Vinyl Goddess from Mars

Vinyl Goddess From Mars
Developer(s)Six Pound Sledge Studios
Publisher(s)Union Logic Software Publishing Inc.
Platform(s)DOS
Release1995
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Vinyl Goddess from Mars is a 2D platform game published by Union Logic Software Publishing, Inc and developed by Six Pound Sledge Studios. It was released for DOS in 1995.

The game has three episodes (with only the first episode playable in the shareware version):

  • Episode I: Forests of Old
  • Episode II: Caverns of Chaos
  • Episode III: The Return

Debra Dare was the model for the box cover art, introduction screen, and pin-up poster.[1]

Plot

It is the year 200 billion. Vinyl is on her way to an intergalactic B-movie convention, when her spaceship is struck by a meteor shower. She crash lands on an unknown planet full of dangers.

Development

The game was created by Jason Struck and Mark Lewis, and was intended to be a sequel to Epic MegaGames's Jill of the Jungle, but Epic was not satisfied with the quality of the game, and decided to release Jazz Jackrabbit instead. The story was then changed, and the game was published by Union Logic as an original title.[2]

Reception

In a 2009 review, Clint Basinger of Lazy Game Reviews called the title as "one of the most solid side-scrolling platform games" that he played on PC. He praised the game's graphics, controls, music, and tongue-in-cheek writing, but objected to the game's lackluster text-only ending.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Vinyl Goddess from Mars at welovedosgames.net". Archived from the original on 2018-03-07.
  2. ^ Monitor Volume 2 issue 11 interview, mentions Jill of the Jungle II being released as Vinyl Goddess From Mars Archived November 3, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Basinger, Clint (August 2009). "LGR - Vinyl Goddess From Mars - DOS PC Game Review". Youtube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-14. Retrieved 13 March 2019.