With the thesis that the one element classic arcade games were missing was bears in speedboats, SPEEDBEAR was created for the Tigsource B-Games compo. As it turns out, I was wrong, so this game is terrible. That’s mostly due to pacing: early levels are too easy and it ramps up too slowly, and the upgrade system takes forever to pay off, although once the Sinistar-type entity finally starts appearing it can get fun. The problem is, because of the dull ramp-up, there’s no reason to play more than once which is death for a score-oriented arcade game.
