Brought to you by the same developers behind the Donkey Kong Country series, and it's a total flop.
This is one of many side projects that Rare has developed for the Milton Bradley Company at the time. In this action-platforming game, it is the year 2999, and warriors from the planet Drakkon are launching a savage attack on Earth. Their weapon: a powerful time travel device. Their objective: to control us by changing the course of our history. To win this war, we must meet the Drakkons on a unique and dangerous battleground: our own past!
The terrible graphics look like they were made in Microsoft Paint, especially when you count the colors in this game. Just look at these screenshots!
The controls are very atrocious, even by 1990 principles. For example, you can't even run at all. Also, the controls are very stiff, making you vulnerable to multiple hits by enemies.
When you're on the ground, you can't even fight off the incoming bombs that are thrown at you from above, making it unfair and easy for you to take damage. For some reason, when you move forward, enemies will suddenly appear from the border of the game and unfairly attempt to attack you.
The storyline is completely nonsensical: You go back in time to prevent the aliens from altering time, but here's where the problems become even more problematic. If the objective is to stop the aliens from conquering the human race, then why bother fighting enemies that have nothing to do with aliens and just take out the final boss beforehand? In fact, why are the pirates, cowboys, and knights even in the game to begin with?! The ending is bland: After you defeat the final boss, you are redirected to a wall of text saying "You have saved the Earth and driven the evil aliens from our planet."
The time-limit until January 1, 3000 is absolutely abysmal. And get this: Once it reaches January 1, 3000, the planet gets blown up and the game ends, pretty much insulting the players in the process. When you get a game over, you don't get any continues at all, which is unacceptable, even for a game published by the Milton Bradley Company. Instead, it takes you directly to the leaderboards, which is pretty common in games that are meant for the arcades at the time.
This game is nothing but a waste of time.