Kid Chameleon

Kid Chamelon is an inventive and colourful side-scrolling platformer from 1992, in which you play as the eponymous Kid, a video-game player who finds himself sucked into a virtual world and who is able to change into various other characters, each with their own special skills, by collecting power-ups distributed throughout the game's many levels. The game employs numerous standard platformer elements, requiring you to bounce on enemies heads to kill them and to hit overhead blocks with your head to collect power-ups and points, but the game still possesses a lot of originality and retains its own uniqe style, both visually and gameplay-wise. There are loads ...  Read the complete review

With blisters on my thumbs, 2 controls on the other side of the room and a higher than usual blood pressure I think I can safely sum Kid Chameleon up as being a delightfully addictive yet thoroughly frustrating game. Having spent the last 6 hours playing the version on xbox 360's Sega Mega Drive collection (mainly because I loved it as a child but wasn't ever able to get very far) I can safely say this game is as near impossible as a genuinely fun game can be. Released originally on the Mega Drive/Genesis way back in the early 1990's (1992) it had become one of those games I'd stumbled along not being sure what it was about but the cover looked rather cool and ...  Read the complete review

Kid Chameleon is a 1992 Sega platform game. The player assumes the role of a shapeshifting teenager who must rely on powerups and his own adaptability to progress the levels. The player is given a number of lives, which can be increased by collecting points and powerups. The levels are also timed. There are a number of different types of enemy which can be dispatched in many different ways, depending on the character you are playing. Such characters include a knight, a samurai, a hoverborder, a fly, and tank. These characters, ten in total, have an enormous range of abilities, some can climb walls, others can smash through walls, some can hack ...  Read the complete review