American Gladiators (SNES)

We've got a slightly different version of Hit it or Quit it today.  This will be at little something I call Sloppy Seconds.  Generally, there are so many games out there that I've never seen, that I can run a Hit it or Quit it on a completely blind run.  A Sloppy Seconds review will be something that I have seen reviewed or played elsewhere.  In this case, I have already seen Continue play this game, so I kind of know what to expect.

Sloppy Seconds

Year: 1991 -- Developer: Incredible Technologies -- Publisher: Gametek

Through the grapevine:
Continue seemed to have a little fun with this game, but overall, it seemed confusing and hard to play.  I remember watching the show quite a bit, but not enough to know the Gladiators names or anything.  During the intro, there is a picture with them all that has some pretty good detail.  They look familiar, but I have no idea who is who.. or even who is a man or woman in some cases.

I'm expecting clunky controls and a cheating CPU, which might be for fun with other people like Continue had.  By myself, I'm not expecting this to last long.

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Fooled around for:  20 minutes
It was indeed about what I expected.  It's so hard to play, it just isn't fun.  It was almost fun, and I really tried to like it.  The games on the show always seemed super cool, so it sounds like a great idea to be able to play them in a game, but it just doesn't work that way.  My thumbs hurt from trying to hold the buttons and press them as the game expects them to be pressed.  Part of the problem is that it doesn't tell you what it wants from you, so the first couple times you happen to play any particular game, you just suck because you are trying to figure out what the hell to do.  Some games use certain buttons that would make sense in another game as well, but they seem to have decided to mix it up every game.  By the time you do figure it out, you're just tired of playing it.

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Hit it or Quit it?
This idea is really cool, and if the show was still on and they tried again on newer systems, it might be cool.  This version, not so much.  Quit it like these female Gladiators quit being women.