Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando

Bionic Commando

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There is no jump button. Every move in Bionic Commando hangs on a mechanical arm that fires out, latches onto ledges and ceilings, and lets you swing across gaps, climb from platform to platform and pull yourself out of trouble. It feels strange for about a minute, then it becomes the most natural thing in the world, and very few action games of the era have anything like it.

Capcom's Game Boy version is not a simple shrink of the NES game. Developed by Minakuchi Engineering, it retells the story in a futuristic setting, with enemy soldiers in sci-fi armor and spiky hair instead of military uniforms. You play Rad Spencer of the FF Corps, sent to rescue the legendary soldier Super Joe from the Doraize Army before its leader, Director Wiseman, can bring a secret weapons project codenamed Albatross to life. A cinematic opening and ending, along with character portraits during conversations, make the story feel far more present than it did on the NES.

Between missions you pick your next destination on an overworld map, flying there in the DX-3 Turbocopter, and run-ins with enemy transports along the way play out as side-scrolling battles rather than the NES version's top-down encounters. Inside each area, the challenge is all about reading the layout and planning your grapples: where to anchor, when to let go, and how to swing past an enemy instead of trading fire with it. Getting the rhythm of the arm down is deeply satisfying, and the game is built to teach it one stage at a time.

The series began in arcades and became a cult favorite on the NES, and the Spencer name you see here is the one later entries in the series would carry forward. On the Game Boy, Bionic Commando is a reimagining with its own look, its own story and the same unforgettable swinging at its core, and it is the best way to play the series on a handheld from the era.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1992
Publisher
Capcom
Developer
Minakuchi Engineering
Players
Single player
About the game

The original arcade game was advertised in the United States as a sequel to Commando, going as far to refer to the game's main character as Super Joe (the protagonist of Commando) in the promotional brochure, who was originally an unnamed member of a "special commando unit" in the Japanese and World versions.

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