Spark Man Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]
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Game Info
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Developer: SunA Electronics
Publisher: SunA Electronics
Year of Release: 1989
Game Review & Impressions
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Released in 1989, Spark Man is yet another of arcade gaming's most baffling oddities. This side-scrolling run-and-gun shooter might look reasonable in still screenshots, but anyone who's played it will understand just how rubbish this is. The fact the game opens with a weird cutscene that's clearly meant to be some humorous interpretation of Michelangelo's "The Hand of God", except it involves some weird android being tickled on the nose, sets the scene for aptly for what is to follow.
The biggest influence by far is the RoboCop coin-op, with gameplay focused on shooting enemies on various platforms, not to mention level design and artwork paying more than just homage being paid to Data East's game. However, there are plenty of other influences on display here, including Green Beret/Rush 'n Attack, enemy designs that look suspiciously similar to those from Rolling Thunder, and level graphics bearing uncanny similarities to Bionic Commando and Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja.
Unfortunately, SunA also forgot to take anything that made those games fun into consideration. The gameplay is terrible, enemy placement and AI abysmal, and generally too difficult to be even remotely enjoyable. The end-of-level boss involving shooting a bunch of guys hiding inside an armoured triceratops is just utterly stupid, not to mention near impossible to beat. Spark Man is coin-op jank of the highest order and should never have been released commercially.
I guess, if anything, the fact it exists means I get to make a video about this total oddity some 30+ years after its release.
Chapters
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TBC
Пікірлер: 65
A moment of silence for those who actually paid good money to play this.
😂LOL that nose scratching at start
There are many things in this abomination I cannot explain.
@internalwarrior2410
6 ай бұрын
That's not an understatement
It's like playing Rolling Thunder on a 2 day crack binge.🥴
I didn't know this game, thank you very much for the video.
Some pretty bizarre Kusoge action, there. The strangest boss has to be the metal triceratops with more bad guys coming out of his mouth than it's physically possible to fit inside.
@ElderSouls
6 ай бұрын
The fact you have a word (Kusoge) to describe this mess intrigues me. What does that mean?
@Wintericecrystal
6 ай бұрын
@@ElderSouls en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusoge
That looks like Robocop 3 on home consoles, but even worse.
The attract mode music before you insert coin was taken from the arcade game Gauntlet. The 2nd level boss at 4:00 is an AT-ST walker from Star Wars. The leaping black panthers on stage 3 are from Castlevania. The 4th stage boss at 8:30 is Jabba the Hutt resting on his pallet with his tail curled up. The stage 5 boss where you fight against the Hind helicopter in 3rd person view at 11:25 is from Rambo III on sega Genesis. Lastly, the music at the end screen after beating the last boss at 20:37 is The Ecstacy Of Gold from the Clint Eastwood movie The Good,The Bad & The Ugly
2:58 Ahh yes ! Who doesnt remember the best diner around town called "dicks"?
@murder.simulator
5 ай бұрын
Makes you wonder what's on the menu
Thanks for the upload. I agree with the last sentence in the description. Just wanted to add: The sound design - both the music and and sound effects - is a torture on it's own. No bass, soft 8bit era shooting sounds with elevator music in the background. The animation is acceptable most of the time - at least for that era -, but there are some cases like the 4 frame animation walker at 4:00 that makes this game hard to watch... even muted.
Why the horse??!!!😂😂
@randypeppercorn1865
6 ай бұрын
Hey...WHY NOT? ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ
@chesterfieldthe3rd929
6 ай бұрын
@@randypeppercorn1865 you know what, after mulling it over.......why not is right!
Spark Man is really a run-&-gun shooter that plays much like a hybrid of Rolling Thunder, Contra and RoboCop. Awesome! 😊 Hats off to AL82.
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SunA ❤ Gracias por compartir.
Hyper realistic almost to the point the US Army would use this as a simulator.
I believe these are the same people who made Hard Head 1 & 2, also arcade games with strict music resemblance(at least for the prequel)
@ryun.8072
6 ай бұрын
You're correct, both are made by Suna electronics
Birthday 1994, age 16. So this took place in the future of 2010. I knew all bets were off when Mount Rushmore wrapped for the third time. I did not, however, anticipate the AT-ST, nor the final boss to be a forklift.
@phlebiax5592
6 ай бұрын
And don't forget the Evil Jabba The Hutt as boss! And i think the Helicopter is from Rambo 3.
The kunfu music when he's riding the horse in-between boards is hilarious
That swiped Hajime Sorayama art though
This looks like a spin-off of the 1988 video game The Adventures Of Captain Comic. Like it takes place in the same science-fiction future world universe. I know that the story of Spark Man is not connected to Captain Comic, but it has a very similar strange and weird dark sci-fi comedy feel to it, just like that other video game also does, too.
The suna electronic game has a very strange sense, but I keep remembering why.
The most crackly game at the arcade.
The 2nd boss is an AT from Star Wars and the 3 is Jabba the Hut ??? 😅😅😅
If you look at the before game information screen on Spark Man, it shows them as both male and female. I wonder if this is one of the earliest games to show this.
This kinda to the Rolling Thunder games
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very strange game lol Star wars boss, weird music and sound effect, short life :D One the best japanese mad game ^^
@techronk
6 ай бұрын
😂 이거 한국에서 만들었어
@OdaVenom
6 ай бұрын
Star wars boss? There are two of them: walker and zombie Jabba.
@MrCydoo
6 ай бұрын
@@OdaVenom yes, sorry my english IS bad
@aphextriplet.
6 ай бұрын
@@techronk선아전자 ㅋㅋㅋ
@aphextriplet.
6 ай бұрын
@@OdaVenomIt’s 4 stage boss
Honestly I thought shooting the pilots to crash the boss machines was pretty neat..though yeah the game as a whole is deranged. Tbh that's why I enjoyed showing it to my friends when I played it in MAME! But if I remember right I had to cheat to beat The Forklift...
this is like the slut of arcade games,besides whats already been mentioned bitta operation wolf,cabal as well,what a weird game 🤣 thanx AL82 keepem coming🤟
Robocop
良いな~こーゆーゲーム。
Que raro un juego que no conozco ahora es mi pregunta es ¿stars wars? ¿rolling Turner ? ¿robocop? No es cierto son muy extraños nunca haya visito bueno siempre que pasan una joya en juegos de su época.
😂😂😂
シュール過ぎる
Oh wow this looks trash. I'm gonna download it right away!!
The game could have been named "Weirdocop" 😄
@ElderSouls
6 ай бұрын
It might have curbed expectations a lot better, actually!
Looks like a lazy mashup of Data East's Robocop arcade game with Rolling Thunder... with a ton of 80s movies ripped off for their aesthetics. I kept waiting for an answer as to what that electric finger touching that robot lady's nose was about and... nothin'!
So Sparkman is androgynous, as in depending on one's interpretation the hero could either be a man or woman?
@samuelcarrasquillo4590
6 ай бұрын
"Not A Word...!"
this is Korea game
Summary of game budget: Story boarding/planning: $12 Graphics: $100 Coding: $200 Audio: $3 QA: $0 Animation: $50 Grand Total: Don't play this game.
Looks great i think it could have worked as a terminator game after a few tweaks.
@randypeppercorn1865
6 ай бұрын
Terminator?! It doesn't even work as a Spark Man game 😆
@zerocool1ist
6 ай бұрын
It just reminded me of The Terminator on Sega CD.
What did you expect from a Korean developer that has the name of a Muslim sacred book?
Looks like a crap version of robo cop
lol, holy shit, this is a South Korean rip off of NES Rush'n Attack by Konami.
bad plagiat of "rolling thunder" 🤣🤣