{"id":673,"date":"2016-04-12T22:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/?page_id=673"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:16:39","slug":"dick-tracy-sega-genesis-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/dick-tracy-sega-genesis-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Tracy (Sega Genesis) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dick Tracy (Sega Genesis) Review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Go suck an egg!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

~by The Every Gamer (April 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Score: 76\/100 (Decent)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh Dick Tracy, a classic comic strip that\u2019s dated by today\u2019s standards, with a 1990 over-hyped movie that bombed faster than Dick Tracy\u2019s credibility. And we don\u2019t even know if we will ever see him again because, Warren Beatty, the guy who played Dick Tracy in the 1990 movie, somehow owns the rights to the IP. Though on the bright side, it\u2019s one less remake anyway. But, with a not so good movie comes a good game, Eh? Dick Tracy, developed and published by Sega, was released in 1990 in the US and in 1991 in Europe and Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Big Boy is up to no good, \u2018see\u2019, and it\u2019s up to Dick Tracy to defeat his top men along with Big Boy. I\u2019ve never seen the movie but, if this is the plot, I\u2019m not missing anything. It\u2019s simple, it\u2019s 16-bit, and it\u2019s Sega, if anything it\u2019s better than the other ports. <\/span>You play as Dick Tracy in a platformer where you just go around shooting people. You have a pistol and you simply shoot bad guys in your way. However, there are also enemies in the background, so what do you do? Get your machine gun to shoot them down, this is one of the more unique ways of defeating enemies, though you need to stop and shoot them and if you have those fast reflexes then you can take everyone down without getting hit. You WILL need fast reflexes since the game gets hard later on.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some levels where you somehow run out of bullets despite having an unlimited amount of ammo in the previous level. These levels consist of punching enemies, dodging bullets and avoiding explosions. There are also levels where you ride on a car and shoot down enemies who are also in a car, it\u2019s fun but, gets harder in the later levels. You also get bonus levels in the form of target practice where you have to shoot down the enemy boards and avoid hitting the good people; shooting the majority of the enemy boards will get you some lives and continues.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now this game offers a decent challenge but, because it\u2019s a retro game, it gets harder overtime, to the point where you have to dodge everything, including bullets and considering the amount of enemies everywhere, it\u2019s nearly unforgiving. I mean Dick himself slogs his way through many of the levels and this is where the controls come into play. Dick is a slow fellow, meaning it can be quite difficult to dodge, though continue playing it for a while and you\u2019ll get the hang of things. As for the gunplay, it\u2019s pretty good, but you always have to stop on your tracks to hit anyone, wouldn\u2019t it had been great if he was a runner and gunner? Now that\u2019s the true arcade experience Sega continuously shoved down American kids\u2019 throats back in the day; nevertheless what we have is good enough. The bosses are near enough the same as normal enemies, yeah, the bosses don\u2019t really have much variety, but again, they get a bit difficult later.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So yeah, my only issues are that it\u2019s a tough one and there are some levels later in the game in which you have to jump over platforms. Problem is, because Dick Tracy walks very slow and sluggish, it\u2019s a bit tricky to jump over obstacles; the only way to successfully jump over something is to make him walk right to the edge of a platform, jump and hope to high heavens you\u2019ll make it. Now that\u2019s some tight gameplay. Another issue is that after you complete many levels, it ends up going on repeat with more challenge, because apart from the platforming levels, the no-gun levels, bosses, car levels and bonus levels, it can get a little repetitive, though you\u2019ll probably get that kind of feeling near the end rather than in the middle. <\/span>The graphics are pretty good, but the level design is pretty noir and it had grainy colour at least, again, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true to the source material, but I like what we have<\/span>.<\/span> The music is OK, even though some songs sound pretty annoying, but that you don\u2019t hear that twang so common to Mega Drive (Genesis) games a lot so that might be a positive for some. I like some of the tracks but not many, but I found the opening jingle to be cool.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, for a movie licensed game, it\u2019s pretty good, but can get tough. Again, I don\u2019t know if this is faithful to the original movie or even the original comic strip. And this is the problem: talk to any kid and ask them if they\u2019ve heard of Dick Tracy, they\u2019ll probably say “no”. The game is still good fun nonetheless and I\u2019d recommend having a go.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can get it on the Sega Mega Drive\/Genesis.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more great reviews by The Every Gamer, visit his blog at: https:\/\/everygamerreview.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dick Tracy (Sega Genesis) Review Dick Tracy Home Page Sega Genesis Game Catalog Go suck an egg! ~by The Every Gamer (April 2016) Score: 76\/100 (Decent) Oh Dick Tracy, a classic comic strip that\u2019s dated by today\u2019s standards, with a 1990 over-hyped movie that bombed faster than Dick Tracy\u2019s credibility. And we don\u2019t even know … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-673","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}