141 · Bionic Commando
Get set for rapid fire action as you're transformed into the Bionic Commando. This best-seller from Capcom is a dynamic adaptation of the original arcade classic. Expect an onslaught of challenges and extraordinary graphics when you battle enemy forces in their futuristic lands. Your powerful extending bionic arm and incredible arsenal of weapons gives you all you need to become an unstoppable one-man army.
SHOW NOTES
Bionic Commando NES Longplay
Bionic Commando Manual
Bionic Commando GameBoy
Bionic Commando: Elite Forces
Bionic Commando ReArmed
Bionic Commando ReArmed 2
Bionic Commando (2009)
World of Power
Commando
Show notes
- A NEW BREED OF HERO!
- Introductions
- Is this the sequel to Commando? They are both Capcom Games (SAME SUPER JOE)
- How do you feel about these games?
- Gameplay
- OVERVIEW
- Action-platformer
- Super Joe is equipped with a mechanical arm featuring a grappling gun, allowing him to pull himself forward or swing from the ceiling.
- A platform game in which the player cannot jump
- The game is more notable as an NES title because of this feature
- Flaws of the claw
- Platform differences (ala Bubble Bobble)
- Climb vs Swing
- It would still be a long/difficult/detailed game without the claw
- Bonus features? Grab enemies, pulley system, Strength or claw upgrades
- The importance of exploration/communication/power ups
- Overworld Tactics
- Go wherever you want, but enemies advance as well
- Why are they not numbered?
- Commando style fight with enemies
- Our first game fighting Nazis? Usually Russian allegories
- HITLER EXPLOSION
- OVERVIEW
- Story
- SUPER JOE
- There’s a lot of story here. Kind of reminds me Metal Gear. Anyone got the gist?
- Localization
- All references to Nazism in text and imagery were removed for the English localization. The Empire in the Japanese version was actually a neo-Nazi nation and the Imperial Army's insignia was a Nazi Swastika with a thunderbolt behind it.
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- A portable adaptation of Bionic Commando was released for the Game Boy in 1992.
- The Game Boy version is based on the NES game, featuring the same gameplay and stages, as well as a similar plot, but changes the present day setting of the NES version into a futuristic one.
- Bionic Commando: Elite Forces 1999 GBC
- Adds teammates and a Sniper Rifle
- A second remake, titled Bionic Commando Rearmed came out in 2008 for PS3/360
- Enhanced remake
- Bionic Commando (2009, PS3/360)
- Sequel to the NES game, Third Person Shooter
- This game has so much story that WORLD OF POWER scholastic had to skip most of it
- A portable adaptation of Bionic Commando was released for the Game Boy in 1992.
- EGL
- Next week - BLADES OF STEEL