Yogi Bear is a great platforming adventure with graphics that are, to say the least, excellent, right down to the background scenes and the funny looking animal enemies. The music in this game is good and keeps with the theme of the game. All in all this fun game is worth playing, so enjoy yourself!

     Like most husbands, Fred Flintstone doesn’t need a brain. He has a wife. Wilma guides this poor sap throughout the game. But at least she uses finesse. She never tells him what to do, she just tells him what needs to be done. So there you have it folks, the game any woman can enjoy. It should have been titled “A Stone Age Henpecked Doofus”.

     Fred is searching for something. Probably some peace and quiet, but like most men, that will only come at death. For now he must look for missing items and fight prehistoric creatures on the way. He climbs, jumps and clubs things. Just your standard cave-man existence.

     Fred was a caveman. What an original term: caveman. How many archaeologists with Phd’s did it take to come up with that? He’s a man and he lives in a cave, let’s call him caveman. Wow, the brilliance that only educated people can come up with.

     He developed the use of fire, invented the wheel and understood enough about Global Warming to not invent the internal combustion engine. He was even smart enough to know that Jell-O pudding should go into the refrigerator, not the microwave. But was he called fireman or wheelman or even puddingman, no, caveman.

     Well gosh darn, I guess he was lucky to have caves. What if he had been forced to build his home in giant dinosaur cow patties. Then some genius would have called him CowPattyMan. That would really have impressed his wife and kids. And what did CowPattyMan invent? The clothespin. For hanging out his clothes? No, for pinning his nose shut so he could stand the stink of living in a giant cow patty.

     The background music is not much in this game. Monotonous and repetitive. Every once in a while you will hear a note or two from the theme song of the TV cartoon or maybe they were from Procol Harum’s “Whiter Shade of Pale”. No it couldn’t be that, cause I love that song. And when Fred strikes with his club, you would think he was sweeping the floor. Couldn’t these folks afford a sound technician?

     However the graphics are great. In fact, one of the houses on the screen looks just like one I used to live in. Fred looks fabulous. He hasn’t even aged. Everything is drawn like as it might have appeared on the cartoon. Light and happy.

     Scooby-Doo has two mysteries to solve: one in a Haunted Hotel, the other in a Circus. The stories start like a Scooby-Doo cartoon, informing you of the situation and introducing the suspects. When you begin the game for the first time, keep your finger off the trigger and allow the introduction to play and you will be as prepared to solve the mystery as would be Miss Marple, JB Fletcher, Magnum or Barney Fife.

     In addition to having a storyline, Scooby-Doo actually has a story. The game has better interactive capabilities than the typical “solve everything with mindless violence” games that are in the market place. Numerous actions can be selected to accomplish tasks rather than a simple choice of weapons to kill something with. Your character can not only talk but can even listen too.

You control a Smurf who is on an action packed rescue mission! Gargamel has captured Smurfette, taken her to his castle and has imprisoned her! You'll direct Smurf through the dangerous woods, fields and caverns on his way to her. He must run, duck, and jump to avoid the many natural hazards and elude the scary creatures Gargamel sends to stop him. Will you get Smurf to the castle to rescue Smurfette or will she remain imprisoned?
-Taken from the Smurf Rescue in Gargamel's Castle box cover

Man, I loved the smurfs. The little blue dudes in Hanna-Barbera animation entertained me for weeks while I waited for other shows to come on. And what better to make a video game for the Atari than to rescue Smurfette?

Cool fact: Smurfette was actually created by Gargamel in an attempt to take over the Smurfs. But it backfired and Smurfette stayed with the Smurfs. Another cool fact - she originally had black hair.