Rocky Rodent

Rocky Rodent Nitro Punks: Might Heads
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Irem
Publisher(s)	Irem
Designer(s)	Tetsuya Ikawa
Composer(s)	Rikei Hirashima
Platform(s)	Super NES
Release date(s)	JP July 30, 1993 NA September 1993
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player
Media/distribution	8-megabit cartridge

Rocky Rodent is a video game for Super Nintendo Entertainment System, released in 1993. It is known as Nitro Punks: Might Heads (ニトロパンクス マイトヘッズ, Naitoropankusu Maitohezzu^?) in Japan.

Plot and gameplay

When Rocky begins eating at Pie Face Balboa's restaurant, he unintentionally eats an envelope with Balboa's protection money. As a result, mobsters take Balboa's daughter. Balboa asks Rocky to rescue his daughter, promising him an All-You-Can-Eat buffet for her return.

As Rocky Rodent, the player plays a Rodent who must use four various hairstyles to rescue the daughter of the owner of Rocky's favorite eatery. Rocky Rodent is a platform game with six levels with multiple stages, similar to a cross between Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Brothers. Text bubbles appear during cutscenes; making the game more like a comic book rather than a Saturday morning cartoon.

References

• Rocky Rodent at GameFAQs
• Rocky Rodent at MobyGames