Rocket Knight Adventures

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Item Description

Very few platform heroes can claim a jetpack, a sword and a prehensile tail, but Sparkster, the opossum knight of Zebulos, has all three, and Konami put every one of them to work. Rocket Knight Adventures arrived on the Genesis in 1993 as an original creation rather than a port or a license, and it plays like a studio showing off.

The pig soldiers of the Devotindos Empire have invaded, and their emperor is after the Key to the Pig Star, so Sparkster rockets off to stop him. His rocket pack is the star of the show: hold the button to charge it, then let go to blast across the screen in the direction you choose, ricocheting off walls and smashing through enemies. He can hang from branches and pipes by his tail, and his sword can fling a short burst of energy at anything just out of reach.

What really makes the game is how often it changes the rules. Across seven stages you ride, fly and climb in new directions, take on mechanized monsters with names like the Giant Pigbot, the Drill Of A Lifetime and the snappy Crab Rangoon, and face the black knight Axel Gear in a room where gravity keeps rotating. One area plays tricks with lava pools that mirror the action above them, and one stretch turns into a full-on flying shooter. Konami's flair for spectacle is everywhere, from towering bosses to layered scrolling backdrops, and the challenge is firm without feeling cheap.

Sparkster went on to star in two different 1994 sequels, one on the Genesis and one on the Super NES, and returned years later in a modern revival, but this first adventure is the one fans hold up as the series at its sharpest. It is exactly the kind of inventive, confident Konami platformer that makes digging through the Genesis library so rewarding, and a reminder that the 16-bit era's best mascots did not all wear red caps or blue spikes.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB

Released: 1993
Publisher: Konami
Genre: Shooter, Platformer
Players: Single player

About the game

He's courageous! He's clever! He's one good lookin' opossum. It's Sparkster the Rocket Knight, the heroic jet pack jockey with warp speed, quick wits and pumped up personality. After all, who else do you know can get a grip with his tail? Rocket through 7 epic stages of animalistic adventure, home of the hugest, strangest enemy pig creatures imaginable. (In fact, your mission is crammed with more ham than a Hollywood premier.) Destroy the Emperor who's on a porcine power trip that will take him to the Key to the Pig Star. In every stage you'll be moving, flying and riding in a new direction to escape opossum punishment. You're the thrust-meister controlling Sparkster's jet pack and his assault sword. Confront mechanized menaces like the Giant Pigbot, the Drill Of A Lifetime, and the snappy Crab Rangoon. Things take a turn for the worst in the room of rotating gravity where Axle Gear, the Black Knights awaits you. And you've never seen anything like the unreal mirrored lava pools where things will reflect badly on you. The tricks, the traps and challenges never end. But the world as you know it will if you don't grind those pigs for sausage.

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