🕹️ New release: Lunar Lander Beyond

Kid Chaos

aka: Kid Vicious
Moby ID: 8099
Amiga Specs

Description

Kid Chaos is transported from the stone age into an unknown world by evil scientists from the future. Now he must fight his way through artificial environments such as the Secret Garden, Toxic Wasteland, Toy Factory, Techno Fortress, and the Ruined City to reach the time machine that can transport him back home.

Kid does this by running through the level, destroying all wildlife and several destruction targets, then leave the level by the exit door, which remain closed until Kid has destroyed all destruction targets. He destroys by swinging his club in the air and hitting them. He can also whiz if he's running fast, which enable him to discover hidden passages through walls that usually contain apples and power-ups. These are also found if Kid manages to jump really high in the air and lands on a platform that usually lead to secret passages.

There are five levels and four sections to complete in all of them (a total of twenty levels) and Kid start each level with three lives. During the level, if he loses health just by touching wildlife, or if the time expires, he is warped out of the level, loses a life, and has to restart the level at the checkpoints he passes through. His health can be restored either by waiting for the health meter to reach 99 (the boring way) or collecting apples (the smart way), but as Kid progresses further throughout the game, these apples become rare as well as his destruction targets.

Once he leaves a level, Kid is given a statistics screen, telling him the percentage of destruction he has caused, how much wildlife he has killed, how many apples he collected, and other extras. These "extras" probably include how much more of his destruction targets he broke beyond the requirement.

As mentioned earlier, if Kid jumps really high to reach a platform, he can get power-ups, giving him such wonderful things like extra lives, extra time, or extra health. He can also collect a life token. If he manages to find three life tokens within the same section, then he is awarded an extra life as well.

Every fourth level, Kid will be faced with a challenge, and the object of these is usually to kill something, but there's always a catch for these challenges. For example, in Toy Factory, he has to shoot teddy bears at least ten times to blow them up, while avoiding shooting at ducks; and in Techno Fortress, he's presented with a game similar to Space Invaders, but only this time, there are no barriers.

Kid Chaos starts off easily, but the further he progresses in the game, the higher the damage factor. Early in the game, he is allowed to hit so much wildlife before he loses a life, but as he progresses through each level, he can't afford to be hit not even once. Some levels in the game are quite tricky. Some levels require him to race through the level under a very strict time limit, while others contain a huge destruction target and he can't afford to miss any of these targets.

The game uses a password system, that allows you to resume at the start of each level. In terms of the gameplay, one of the cheats say it all.

Screenshots

Promos

Credits (Amiga version)

13 People (5 developers, 8 thanks)

Game Design
Program
Graphics
Music
  • Pipe Smoker's Cough
Sound FX
Level Design
Main Testing
Business Director
Special Thanks To
  • Dave
  • Luga
  • Adam
  • Janet & Carly
  • Michelangelo
  • Brian
  • Danny
  • Chris & Ross at Micro-Plus

Reviews

Critics

Average score: 81% (based on 9 ratings)

Players

Average score: 4.3 out of 5 (based on 7 ratings with 1 reviews)

Nice graphics and music, but let down by flawed gameplay

The Good
The gorgeous graphics and terrific, stylish presentation. The first set of levels, in the Secret Garden area, really are addictive and fun-packed. Also, the music throughout the game is great. My favourite tunes are in the Secret Garden, Toxic Wasteland and Techno Fortress levels. Nice ending, as well.

The Bad
It all becomes preposterously difficult. You have to fight against tight time limits and avoid enemies, but there are objects everywhere which prevent you from running at speed. Therefore, the fast scrolling seems rather redundant. Kid Chaos himself is a pretty sad character, just another attempt to sell the game by having a character who is 'cool' or 'hard' or whatever.

The Bottom Line
A platform game in which you, as a caveman brought into the future by evil scientists, must make your way through various levels such as toxic wastelands, car factories and so on. Each level consists of several areas, and at the end of which is a sub-game (for example, at the end of Secret Garden you must use balls to demolish a wall bit-by-bit, and in Toxic Wasteland you must shoot barrels of toxic waste which fall from above.

Amiga · by Gary Smith (57) · 2004

Trivia

Title

The game’s working title was dropped at the last minute when lawyers for the notorious punk rock group The Sex Pistols threatened to sue for libel, due to the name being a pun on the name of original member Sid Vicious.

Analytics

MobyPro Early Access

Upgrade to MobyPro to view research rankings!

Related Games

Kid Chameleon
Released 1992 on Genesis, 2010 on Windows, 2018 on Linux...
Soccer Kid
Released 1993 on SNES, DOS, PlayStation...
Sky Kid
Released 1986 on NES, 2008 on Wii, 2013 on Nintendo 3DS...
Casino Kid 2
Released 1993 on NES
Kid Phonics 1
Released 1994 on Windows 3.x, Macintosh
Kid Tripp
Released 2017 on Nintendo 3DS, 2019 on PlayStation 4, PS Vita...
Casino Kid
Released 1989 on NES
Wall Street Kid
Released 1990 on NES
VooDoo Kid
Released 1997 on Windows, Windows 3.x, 2021 on Linux

Identifiers +

  • MobyGames ID: 8099
  • [ Please login / register to view all identifiers ]

Contribute

Are you familiar with this game? Help document and preserve this entry in video game history! If your contribution is approved, you will earn points and be credited as a contributor.

Contributors to this Entry

Game added by Katakis | カタキス.

Amiga CD32 added by Kabushi.

Additional contributors: Martin Smith, Patrick Bregger.

Game added January 7, 2003. Last modified November 9, 2023.