Even though both beat-em-ups and 90s nostalgia have been riding high recently, I didn’t have a revival for the original “teenagers with attitude” on my 2024 Bingo card—making Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind all the more pleasant a surprise.
This arcade-style co-op adventure returns to 1994, literally and figuratively, as an evil cyborg version of the nefarious Rita Repulsa sends herself thirty years into the past to finally beat her arch-nemeses. Players step into the spandex of the original Power Rangers just as they’ve received their powers and battle the combined villainy of “Robo-Rita” and the original iteration of Rita.
In a similar manner to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind spans over a dozen nostalgia-laden stages and incorporates a fairly simple engine for up to five simultaneous players. The majority of those stages are your standard beat-em-up fare: clobber hordes of disposable... Read more