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Instruction booklet · October 1996

Oscar

Platform1 playerESRB E

The story

Your name is Oscar. You have to run and jump through 7 Levels in Hollywood-style (Science Fiction, Western, Horror, Cartoons, Dino, Detective and Gameshow) to find Oscars (yes – the Academy Award!).

Specifications

Released: October 1996
Developer: Flair Software
Publisher: Titus Software
Players: 1
Genre: Platform
Rating: ESRB E
Series: Oscar
Themes: Action
View: Side view

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players: 24/100 (6 ratings)
TILT: 86%

BE KIND, REWINDOctober 1996

#1 song

Macarena" (Bayside Boys Mix)Los del Río #1 album

Falling into YouCeline Dion Admit one · #1 movie

The First Wives Club$11,017,356 weekend

Vol. 6 · No. 268Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of October 4, 1996

Oct. 4

Discovery Science debuts.

💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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Data: IGDB · Wikipedia · libretro-thumbnails · Charts: Billboard · Box office: Box Office Mojo via Wikipedia. Today’s money uses US CPI-U, 2025 dollars.