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First there was the cartoon series on TV, then there was the movie and now there's the computer game. You are the muscle-bound hero as the battle between good and evil comes to Earth.

The Key to time travel has inadvertently made its way to Earth and Skeletor has followed so that he can use the Key to become Master Of The Universe. He-Man would much rather be the Master Of The Universe, and so he too has journeyed to Earth. Skeletor has brought Evil Lyn, his powerful ally, and a horde of troopers with im to ensure that he gains the Key. He-Man, on the other hand, has only brought his two friends Teela and Gwildor with him. Together they must stop Skeletor.

There are in fact five games rolled into one with this: the streets of modern day America, the scrapyard, Charlie's shop, the disk battle and the final confrontation. The streets are filled with troopers who you must dispatch with the aid of a gun while looking around for the eight chords that make up the Key. If you enter the scrapyard you have to fight two of Skeletor's best men in a simple combat game. When you've killed both you receive a chord.

In Charlie's shop you play a "Prohibition" type game where you have to shoot 70 of Skeletor's men. You're then given another chord. The third game is a shoot-'em-up where you fly around on a disk shooting Skeletor's men until you're greeted with a message that tells you Teela and Gwildor have been captured by Skeletor. Finally, you must confront Skeletor himself in a battle that will seal the fate of the Universe.

Sound is poor with only tinny effects and no tunes. The graphics in the streets are small and chunky; the scrapyard graphics are badly animated and incredibly slow.

Playing this game does get tedious, you just wander around trying to find pieces of chord and killing Skeletor's troops. Having to think occasionally would have been nice rather than just the mindless slaughter.

Green Screen View

Skeletor's men are difficult to spot in green.