Sparkster
1994 Super NES game
Sparkster (スパークスター, Supākusutā) is a 1994 platform game developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the only game in the Rocket Knight series to be released on a Nintendo console, and was directed by Hideo Ueda. Sparkster is a sequel to the original Rocket Knight Adventures for the Sega Genesis, though it is a different game than the similarly titled Genesis sequel, Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2.
Gameplay
Total! described Sparkster as a "platform blaster".
The eponymous main character is Sparkster, an opossum knight who fights an army of yellow wolves and robots. He is armed with a sword that can fire energy bolts and a rocket pack that allows him to fly short distances. The gameplay remains mostly the same as in Mega Drive/Genesis games, with the most notable change being the addition of a short-distance rolling dash. At the end of every level, Sparkster battles a boss, and the level is complete when it is defeated. The third (second in Easy) stage consists of Sparkster riding a robot-ostrich in an auto-scrolling level, while the seventh (fifth in Easy) consists of a top-down shooter level.
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