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Hunt for Red October
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Item Description
Silence is the most valuable weapon aboard the Red October. The Soviet Union's newest missile submarine carries a caterpillar drive quiet enough to slip past enemy sonar, and Captain Marko Ramius intends to use it to defect to the United States. Tom Clancy's novel and the hit 1990 film with Sean Connery made that premise famous, and Beam Software's NES adaptation, published by Hi-Tech Expressions, turns it into a side-scrolling submarine action game.
You pilot the Red October through hostile waters, threading craggy undersea canyons, steering clear of what surface ships drop on you, and fending off enemy submarines and undersea defenses that stand between you and open water. You carry two kinds of missiles, one for targets ahead in the water and one for threats above, and the caterpillar drive lets you go quiet and slip away from pursuers when the odds stack up. The sub is heavy and deliberate, but the controls are tight, and navigating the terrain demands real care.
Then the NES version does something no other version does. Its final stage abandons the submarine entirely and switches to on-foot platforming, as Ramius himself searches the weapons bay for bombs planted by crew still loyal to Moscow before they can destroy the boat. Game Boy and Super NES versions followed, each a different game, but only the NES has this closing mission.
That variety is what lifts it above many movie games of the period. If you love the film or Cold War submarine thrillers, it is a chance to take the helm of the Red October yourself, with a tough, atmospheric campaign and a finale that changes the rules at the last moment.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Hi-Tech Expressions
- Developer
- Beam Software
- Genre
- Arcade
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The NES version has an exclusive level: the final stage changes to platform-style gameplay. The player, as Ramius, must find and disable bombs Soviet-loyal crewmembers have set in the weapons bay of the Red October.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayHunt for Red October on NES
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