Nightmare Fuel / Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt

• If Awesome loses a life, there's a chance that one of the animations will show his corpse rotting into a skeleton.
• The giant bees roughly the size of Awesome are supposed to look like cartoony companions. Several creative liberties with their anatomy, like their beak-like mouths and giant eyes, left players unnerved.
• The animal council. They have a bizarrely foreboding theme, and several council members (which includes many apex predators) look like they're about to strike. If you get their question wrong, the soundtrack suddenly stops on a distorted electronic noise, as if your Genesis just crashed. It doesn't help that the croc and jaguar appear to have bloody teeth, since their gums and tongue are colored the same.
• The Game Over screen. Awesome's abandoned grave can be seen in a garbage dump, with the environment going down with him.
• Several aspects of the beta:
  • Awesome's Expressive Health Bar shows his face gradually decaying until it becomes a skull.
  • The aforementioned rotting life loses animation is the only one that plays in this version.
  • The skeleton gets bounced around much easier in this version.
  • The unused Game Over effect has the screen go red upon losing the last life, makes the final product's game over screen even worse.