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Sting

Sting to the rescue! If you like avoiding the mainstream but love playing a good old fashioned platformer, then this difficult to find little game is well worth the effort it takes to track down. It's pretty…

23 December 1998

Sting is a platform developed by Orange Soft Gravity Software, released 23 December 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Sting is

Sting is a platform game developed by Orange Soft Gravity Software and released in 1998. It was published by Orange Soft. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sting to the rescue! If you like avoiding the mainstream but love playing a good old fashioned platformer, then this difficult to find little game is well worth the effort it takes to track down. It's pretty much a straight knock off of platformers like Sonic, but it does so with charm, personality, and bags of entertainment. The story revolves around the adventures of a little blue hedgehog (Sonic's sister perhaps?) and finds her travelling through an array of colorful environments, although it's not entirely clear why this should be necessary. In classic platform fashion, she runs around, leaps a bit and dashes at the many enemies which litter her path. In similar style to the Kirby…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Sting launched on 23 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil.

Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Sting come out?
Sting was released on 23 December 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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