Bucky O'Hare (arcade game)

Bucky O'Hare

Japanese flyer
Developer(s) Konami
Publisher(s) Konami
Composer(s) Norio Hanzawa
Platform(s) Arcade
Release date(s) September 1992
Genre(s) Beat 'em up/Run and gun
Mode(s) Up to 4 players simultaneously
Cabinet Upright
Display Raster, standard resolution

Bucky O'Hare is an arcade game produced by Konami in 1992.

Gameplay

This video game is based on the cartoon television series Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars under license from Hasbro, Inc. While it is generally classified as a scrolling fighting game, utilizing a Final Fight-esque landscape, the player's character is also armed with a laser gun, adding in elements of a scrolling shooter. However, if the character is extremely close to an enemy, he will throw out his fists to attack - a precursor to the characters featured in Metal Slug, who use knives in close combat.

Much like the cartoon, Bucky O'Hare features colorful animation, and voice actors from the series were hired to participate in the game's cut scenes.

The player chooses from four protagonists: Bucky O'Hare, the heroic rabbit captain of the space ship Righteous Indignation; Jenny, an "Aldebaran cat" and telepath; Dead-Eye Duck, a four-armed mallard; and Blinky, a one-eyed android. As in the television series, the characters must stop the Toad Empire from invading extraterrestrial planets and enslaving their peoples; to do so they must shoot their way through an army of brainwashed toads to destroy their evil leader, a computer program known as "Komplex" and release the "Interplanetary Life Force."

The enemies, among them Al Negator, Toadborg, Total Terror Toad, a "Cyborg Spider", the various varieties of Toad Storm Troopers, the Toads' Air Marshall, and "Komplex-2-Go" who featured in the comic book and cartoon series continuities.

Soundtrack

Those music for Arcade Bucky 'O Hare were: Plant Warren, Climate Converter, Space River, Toad Star and Komplex was contain the CD Soundtrack Konami All-Stars 1993: Music Station of Dreams on December 24, 1992.

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