Admired by old-school arcade gamers. Underappreciated by the spoiled, new masses.

User Rating: 7.5 | Saban's Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue GBC
By GameReviewGuru | Review Date:
It's disappointing to see a new era of gaming where eye-burning graphics, superfluously long stories, and stuffed bonus features have become the norm. People won't buy a game unless it's HD quality, stuffed with years of features, and so long that it could have been split into two or three games. Truthfully, I have also fallen from grace and I expect what most gamers expect nowadays from any new game. However, when I pull out my old, archaic Gameboy color games, I still enjoy them for some profound reason. I think back to the past and wonder why I've morphed with the naïve crowd. I think that, often times, old-school gamers should pull out their clunky consoles, filled with childhood memories, and vow not to forget about the simpler gaming times that were, honestly, just as fun as any of the flashy kiddy pools today.

Let me introduce you to Power Rangers Light Speed Rescue: a great arcade game that has been so mercilessly rejected and underappreciated. The game is a classic "arcade" title, a term that we don't use that often nowadays, meaning that it's fairly clunky, retro, and straightforward. However, that's exactly what made it so good.

Every time you turn on your Gameboy Color to play this game, you start over from the beginning of the game: with no saved files or saved progress! There is, however, a long, numerical password that you can punch in to advance to a specific part of the game. Nonetheless, I hardly used it, since the inability to save the game, that many newer gamers would criticize, were okay with me. The game's story is very short and, within a few hours, you could recomplete all of the challenges and levels. There are five levels, to be exact, that you can try in any order. These levels feature different locations, such as a subway, a dam, etc., with three tasks available for you to accomplish. Playing as one of the colored Power Rangers, your jobs are to save people, fight bad-guys, and, at the end, fight a giant monster in your own giant robot: the Power Rangers' "Megazord".

Each ranger has a specific specialty; for example, the Blue Ranger is the most durable, the Green Ranger is the most powerful, and the Red Ranger is the most well balanced, etc. You can choose any ranger, to use in any level, and you play until you beat the level or all your rangers die. In addition, your ranger can navigate through each level using different pathways, so the game offers a lot of choice: choice of levels, rangers, and paths.

I especially appreciate this game more than some of the newer Power Ranger games, such as Power Rangers S.P.D., for the Gameboy "Advance" (and I use the term, "Advance" lightly) because none of the newer ones offer that same freedom of choice and arcade-like feel. I've seen how poorly Light Speed Rescue has been rated, on Gamespot.com, and I think it's disappointing that the newbies don't get why this game deserves praise.



Power Rangers Light Speed Rescue isn't lengthy, graphically advanced, or sophisticated at all. However, truly sophisticated gamers would understand this underappreciated and overall good game.

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