Episode #452 - Tearaway Thomas - Amiga Review
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If there’s one game certain to obliterate your blitter and crush your copper, it’s Tearaway Thomas. This Amiga exclusive was often touted as an answer to Sonic by gaming magazines at the time of its release (1992), although it’s more accurate to describe the game as a hypersonic parkour-style collect ’em than a Sonic clone. The game came pretty much out of left field as I recall, and remains the only game Nick Frampton and David Hanney ever produced, and even this was written in their spare time.
And it’s not simply the journalistic press that espoused Tearaway as an hommage to Sonic; the game manual itself takes aim at Sega’s mascot by having the race Tearaways – the race of creatures of which Thomas happens to be part of – originate from the planet “CINOS HET GOHEGDEH” - Subtle right....
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