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Freddy Hardest is a handsome Spanish hero with a banana-shaped face created by Dinamic featuring in a couple of titles by this software company ...

The game is fun and the graphics are above average ...

Freddy Hardest is one of the best titles of the "wave" of Dinamic games which came around between 1986 and 1987, together with other classics like Army Moves and Game Over.

Compared with those titles, Freddy Hardest is a bit easier - yet no cakewalk either! As them, it's divided in two halves, where the eponymous character, having accidentally collided with a small planet, must find a way to return home. The trouble is, the planet is filled with sentient lifeforms that appear not to like Freddy's presence at all!

In the first half, Freddy must walk from left to right, leaving the wreck of his spacecraft behind, in order to find an alien base, where - in the second half - he must hack the computers in order to unlock the take off sequence of an escape shuttle.

Large, clear and detailed graphics, nice sound effects and two wildly different but equally challenging parts make Freddy Hardest a great game and one of Dinamic's best offers ever.

1987 Dinamic Software (Spain)
by Emilio Torrado, Luis Soler, Javier Cubedo, Manuel Cubedo and Raul Palacios

Not being a huge fan of spanish games (althou I like some), I must admit Freddy Hardest (or Bananaman as I like calling him because he looks just like him without the mask) is a nice playable game. The main problem is the same with almost every spanish game: the playabiliby.
The movements are not precise, mostly due to the use of blocks instead of pixels and the characters dont act in the right moment you press a key, making the games slow, annoying and difficult. Despite all that, the graphics as usual, are very good. FH is a simple game, at least in the first part, being basically an horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up, and becaming a bit more complex in the 2nd part where you have to deal with several computers and stuff. As I said in the begginning, Freddy Hardest is a nice playable game, but spoiled by the method of programming.

Two loads or so, the first level being a horizontal scrolling mix of shooting, beating and jumping on some alien surface, and the the second a sort of vastly improved version of Ocean's V. It's ok, a bit on the dull side, though.
3,25/5

This is a interesting little game. It's presented like a sci-fi movie presentation at the start complete with rolling credits. It looks pretty good but the gameplay is pretty naff. Freddy's jumping is a nightmare and caused me many a problem. It's all becomes underwhelming as you play on which is a shame given the intro. There's a part two also but I wasn't good enough to reach it. So it's a nicely presented game with decent graphics that's let down by some mediocre gameplay.