PUTTY SQUAD
VARIOUS, 1994
■ Like Putty, its sequel is a rescue mission, although this time around you’re saving putties that have become prisoners of war. The follow-up is more ambitious, with 50 levels to the first game’s seven, and there’s a different approach to its level design. It’s more obvious how to get around the stages in Putty Squad than those in Putty, which were almost puzzle-like in how you had to work out which power to use in order to get from platform to platform. The cancelled Amiga version Mark mentions was finally released in 2013, largely thanks to the efforts of Phill Boag-Butcher (see Retro Gamer 125).