Video
Kid
This was the last of the Kemco games advertised in late
1992 that never got a release. Video Kid was going to be a SFC conversion
of the 1991 Atari ST game by the same name, developed by middling
platform game developer Twilight. Surprisingly, this is actually a
themed shoot-em-up, not a platformer, in which our hero enters different
worlds (magic, wild west...) through a VCR and different videotapes.
Kemco obviously felt the green-haired lemming clone
of a hero in the original had no personality, so they swapped in their
own placeholder character, Kid Klown. Not that there's much improvement,
is there?
Some screenshots from the Amiga
conversion can be seen below for comparison. I don't know if the SFC
version was going to have its colours enhanced, but as with most Atari
ST-to-Amiga conversions, the number of on-screen colours is not up
to Amiga spec. Not only that, there is some awful sprite flicker at
the bottom of the screen, and the game lacks music. While the graphics
are bright and appealing, the gameplay is extremely drab and the bosses
unoriginal. SFC owners didn't miss out on much.