Running Rings Around the Competition Quirky system architecture and internal squabbles doomed this 32-bit system in America. Japan, on the other hand.

SEGA (REALTIME ASSOCIATES) 3D PLATFORMER It's an unwritten law that every post-crash video game system must have an obnoxious mascot to go with it. The Genesis has Sonic, Nintendo's systems has Mario, the 3DO has Dana Gould, er, Gex, and the Saturn has Bug!

He's your typical wisecracking anthropomorph, sort of a computer rendered Bubsy with antennae and a thorax, and he does your typical mascottian things- stomping on enemies, hunting down power-ups, making smart-ass remarks, et al. There's one big difference, though. Mario and Bubsy were stuck on one plane of perspective. Bug!, however, is less restricted and can take off in any one of four cardinal directions (toward the screen and away from it as well as left and right as is typical in games in this genre), provided that there is in fact a pathway in the direction he chooses. Walk from left to right and the game plays like any other in the genre, but take one of the northern or southern paths, and the Saturn responds by scaling the screen inward or outward in an impressive display once thought impossible on the system.

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It's a little disorienting at first, but hey, that's the price you pay for neat 3-D eyecandy.:) That aside, Bug! Is just your standard side-scrolling Sonic and/or Mario clone, without nearly enough new ideas to set it apart from better games in the genre, like Ristar and the clearly superior Jumping Flash! I'd recommend a rental, or better yet, purchasing the $5 Saturn demo disk with three rounds of the game as well as a stage from Sega's overrated 3-D shooter Panzer Dragoon. ACCLAIM (TAITO) ACTION PUZZLER Truly one of the classics in the Neo-Geo's otherwise derivitive software library, Bust-A-Move has arrived on the Saturn with dozens of new puzzles, a Vs. Mode for one player as well as two, and even an edit mode which guarantees to keep the game fresh even after its many modes have been beaten.