Second, he’s speaking English with Japanese subtitles despite the fact that this game has never been released outside of Japan. First and foremost, he looks like me in 20 years. This is hilarious to me for a few reasons. Sometimes he’s double-fisting Pepsi cans.
#PEPSIMAN ISO WITH MUSIC TV#
A fat American sitting in a chair watching Pepsiman on a TV and drinking Pepsi. Fortunately, if you run out of lives and get game over, you go to the main menu where you can save your game and restart from the last scene with a default of three lives.īetween each stage, you’re treated to a glorious live-action scene of an overweight American drinking Pepsi. These were always the hardest for me because running towards the screen means you have very little time to react to oncoming obstacles since you can’t see them off in the distance. If you’ve played the original Crash Bandicoot, then you know exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about. The third part of each stage involves running towards the screen rather than away from it as you try to outrun some giant thing chasing you. You can also do a very brief boost run and smash through some obstacles, but that’s not necessary until around the second half of the game. The first two scenes in each stage are your usual runner levels where you run straight through a world dodging obstacles that appear by either moving to the side, jumping over them, or sliding under them. There are four stages each consisting of three parts.
It’s an obviously low-budget game, but the developers ended up using that to the game’s advantage by playing up the low-budget charm. Actually, it’s probably exactly what BitTrip Runner would be if it had been made during the PS1 era. Pepsiman may not be a good game per se, but it’s definitely not a bad game. Did I make it my mission in life to play it anyway? You bet your Pepsi-chugging ass I did. Did I think this was going to be a legitimately good game? Of course not. Was there something keeping me from just emulating it? No. I REALLY wanted to play Pepsiman on authentic hardware. Pepsiman is approximately 75% of the reason that I got an Xstation ODE for my PS1. Review written by Stephen Deck originally published on Teacher by Day, Gamer by Nightīefore there was BitTrip Runner, there was Pepsiman.
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