Forgotten Worlds

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 ...