colored platform levels based around certain kid-friendly themes (music, candy, toys, etc.) which you have to beat in order to.... uh... I dunno. If there was a part in the game were they explained why an intergalactic ninja had to fight against a giant banana I missed it... Anyway, there's nothing even remotely creative behind Zool's gameplay and level design, playing out just like the same million games like it that you played elsewhere. There's nothing that even remotely resembles a plot or any interesting characters, so there's really no reason you should waste your time playing it's original version, but what if I told you you could play a technically inferior port of it on your own PC??? Now we are talking!! Nothing makes Zool more interesting than playing it with washed graphics, plain backgrounds and the same looping music over and over again.... Don't you just love the PC's ability to turn mediocre games into utter crap??

The Bottom Line
Crap port of a ho-hum game gives you..... Yes! You guessed it! A shitty game!!!

If you are so desperate go and play Mario again, there's nothing to see here, move along, move along....