If the shoe fits...

With a wealth of comedy source material from which to draw, John Goodman playing Fred Flinstone and Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble, the 1994 Flintstones live-action movie should have been a sure-fire hit. And it was, at the box office at least. Unfortunately, it's also a muddled, misjudged, tedious catastrophe in the homage stakes.

Prudently, Ocean Software eschewed the stodgy minutiae of its plot revolving around corporate espionage and embezzlement, fashioning together a remarkably playable SNES-based platform game worthy of the classic cartoon. I examine them both, trying my best to pretend only one of the two actually happened. Can you guess which?

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A storm in a proton pack

Ghostbusters II's pixely interpretation sequel is a menagerie of three disparate arcade-action mini-games that attempt to capture the exhilaration of a key sequence taken from the celluloid blockbuster. Comprising 2D scrolling and isometric viewpoints, they range in difficulty from hair-pullingly insane to a walk in Central Park, some more tedious than challenging as a result. Whatever the case, they're at least instantly recognisable and artistically reimagined.

Foursfield took on the developmental duties, whilst it was published by Activision in 1989 for all the popular 8 and 16-bit systems of the era. My assessment attempts to cover them all, tracing each element back to its source material, reviewing the game and movie in synchrony.

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