Rocket Knight Adventures
| Rocket Knight Adventures | |
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North American Genesis box art
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| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Director(s) | Nobuya Nakazato |
| Designer(s) | Nobuya Nakazato Shiori Satoh |
| Programmer(s) | Kenichiro Horio Koji Komata Kenji Miyaoka |
| Artist(s) | Yasushi Takano |
| Composer(s) | Masanori Oouchi Aki Hata Michiru Yamane Masanori Adachi Hiroshi Kobayashi Akira Yamaoka |
| Platform(s) | Sega Genesis |
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| Genre(s) | Platformer, scrolling shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Review scores | |
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| Publication | Score |
| CVG | 88% |
| EGM | 40/50 |
| GamePro | 16.5/20 |
| GamesMaster | 92% |
| HonestGamers | 9/10 |
| 96% | |
| Mean Machines | 91% |
| Mega Action | 94% |
| MegaTech | 92% |
| 97% | |
| Sega-16 | 9/10 |
Rocket Knight Adventures (ロケットナイトアドベンチャーズ Roketto Naito Adobenchāzu?) is a 1993 side-scrolling platformer video game developed and published by Konami for the Sega Genesis. The game was released in North America on August 5, 1993, in Japan on August 6, 1993, and in Europe in 1993. Rocket Knight Adventures was designed by Nobuya Nakazato, designer of several titles in the Contra series such as The Alien Wars, Hard Corps and Shattered Soldier. Its protagonist is Sparkster, an opossum knight who fights an army of robots and pigs, many of whom are piloting various mechanical vehicles. Sparkster is armed with a sword that can project energy over a short distance and a rocket pack that allows him to fly.
Gameplay is often a side scrolling platform, with linear runs through levels. The player is able to jump, attack with Sparkster's sword, either directly or by "shooting" energy forward when swung, or charge up their rocket pack and go flying in one of the 8 standard directions, depending of the direction the player presses (if no direction is pressed, Sparkster performs a stationary spinning attack).
Levels are occasionally switched up with alternate styles of gameplay. Some levels are horizontal scrolling shooters (akin to Gradius, often with in-level references to that game), while one level has the player controlling a large machine to duel with Axel Gear.
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