Aero The Acrobat Series

Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Aero the Acrobat series (3 titles)
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)

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