Forgotten Worlds

Originally released in 1988 as an arcade machine by Capcom before being ported over too the Amiga, Sega Megadrive, Supernintendo and a number of other formats, 'Forgotten Worlds' is a fairly formulaic side-scrolling shoot-em-up in which you play as a heavily-armed, jetpack-equipped soldier who hovers in mid-air blasting away at foes both in the air and on the ground as the screen scrolls steadily from left to right. One innovation the game does has going for it is that your character is able to fire in 360 degrees, rather than just straight forward, but other than this its shoot-ep-up business as usual as you blast your way through the various baddies whilst ...  Read the complete review

Forgotten Worlds is Capcom's CPS1 masterpiece, which was ported to a variety of other systems. Many moons ago, my brother and I were given a Megadrive for Christmas along with Altered Beast (Wise fwom your gwave!) and Ghostbusters. Every birthday or xmas after that, we would be allowed a game, as in those days, £35 was a fair bit of cash! For my birthday I went to the game shop and chose Forgotten Worlds. I have NEVER regretted that decision. You are humanity's last hope against the alien scum who have invaded Earth. Playing on your own, or with a friend, you fly through the skies dealing out futuristic damage with your arsenal of ...  Read the complete review

My seemingly endless trawl through the obsolete Sega MegaDrive archive this week highlights ‘Forgotten Worlds,’ a game that may, indeed, have become forgotten in the nineteen years since it first hit arcades partly due to its uselessly misleading title. Rather than being one of those early role-playing ‘Lord of the Rings’ style games that were quite good, if a little unoriginal, it is instead a scrolling shoot-em-up set in a post-nuclear ‘The Terminator’ style world in which the player’s goal is to blast the hell out of everything. Again, not the most original concept, but still something of an arcade niche in 1988. Published by Capcom, ‘Forgotten Worlds’ has ...  Read the complete review