

In this cart, you play the part of the infamous Roadrunner who needs to avoid the overly-hungry Wile E. It's Desert Speedtrap - starring Roadrunner and Wile E. This cute cart's good for a play or two, but if you're looking for a top-notch Game Gear product, you may have to send away to ACME.īeep beep! Here comes everyone's desert - dwelling fowl in an all - new Game Gear adventure. Not a Fun RunĪdjustable challenge makes the cart good for beginners in the early levels, but its toughness at the harder difficulty settings is due to frustrating, imprecise controls, not complicated game play. It's frustratingly difficult to make him hop and jump where you want him to. Button presses make the Road Runner leap with abandon. The game's controls are very difficult to manage. The Road Runner's beep sounds more like a broken car horn. The music's uninspiring, livened up only by the Warner Brothers theme. The cool-looking intermission screens are worth watching. The various enemies aren't particularly imaginative, and they're often difficult to spot, since they blend in with the terrain. The coyote always makes a last-ditch effort to snag the bird, usually while riding atop his latest ACME contraption.ĭesert Speedtrap's graphics look like the original cartoon, although the sprites are too small. When he's not evading the hostile desert flora and fauna, the Road Runner has to look out for Wile E., who's looking mighty hungry.

The premise is simple: get to the exit before time or your health runs out.Įach stage looks like a scene out of a classic Road Runner cartoon. Beep, BeepĪs the Road Runner, you've got to race through multiple stages of hop-n-bop action. In this Game Gear adventure, things are a lot tougher for the speedy fowl. In the cartoons, the fine-feathered bird makes his escape with the greatest of ease. The Road Runnerr's still plagued by the same old nemesis - Wile E.
