uglier and more muddled." Ashens criticises the sound effects, calling them "irritating", and notes that playing the Atari ST version on anything but an Atari STe removes them, replacing them with stock sound chip effects, which Ashens expresses is a more 'tolerable' alternative. Ashens also criticises Top Banana's gameplay and its difficulty, calling it "semi-playable" and a "badly executed platformer". When discussing the other versions of the game, Ashens says while the original Acorn Archimedes version is better than the ports, it is still not a good game. Amiga Power gave the Amiga version of Top Banana an overall score of 45%, starting their review by stating that "the last thing I wanted to have thrust at me was a game featuring psychedelic 'acid' graphics, a 'dance' soundtrack, a naive ecological plot, environmentally-friendly packaging and things that wobble the screen about when you walk into them." Amiga Power criticises Top Banana's gameplay, plot, and graphics, comparing its gameplay to Rainbow Islands, stating that "Rainbow Islands does it all a hundred times better" and calls the traps that reverse the player's controls 'irritating', and the graphics "confusing" and that it's "impossible to see what's going on most of the time". Amiga Power also expresses that there 'isn't much to do', summarizing Top Banana's gameplay as "just collecting, shooting, and climbing." German gaming magazine Amiga Joker gave Top Banana an overall score of 16%, beginning their review with the following: "Our beautiful Earth is in a miserable state: the rainforests are dying, the hole in the ozone gets bigger every day, the sea levels are rising uncontrollably, and environmentally friendly software also gets worse! The box is made of recycled cardboard, which makes it very environmentally friendly - but the platforming game inside is unfortunately everything but friendly. Although this game follows in the tradition of Captain Planet and the packaging states it is "as engrossing as Sonic and Mario", the reality is quite different: what you see on your screen will ruin your eyes, destroy your eardrums and kill every last nerve." Amiga Joker continues their review by criticising its graphics and gameplay, saying that "it plays even more boring than we have described it here; moreover there may as well be nothing recognisable on the screen: [there are] disgusting, barely animated digital graphics in hideous colors." Amiga Joker furthermore expressed their disdain for the music, gameplay and sound effects, calling