History VideoGame / AwesomePossumKicksDrMachinosButt

* DownInTheDumps: "Dr. Machino's Domain" and "The Fortress of Garbage" an actual landfill complete with the additional dark skies, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil menacing mechas]] and jefferies tubes.

%%* PollutedWasteland: What Dr. Machino is turning the world into.

* InformedAttribute: If you haven't gotten it yet, Awesome Possum will remind you that he is very "awesome".

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Awesome. He wears no shoes.

* CaptainErsatz: Awesome and Dr. Machino are clearly based off of [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Robotnik]]. Awesome's main attack is [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} outright copied]] from Sonic's own spin attack.

* VirtuousBee: One of the characters assisting Awesome in his attempt to save the environment is a giant bee called "Killer Bee".

* AllThereInTheManual: Exactly how Awesome came to be fighting against Machino, as well as he first came to meet Killer Bee and Rad Rhino, is only revealed in the ComicBookAdaptation which came with the game's manual.

* BeeAfraid: You'll face more than one giant, deformed bee over the course of the game.

* OwMyBodyPart: Awesome may occasionally say "Ow! My tail-end!" when hit.

** Simply falling unconscious on his back
** [[StrippedToTheBone Rotting into a skeleton]] (this was also the only animation that played in the beta

** [[LiterallyShatteredLives Shattering apart]] and a tombstone popping up among his remains.

* ObviousBeta: This game runs extremely slowly. The framerate is so low that it can be practically unplayable, even at the best of times. It tops out around 15 frames per second... and in some areas, it even drops to single digits.

''Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt'' is a 1993 platformer by Tengen for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. You play as the titular possum, fighting against [[CaptainErsatz Dr. Machino]] and his robot army as they despoil the environment.

* GreenAesop: Dr. Machino is destroying the environment and you have to stop him. Not just the storyline, either. Every level ends with a quiz about the environment.

* PowerUpLetdown: The speed boost. Considering how touchy the controls are, all the speed boost does is send Awesome Possum careening into either a bottomless pit or an enemy.
* PowerUpMount: Assorted animals, such as the Rhino (which is prominently featured on the game cover) and the Giant Bee, allow Awesome to ride them, which lets him get through stages more quickly and mow down enemies more effectively.

* RushmoreRefacement: [[BrokenAesop You celebrate your victory by desecrating more of the environment.]]

* {{Badbutt}}: As with most MascotWithAttitude era protagonists, though he takes it UpToEleven.

%%* {{Badbutt}}: As with most MascotWithAttitude era protagonists.

%%* BigNo: Awesome's DeathCryEcho, except when he loses his final life.me/Sonic3AndKnuckles final zone]].

%%* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It tells exactly [[LiteralAssKicking what Awesome Possum will do to Dr. Machino]] when he defeats him.

* PowerUpMount: Assorted animals, such as the Rhino (which is prominently featured on the game cover) and the Giant Bee, allow Awesome to ride them, which let's him get through stages more quickly and mow down enemies more effectively.

* ExpressiveHealthBar: Awesome's expression sours as he loses health.
* FishbowlHelmet: Awesome gets one of these to navigate the Sea Caves levels (which entirely take place underwater), giving him [[SuperNotDrowningSkills unlimited air for the whole of them.]]
%%* GoombaStomp: Despite having a rolling attack like Sonic, this is Awesome's method of attack.

%%* MascotWithAttitude: Awesome Possum plays this as straight as an arrow, from his appearance, attitude, and his own name.

* ObviousBeta: This game runs extremely slowly. The framerate is so low that it is unplayable, even at the best of times. It tops out around 15fps... in some areas it drops to single digits.

%%* PowerUpMount: Assorted animals, such as the Rhino, which is prominently featured on the game cover.

%%* TitleScream: "Awe-SOME Possum, kicks DOC-TOR MA-CHI-NO'S ''BUTT!''" "I'm Awesome!"

%%* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Awesome.

%%* CaptainErsatz: Awesome and Dr. Machino are clearly based off of [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Robotnik]]. Awesome's main attack is [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} outright copied]] from Sonic's own spin attack.

%%* FishbowlHelmet: Awesome gets one of these to navigate the Sea Caves levels (which entirely take place underwater), giving him [[SuperNotDrowningSkills unlimited air for the whole of them.]]

%%* GreenAesop: Not just the storyline, either. Every level ends with a quiz about the environment.

%%* LiteralAssKicking: As part of the ending, while a chorus sings the game's title, just like it does when [[TitleScream the game starts up]].

''Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt'' is a 1993 platformer by Tengen for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. You play as the titular possum, fighting against [[CaptainErsatz Dr. Machino]] and his robot army as they despoil the environment. This is not all he fights against; in addition to robots and traps, he must struggle with slippery controls, clipping issues, slowdown, poor hit detection, sloppy level design, and voice samples that insist on reminding the player that Awesome Possum has 'tude.

* {{Badbutt}}: As with most MascotWithAttitude era protagonists.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Awesome.

* BigNo: Awesome's DeathCryEcho, except when he loses his final life.
* BleakLevel[=/=]DownInTheDumps: "Dr. Machino's Domain" and "The Fortress of Garbage" an actual landfill complete with the additional dark skies, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil menacing mechas]] and jefferies tubes, a likely sort that makes the place very reminiscent of a certain [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles final zone]].

* CaptainErsatz: Awesome and Dr. Machino are shameless ripoffs of Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Robotnik. Awesome's main attack is [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} outright stolen]] from Sonic's own spin attack.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin[=/=]SpoilerTitle: It tells exactly [[LiteralAssKicking what Awesome Possum will do to Dr. Machino]] when he defeats him.

* ExpressiveHealthBar: Awesome's expression sours as he loses health. His faces provide the trope's page image.
* FishbowlHelmet: Awesome gets one of these to navigate the Sea Caves levels (which entirely take place underwater), giving him [[SuperNotDrowningSkills unlimited air for the whole of them.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin What did you expect?]]
* GoombaStomp: Despite having a rolling attack like Sonic, this is Awesome's method of attack.
* GreenAesop: Not just the storyline, either. Every level ends with a quiz about the environment.

* LiteralAssKicking: As part of the ending, while a chorus sings the game's title, just like it does when [[TitleScream the game starts up]].
* MascotWithAttitude: Awesome Possum plays this as straight as an arrow, from his appearance, attitude, and his own name.

* ObviousBeta: This game runs absolutely abysmally. The framerate is so low that it is unplayable at the best of times. It tops out around 15fps...in some areas it drops to single digits.
* PollutedWasteland: What Dr. Machino is turning the world into.

* PowerUpMount: Assorted animals, such as the Rhino, which is prominently featured on the game cover.
* RushmoreRefacement: [[BrokenAesop You celebrate your victory by desecrating more of the environment.]]
* ShowDontTell: Awesome Possum reaffirming that he's awesome, so cool; etc., when more respectable [[MascotWithAttitude mascots]] like [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] or [[VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures Sparkster]] never needed to.

* TitleScream: "Awe-SOME Possum, kicks DOC-TOR MA-CHI-NO'S ''BUTT!''" "I'm Awesome!"

Compare to Creator/{{Konami}}'s ''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures'' series, which was another video game with a mascot opossum for the Sega Genesis, coincidentally released the same year as Awesome Possum (but predating it by two months) and held in much better esteem.