Poor old Sprocket was a misunderstood mutt. Old Captain Birdseye thought his canine companion was mad, always staring into a hole in the skirting board. But he wasn't barking at all - he knew that the Fraggles were hiding in there...
Andy Ashwin

Hurrah! Someone else remembers Fraggle Rock. I thought Sprocket was cool. That old goat didn't know sh...
Easy tiger. Don't diss Doc - he couldn't help looking just like a fish finger salesman. Anyway, we're not here to talk about the fantastic Fraggle Rock. We're here to talk about Sprocket, a cheeky new N64 platformer from the resurgent Ubi Soft.

Ah... I see what you've done. It's just another one of your irrelevant yet amusing intros.
It's a fair cop. There is some relevance though - Fraggle Rock was a great show and Sprocket is shaping up to be a bit of a corker too. This is the first game from US developer Sucker Punch and it looks set to really put them on the map.

So what's the background story and who is Sprocket?
Sprocket is the favourite toy robot of Dr Gavin, creator of an extra-galactic theme park called Whoopie World. It's the day before the park opens and one of the mascots, Jo Jo the Racoon, is sick of playing second fiddle to Whoopie the Walrus. Jo Jo is hell-bent on wrecking everything in sight, as well as exposing Whoopie as a useless blob of blubber. Sprocket is Dr Gavin's only hope of saving Whoopie World.

A robot? How boring. I'll stick with an Italian plumber if it's all the same to you.
Hang on a minute - Sprocket is one cool robot. He may look like a unicycle with a big head and no arms, but he's got plenty of cool tricks up his sleeve... so to speak. A head-mounted tractor beam enables Sprocket to perform all your usual arm-assisted tasks (push, pull, lift, throw, etc) and much more besides.