Super Spy Hunter

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Item Description

The Aquapolis freeway is half swallowed by the sea, and drifting off the visible asphalt sends your car straight to the bottom. That is how Super Spy Hunter introduces itself: a road-combat shooter that keeps throwing new terrain at you while enemy cars, trucks and helicopters do everything they can to run you off the map. Sunsoft built it from Battle Formula, its own Famicom racing shooter, then dressed it in Spy Hunter colors through a deal with Bally Midway, and the result is a late-era NES action game with far more muscle than a licensed name might suggest.

The six missions escalate fast. The Desert of Doom hides quicksand that drags down your armor, Hazardous Detour loops you around a branching road until you pick the right path, and Collapsible Canyon sends you off ramps high enough to shoot helicopters out of the sky above a see-through floor and a very long drop. Later the chase turns amphibious and then airborne, with boat and plane stretches before the final assault on the Weapons Factory, a gauntlet of spiked drills, lightning and returning bosses. Those bosses are big mechanical set pieces: armored tanks that break apart as you shoot, a five-barrel laser cannon, a giant eye flanked by lasers and, at the very end, a Super Missile.

Upgrades make every run feel like your own. Red vehicles boost your main cannon with directional aim, extra power, rapid fire and more armor, and they stay with you until you are destroyed. Blue vehicles carry extra lives and secondary weapons such as screen-clearing bombs, oil slicks, tire slashers and a detachable cannon. You also control your own speed, and on-screen turn signals plus “Jump!” and “Stop!” warnings give you a fair chance to read the road, so the early stages ease you in before the later ones turn mean.

It wears the same Sunsoft badge as Batman and Blaster Master, and the publisher's flair for punchy music and big moments shows all the way through. If the original Spy Hunter's cat-and-mouse driving was what hooked you, this is that idea pushed into wilder territory, with stranger roads, louder explosions and a vehicle that has to survive water, sand and sky to finish the job.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1991
Publisher
SUNSOFT
Players
Single player
About the game

After Japanese video game developer Sunsoft ported Spy Hunter to the Nintendo Entertainment System, the company created Battle Formula with similar gameplay. Sunsoft America signed a deal with Bally Midway to release it outside Japan as Super Spy Hunter. The Super Spy Hunter has a super spy car. It's actually a well-armed car that can turn into a boat or a plane at opportune times. The action is fast vertical scrolling as the vehicle faces all manner of powerful vehicle threats from a well-funded terrorist enemy -- cars, trucks, helicopters, etc. Luckily, there are many powerups to collect along the way, both defensive and offensive.

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Watch gameplaySuper Spy Hunter on NES
Video: Super Spy Hunter

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