Kabuki Quantum Fighter

Infobox VG
title = Kabuki Quantum Fighter


caption = North American cover art
developer = Human Entertainment, Pack-In-Video
publisher = ^NA HAL America Inc.
designer = Hiroyuki Itoh
engine =
version =
released = vgrelease|NA=1991|JP=December 21, 1990|EU=February 20, 1992 [cite web | url = http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/data/587376.html| title = Release information | publisher = Game FAQs| date = | accessdate = 2008-09-24]
genre = Platform game
modes = Single-player
ratings =
platforms = Nintendo Entertainment System
media = Cartridge
requirements =
input = NES controllernihongo|"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.

ynopsis

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.

Gameplay

The field is generally side-scrolling, with a single room with a boss at the end of each level.

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.

Plot

In the far future, a virus has appeared in the Main Defense Computer of the planet Earth. The origin and nature of the virus is unknown. Scott O'Connor volunteers to undergo an experimental transfer technology that converts his brain into raw binary code. He takes on the image of a Kabuki dancer, since the computer recognizes his grandfather as one. The virus in the virtual world takes on properties of an actual virus-it leaves behind debris, mutant creatures, and parastite enivironments of a biological nature. At the final level, it is revealed that the virus is of alien origin, having been picked up by a lost Hyperion probe launched to a neighboring planet. O'Conner stops it before the virus can order the Hyperion to fire its laser weapons and destroy the human population.

Trivia

This game has gained a peculiar currency in popular culture, with oblique references in the TV show Lost, as well as the film Garden State.Fact|date=September 2008

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.

References

External links

*moby game|id=/kabuki-quantum-fighter|name="Kabuki Quantum Fighter"