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Captain Novolin
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Captain Novolin comes as a loose SNES cartridge, ready to plug in and play. What you're getting is the cartridge itself, clean and complete for anyone looking to add this genuinely rare piece of gaming history to their collection. Coolection's team tested it and it was playing as expected. Please refer to the provided photos for the exact details of the item's condition.
Item Description
Few superheroes have ever had a stranger mission than Captain Novolin. He is a costumed hero who lives with type 1 diabetes, and his enemies are aliens disguised as junk food: grinning doughnuts, candy and other sugary snacks that swarm the screen while he races to rescue the town's kidnapped mayor. It is among the oddest premises in the Super Nintendo library, and that is exactly why people still talk about it.
Published by Raya Systems in 1992 and developed by Sculptured Software, the game was created with Novo Nordisk, the maker of Novolin insulin, to help children learn to manage their own diabetes. The side-scrolling platforming is built around that goal. Captain Novolin has to keep his blood sugar in a healthy range by eating the right foods at the right times, the junk-food invaders are the hazards to steer clear of, and quiz questions about diabetes care check what players have picked up along the way.
As a platformer it is simple and slow, and critics have rarely been kind to it; it turns up regularly on lists of the strangest games ever made. Its importance lies elsewhere. Raya Systems went on to make several more health-focused SNES games, including Packy & Marlon about diabetes, Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus about asthma and Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon about the dangers of smoking. Captain Novolin opened that small, earnest experiment in using video games as medical education, and there is something endearing about how sincerely it tries to make health lessons feel like an adventure.
That history makes it a fascinating cartridge to own. It captures early-90s edutainment at its most heartfelt, says as much about its era's attitudes toward corporate-sponsored media as about platformer design, and proves the SNES library ran far wider than mascots and RPGs, all the way to a diabetic superhero battling an army of hostile doughnuts.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1992
- Publisher
- Raya Systems
- Developer
- Sculptured Software
- Genre
- Platformer
- Players
- Single player
About the game
This is a 16-bit platformer designed to help kids with diabetes remember to monitor their blood sugar.
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