Tinhead
Microprose · 2019 · Action, Adventure, Platformer
PC
8 user reviews63% · 8 📉 Recent reviews down 50%
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About Tinhead
TINHEAD
Once there was peace in the Galaxy.
Then the evil Grim Squidge stole all of the stars, threatening to hurl the Galaxy into a horrible Cosmic Void.
Who will save the stars before it's too late?
Tinhead, Defender of the Edge of the Galaxy, of course!
Leap, slide, hop, fly and shoot your way through wacky worlds and super-tricky challenging levels as you guide Tinhead to free the stars. Take on pesky spinning Krystals, relentless flying Saw-Sirs and hordes of mega-tough bosses. Grab radical power-ups and zany vehicles like Batteries, hyper-Hoppers and Rocket Packs to help Tinhead through each weird, monster-jammed world.
4 tin-tillating worlds with 24 super challenging levels
Unique pause-and-scroll to see the action offscreen
3-way shooting power to blast the baddies
Dozens of power-ups and hidden bonus areas
Once there was peace in the Galaxy.
Then the evil Grim Squidge stole all of the stars, threatening to hurl the Galaxy into a horrible Cosmic Void.
Who will save the stars before it's too late?
Tinhead, Defender of the Edge of the Galaxy, of course!
Leap, slide, hop, fly and shoot your way through wacky worlds and super-tricky challenging levels as you guide Tinhead to free the stars. Take on pesky spinning Krystals, relentless flying Saw-Sirs and hordes of mega-tough bosses. Grab radical power-ups and zany vehicles like Batteries, hyper-Hoppers and Rocket Packs to help Tinhead through each weird, monster-jammed world.
4 tin-tillating worlds with 24 super challenging levels
Unique pause-and-scroll to see the action offscreen
3-way shooting power to blast the baddies
Dozens of power-ups and hidden bonus areas
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Tinhead is an ancient game from 1993. It's a whopping 31 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. Tinhead is just another rejected 2D platformer for the Sega Genesis. You may be wondering why a crap rejected Sega Genesis belongs on Steam and the answer is, you're right, it doesn't. This is another abandonware cash grab by Piko Interactive, who swindle their hands onto old abandoned/broken/dead games then try to swindle Steam gamers into paying them for someone else's old abandoned game. Ethical? Nope. This was never a good platformer. It's a shooter centric platformer where you collect pickups that enhance your attacks then go do some boss fights, but nobody bothered back on the Genesis and nobody is bothering now, either. This was garbage then and it's worse now... it just throws a spotlight on this shady gr…10 found this helpful
Launches with a black screen, sound and music can be heard, but then it crashes.8 found this helpful
just encouraging an update for this game as it will not run in my experience unless you use win95 compatibility and i imagine the experience suffers for it4 found this helpful
is a interesting plataform game very hard and unforgiving not gonna the way the character move he is a bit too fast and you always feel like skating on ice ussually leading to spikes pros cool music cool graphics cute looking adorable character thankfully you can save states cons is very very unforgiving even for old school plataform standard so expect frustaiton it have a weird bug wont let you launch unless you launch it on windows 95 i recommend it cause overall is a good game2 found this helpful
the level design is complete crap this game sucks1 found this helpful
A re-release of an old game. It's unfair, frustrating and should have been left to languish in obscurity.1 found this helpful
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