Nightshade (NES)

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Nightshade

Developer(s)	Beam Software
Publisher(s)	Ultra Games
Release date(s)	1991
Genre(s)	Adventure game
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	NES

Nightshade is an action/adventure video game released in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed by Beam Software and published by Ultra.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The game takes place in an urban city called Metro City. As the story unfolds, the city's local superhero named Vortex is outnumbered by gangs and killed. With the city's protector murdered, the crime grows rapidly. Soon enough the city's crimelords start fighting over control of the city, until a villain named Sutekh takes control, combining all the gangs into one. With the city completely overrun by Sutekh and the other crimelords, it is soon devoured in crime. A vigilante named Mark Gray (alias, Nightshade) decides to step up and take the law into his own hands, vowing to rid Metro City of crime.

The game is actually somewhat light in tone, and the ending gives credit to people for the "bad jokes".

[edit] Trivia

The game was meant to be Part 1 in a series, but no sequels were ever made.
The game combined graphic adventure game elements (i.e. wandering around and picking up objects to solve puzzles) with fighting sequences that required quick movements.