Knight Rider (NES)
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- For other games in the series, see Knight Rider.
Knight Rider is a first-person driving game developed by Pack-In-Video and published by Acclaim. The game was self-published by Pack-In-Video in its native Japan.
In the game, you play as Michael Knight controlling the Knight Industries Two-Thousand (known as KITT). Previously, Michael Knight was actually a top agent named Michael Long, until he was gunned down by a gang. Wilton Knight, founder of the Knight Foundation, revives Michael and has plastic surgery performed on him. Now, you are known as Michael Knight. Wilton Knight leaves the mission and KITT in your hands before he passes away. Now, Michael and KITT go out on missions given out by Devon, with Bonnie as KITT's lead mechanic.
The game takes place across sixteen stages across the continental United States. The game is played in a first-person perspective viewed from inside the cockpit of KITT. You drive throughout each level shooting bad guys and trying to reach the end of the stage before the time limit expires, you take too much damage, or before you run out of gas, whichever comes first. On the road are many vehicles; Blue cars are pedestrian vehicles that "conveniently" drive in front of you, red cars are enemies that can shoot projectiles at you, which KITT can dispatch with its weapons. There are yellow vehicles that can also be destroyed to earn powerups such as time and gas. Other powerups include giving the player missiles and lasers, as well as repairing damage to KITT. Similar to the show, when KITT is at max speed, it has the ability to jump, which proves useful against dispatching attack choppers. At the end of each stage, there is a boss vehicle that must be destroyed. The bosses include a large 18-wheeler, an attack chopper, as well as KARR, the evil equivalent to KITT. The manual explains that the identity of the enemies in the game is not known, but the bosses are known as "Terminators."
The game received mostly negative reviews from players and critics; they cited numerous problems such as the stages taking too long to complete, as well as the strict time limits given by the game. In addition, KITT's jump usually results in the player crashing due to the numerous twists and turns in each stage.
A Japan-only sequel was released by Pack-In-Video called Knight Rider Special.
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Music
Knight Rider has a minimal amount of music. Unfortunately, the opening theme from the TV show is not present here. There is only a single stage theme, as well as one boss theme. Since both are short tunes, they tend to get really annoying after playing for an extended period of time.
The music was written by Hiroshi Nishizawa.
Recording
| # | Title | Composer | Length | Listen | Download |
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| 01 | Title Screen | Hiroshi Nishizawa | 1:27 | Download | |
| 02 | Stage Theme | Hiroshi Nishizawa | 1:26 | Download | |
| 03 | Boss | Hiroshi Nishizawa | 0:36 | Download | |
| 04 | Goal | Hiroshi Nishizawa | 0:03 | Download | |
| 05 | Ending | Hiroshi Nishizawa | 1:00 | Download |
Credits
- Ripper: Unknown
- Recorder: Doommaster1994
- Game Credits:
- Not Credited Composer: Hiroshi Nishizawa
- Not Credited Programmer: Hiroshi Yamazaki
(Source: www16.atwiki.jp/gmclw/pages/38.html; Game lacks credits.)
Like many games by Pack-In-Video, the game lacks credits. Neither the North American or Japanese manuals contain a staff list. Atwiki.jp lists Hiroshi Nishizawa as the game's composer. Based on the formatting on the page, it appears they took his gameography from his website, but his website does not appear to list his game music works any longer.
The game uses the same sound driver as Elysion (FC), which credits Hiroshi Yamazaki for "Sound Program." While this credit could pertain to the person who coded the music into the sound driver, that game's composer, Kazuo Sawa, was known for programming his own music into the sound driver.
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