

Putty Squad is a window that provides a view to the medium of games as it existed nearly two decades ago, but instead of instilling any sense of nostalgic longing it simply makes the player appreciate how far interactive entertainment has come.

Bust-A-Move Live Puzzle & Trivia Taito: Taito: Sep 30, 2009: Unreleased Unreleased Unreleased XBLA Puzzle Chronicles. The controls get a bit more bearable with practice, but the hour or two it takes for them to become tolerable is something near torture. Putty Squad: Platformer System 3: System 3: Jun 25, 2014: Unreleased Unreleased Unreleased XBLA XBO Puzzle Arcade: Puzzle & Trivia CTXM Square Enix: Dec 24, 2008: Dec 24, 2008: Unreleased Unreleased XBLA Puzzle Bobble a.k.a. Awkward and unintuitive inputs leave players fighting with their controllers as they attempt to perform the simplest of actions, including Putty's stretch moves and even his jumps. Sega Mega Drive and MS-DOS ports also existed, but were cancelled. It was originally developed for the Amiga 1200, but that version was not released until the end of 2013 prior to that date the SNES version was the only one to be released.

Crammed with characters bereft of personality and generic audio effects that would have seemed passé even two decades ago, its nonsensical mash-up of googly-eyed putty balls, military hardware, and environments inspired by cultural clichés is difficult to endure. Putty Squad is a 1994 video game developed by System 3 and published by Maximum Games and Ocean Software. Putty Squad's bland and derivative presentation combines with frustratingly clunky mechanics to make it a difficult game to enjoy.
