Shatterhand (NES)

Shatterhand

Platform: NES Year: 1991 Developer: Natsume

Shatterhand is an action game with eight-direction scrolling. You control Shatterhand in his quest to find and defeat General Grover, leader of the Metal Command. Through the game you’ll encounter all kinds of mechanical and biomechanical creatures. Shatterhand’s primary weapon is his cybernetic fists and therefore most enemies must be defeated by punching them.

Additional help can be given from any of the eight hovering satellite robots, each of which has it’s own weapon that fires automatically when Shatterhand throws a punch. These satellite robots can be obtained by collecting combinations of alpha-beta letters that appear when you punch some of the white boxes that are scattered throughout each stage.

The game has seven stages. The first and the last must be played first and last respectively, but the five middle stages can be played in any order. The path to the final showdown with General Grover leads through a factory, a refinery, an anti-gravity research facility, a submarine, a burning subway, a filtration plant and finally to General Grover’s missile launch complex.

Screenshots

The title screen. Opening cutscene. Gameplay 1. Gameplay 2. Gameplay 3. The 1st boss.

Music

As given from a classic Natsume game, Shatterhand offers very awesome, intense and catchy music. The soundtrack was written by Iku Mizutani.

Recording

These recordings were made using foobar2000 with exporting to OGG (Vorbis) format.

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
01	Intro	Iku Mizutani	0:21		Download
02	Game Start	Iku Mizutani	0:08		Download
03	Area A	Iku Mizutani	2:32		Download
04	Boss	Iku Mizutani	1:02		Download
05	Area Clear	Iku Mizutani	0:07		Download
06	Stage Select	Iku Mizutani	0:39		Download
07	Area B	Iku Mizutani	1:28		Download
08	Area C	Iku Mizutani	2:16		Download
09	Area C, Area F (JP)	Iku Mizutani	2:24		Download
10	Area D	Iku Mizutani	2:13		Download
11	Area E, Area F	Iku Mizutani	1:45		Download
12	Area G	Iku Mizutani	2:09		Download
13	Ending	Iku Mizutani	3:13		Download
14	Ranking	Iku Mizutani	0:27		Download
15	Game Over	Iku Mizutani	0:15		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Manbow-J
• Recorder: IgoreshaZhu
• Game Credits:
  • Sound Program: Iku Mizutani
  • Music Composer: Iku Mizutani
  • Sound Effect: Hiroyuki Iwatsuki

(Source: Japan version; USA version; European version)

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Audio Devices

The game uses the 2A03. The game uses Iku Mizutani's sound driver.

Releases

Japan Title: 特救指令ソルブレイン (Super Rescue Solbrain) Platform: Famicom Released: 1991-10-21 Publisher: Angel     USA Title: Shatterhand Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System Released: 1991-12-?? Publisher: Jaleco     EU Title: Shatterhand Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System Released: 1992-11-19 Publisher: Jaleco

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatterhand - Wikipedia.
• mobygames.com/game/14056/shatterhand - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/587608-shatterhand - GameFAQs.