Kabuki Quantum Fighter

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Kabuki Quantum Fighter
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Human Entertainment, Pack-In-Video
Publisher(s)	^NA HAL America Inc.
Designer(s)	Hiroyuki Itoh
Platform(s)	Nintendo Entertainment System
Release date	1990
Genre(s)	Platform game
Mode(s)	Single player
Media	Cartridge

Kabuki Quantum Fighter (地獄極楽丸, Jigoku Gokuraku Maru^?) is a 1990 video game developed by Human Entertainment and published by the defunct American publishing arm of HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Players adopt the persona of Colonel Scott O'Connor, a military agent who has transferred his brain into raw binary code in order to combat a rogue program in the Main Defense Computer. When Colonel Scott O'Connor enters the system, his body forms the self-image of his ancestors which were Kabuki actors. Players use their long hair and chip based weaponry to attack enemies inside the computer.

Upon beating the game, a sound test menu is active with a two-frame animation of Scott under his Kabuki guise, bowing. He also states a message to watch for him in his next game, which never came to be.

[edit] Trivia

This game has gained a peculiar currency in popular culture, with oblique references in the TV shows Lost, Arrested Development, as well as the film Garden State.

In the background of the first person shooter, Soldier of Fortune, a character is briefly seen playing the game.

Similarly, the hairstyle sported by the main playable character enjoyed a small amount of popularity in fashionable districts of Tokyo during the early nineties.