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It's Morphin' Time?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All told, the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers game for the SNES is not as good as some, better than others. Bandai released four Power Rangers titles for the system, and of those four, the best has to be Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie, followed by Power Rangers Zeo: Battle Racers (known on Amazon.com as merely Power Ranger Racers). The original MMPR title, the one you're reading about here, falls below the level of those two, but still manages to stand above the fourth game, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition.

This is basically your standard side-scrolling beat-em-up, only without the ability to move "up and down" on the screen as you could in games like Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time or Batman Returns. Your character, one of the original five rangers (Jason, Kimberly, Zach, Billy and Trini) runs to the right, punching and kicking putties until he/she encounters the boss of the level. At that point, you morph into a Power Ranger and the boss vanishes from sight (without so much as a fight) and you continue to work your way through the next two-thirds of the level, this time armed with your specific power ranger weapon.

Sometimes you'll encounter a unique situation; level three places you in the sewers and storm drains of Angel Grove, forcing you to swim and crawl your way out. The second level drops you in a factory and makes you contend with machines and debris as you climb up a series of girders. But for the most part, you're just going to be running to the right and beating the heck out of putties.

Control is tight, the graphics are nice, and the music is... adequate. At least the sound effects are good. The only problem is that it's just not as fun as it should be - it's kind of repetitive. Okay, it's very repetitive. A greater variety of attacks would be nice, but you can only jump and attack, duck and attack, or stand and attack. Yes, you can throw your enemies, but that's as close as you get to anything different than just hitting the Y button hard and fast. A two-player option would've been a godsend... unfortunately, this is a one-player game, so you're going to have to go it alone. For the sake of some variety, at least you get to choose a new ranger for each level and partake of two Megazord fights towards the end of the game.

Ultimately, it's too repetitive and a little too easy to be great, especially with the password system allowing you continue from the level where you left off at any time. But serious fans of the original team will probably find a lot to like, because it's still an above-average action side-scroller. If you own an SNES and you love the Rangers, though, you could certainly do better; why not pick up Battle Racers or, better yet, The Movie instead?

Good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In the early-mid nineties, the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers television series was taking a huge rise in popularity. And what happens when a television show gets popular? You got it. They make a video game about it. This was the first of four Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers titles for the Super Nintendo gaming console. How does it measure up? Read on and find out.

PROS:
-If you're both a Power Rangers fan and a Final Fight fan, you'll get the best of both worlds here - Power Rangers characters, in a game that uses a Final Fight-style game engine.
-You can choose from the five original Rangers, each of which has his or her own strengths and weaknesses.
-The music is surprisingly good for this kind of game.
-With special passwords, you can do a two-player versus battle!
-You can save the game using passwords.

CONS:
-You can't be the Green Ranger. Sorry.
-Some stages are just too easy. The enemies seem like punching bags. This gives the game a very slow feeling.

-You can't control when you morph - it always happens at the same place, every time you play.
-For some odd reason, the Pink Ranger can fire arrows from her bow, but the Black Ranger can't fire shots from his axe cannon.

OVERALL:
Overall this is a good (but not great) game. Still, if you're a fan of the old-school Power Rangers series, it's well worth checking out.

mighty morphin power rangers by bandai

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: September 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

mighty morphin power rangers by bandai

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Forever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game!Its is one of the best with the original power rangers Jason,Zack,Billy,Trini and Kimberly.I kind of didnt like Rocky,Adam,and Aisha but this game rocks and remember mmpr rules!

Hard Hitting

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well i think this game is fun but it is exsausting. You just go around and beat the same old baddies up. Plus only two characters can actually do good!(trini and jason) But me and my buds love playing it! Only i wish there was a two player mode, that would rock the house!

Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is really cool. I liked it very much. This is my type of game and the graphics are pretty cool too. I just don't understand why they made the Blue Ranger so Dorky. But it is still a cool character. and the special power move is cool to. this is a must have game

If you liked this game check out all of The power rangers games, books, movies & cds

A yawn enducing Power Rangers beat 'em up

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Most games based upon franchises are utter crap, and this is one of them. I had fun with it as a kid but going back to playing it makes me realize how bad it actually was. You pick one of the five original rangers, just one (single player game), -and they all look downright fugly and only have cosmetic differences by the way- and you run through various environments beating on Putty Soldiers until they explode (nice...). You press one button to jump, and one to punch, and your character does a three hit combo. It would be fun if your enemies put up more of a fight or presented a challgenge. In other words it's not quite as fullfilling as Double Dragon or Battle Toads or Streets of Rage or even the modern day Viewtiful Joe.

Midway through the level you get to morph into your characters alter ego and they use their weapons instead of their fists this time. Along with the boss battles this is where the Rangers differences pop up, but it's really only cosmetic in reguards to how they attack and what dinosaur is visible with their special move (save that for the boss). Quite possibly the most redeaming quality about this game, besides the bosses being the monsters from the show is the final two levels where you go toe-to-toe with a giant monster in the ultra cool Megazord. Now this plays like a fighting game, mostly like the Ultraman fighting game, but this is actually fun compared to that, despite the slow movement, and spike in difficulty.

Even for fans of the original (and best) Power Rangers this isn't even worth looking at. There are better beat 'em ups, and slightly better Power Ranger games. Whats terrible about this game (besides that it cashed in on the thousands of fans love of the series) is that you only fight two battles with the Megazord, and there was no Green Ranger, the coolest of them all. Weak... seriously weak.

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