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Name: Aero the Acrobat series (3 titles)
Aero the Acrobat
Aero the Acrobat 2
Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
Author/Vendor: Iguana/Sunsoft
Released: various
Type: Platform
Language: English
Premise: Introducing our three chief protagonists: Aero the Acrobat, a daredevil bat who is the star of the circus; Edgar Ektor, clown prince and mean guy extraordinare; and Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel, Ektor's chief henchman whose sense of duty and loyalty seem strangly misplaced.
Impressions: Probably the most concerted effort by a software house in cloning the success of the Sonic series. Gets old fast, ridiculous in places, but you never lack for action. I'm told that these games sold by the bucketful when they were first released, so Sunsoft's strategem musta worked.
Variations: Aero the Acrobat (1993, first in the series, has a really annoying circus music soundtrack)
Aero the Acrobat 2 (1994, sequel to the original, with a new plot and less offensive music)
Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel (1994, spinoff that gives Zero the chance to play hero for a change - the best of the series, it compares well with the original Sonic in its own way)
Recommended Emu: Genecyst X