In June of 1995, there was a movie that changed the lives of many, it was an epic tale of good versus evil, deceit versus truth, hope combated with loss, power rangers battling with Ivan Ooze. As a mere sapling in the world of popular culture, I chose the power rangers as my leader into the frontier of awesomeness. My want to become one of those mighty and morphin elite rangers was strong from the ages of 6 to 10 and was soon stifled by my eventual quest to "catch them all." However that power ranger need stuck in the back of my sub-conscious only waiting for a catalyst. That catalyst was my discovery of a treasure at my local retro gaming store Games 4 You, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie...The Game, for the Sega Genesis.

So after a late night session of Zack and Wiki, my friends and I plugged the rangers into my Genesis 1 and started a game in the two player co-op mode. The game lets you choose between all six rangers at the start of the game, including the white ranger. The gameplay is much like final fight or streets of rage only its the power rangers... where can you go wrong. The answer is you cant.



The controls are A: Kick B: Punch/Combo C: Uppercut/Jump, and if you double tap to run into an enemy you can grab and throw them. Each ranger has a similar play style, the only difference being their weapon of choice and their charged B attack. The blue ranger is equipped with a staff; the yellow with ninja sai that he could also throw; the pink with a sword, the red with a katana; the black with an axe that turned into a huge gun (my personal favorite); and the white with what I called the sword of epic luls because it shoots fire across the ground when charged, thus destroying everyone in his path. The music in the game is only what I can assume the 16-bit version of the movie soundtrack. However after completing each stage it plays the "go go power rangers" theme, and then I cried.

The total of 5 stages were broken up with amazing giant robot battles, where I got to morph into the giant robot that the five rangers form together, and my friend played as the white rangers giant fucking mech bird. Due to the fact that the white rangers bird is broken and can destroy just about anything by picking it up a boss and dropping it repeatedly, I would only be able to sit back and watch the destruction and helplessly spin kick through the towers of angel grove. The awesomeness of the giant robot battles is only increased as the last level takes place in space.

The pawns in the battle of Ivan Ooze and the Power Rangers were easily dismissed by either a good punch combo, a running B attack, or just simply throwing enemies into other enemies (or sometimes my friend, whoops). Some of the rangers were equipped with projectile attacks (the black rangers huge gun), which came in handy when swarmed by Ivan Ooze's badies. Mini-bosses were also present in the form of three sentinels: sentinel ear (a woman that attacks with her hair, NOT her giant fucking lobes hanging from her skull), sentinel neck (hes got a big neck) , and sentinel ring (wtf).

The game itself only lasted a little over an hour, but that hour that it took to save Zordon made both myself and my friends life a little more complete than it was before. If you have genesis and have the ability to find this on the cheap (I found it for $4), it will be money well spent. If you've already played it, then we can both share a moment of nostalgia and look back on where our path in life led to hardcore nerdiness. I can only sum up this game with a term recently coined by editor Chad Concelmo, RETROMAZING!!!