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Sparkster

Sparkster
Sparkster North American SNES box art.jpg
North American SNES box art
Developer(s) Konami
Publisher(s) Konami
Director(s) Hideo Ueda
Composer(s) Kazuhiko Uehara
Masahiro Ikariko
Minako Matsuhira
Michiru Yamane
Akira Yamaoka
Platform(s) Super NES
Release
  • JP: September 15, 1994
  • NA: October 1994
  • EU: 1994
Genre(s) Platformer, scrolling shooter
Mode(s) Single-player

Sparkster (スパークスター Supākusutā?) is a side-scrolling platformer video game developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was directed by Hideo Ueda (Axelay) and was released in Japan on September 1994, in North America in October 1994, in Europe in 1994.

Sparkster is a different game from the Sega Genesis version despite having the same title in North America and Europe, which bore the full title of Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2, and has no plot continuity with the original Rocket Knight Adventures. However, the two games have the same soundtrack.

The eponymous main character is 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 games, with the most notable change being the addition of a short-distance rolling dash. One major difference is that the game's final level depends on the difficulty the player selected. On easy, the game culminates with battle against Axel Gear, but on normal, the story continues with Sparkster fighting the leader of the Wolves on the next level. On hard difficulty, the game continues beyond that, with the true final stage.


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