@TailB 1024 I have a problem with this game because everything is downgraded compared to Rocket knight adventures. I really loved RKA but I found Sparkster lazy.
@@Bloodreign1 Ouch! It's the best Sunset rider's version! It doesn't have the crappy dance synths like the Arcade and the SNES. I had to be on the internet for so long to read this but I respect that.
More like Konami's dungeon, chained to the wall, and only fed bread, and given water. It is chained next to Twinbee, Gradius, Goemon, Salamander, and Parodius.
I picked up Rocket Knight Adventures at a pawn shop as a kid on a whim. I remember seeing the 3(!)-page ad for it in game magazines from the 90s; it still slipped almost totally under the radar even though Konami was already well-established by 1993.
The first one, Rocket Knight Adventures, was supposed to be released on both platforms, but only got a Megadrive release. This sequel, however, did make it to both platforms (with a few notable differences, however.)
Not quite; while both the Genesis and Super Nintendo got a game called Sparkster, they are completely different games, with Sparkster on the SNES being a non-canon spinoff (as indicated with the discrepancies in the names), while Sparkster on the Genesis is the true sequel, as indicated by that game being subtitled Rocket Knight Adventures 2, albeit for some reason only on a splash title screen outside of Japan.
@@TheMGMfan I own both Sparksters along with Rocket Knight Adventures, so I am aware of this. Note that I said "with a few notable differences." I was alluding to what you just stated while trying to avoid being overly pedantic. While an eye for detail is always good, I find that in general, the more drawn out and trivial an explanation is (particularly in a TH-cam comment section), the more likely it is to be overlooked.
Looks good but this and the Mefadrives sequel both pale in comparison to the Megadrive original. Rocket knight adventures is one of my top five 16 bit games of all time.
I think it was a clever use of Mode 7; most games used it to either rotate the background, simulate sprite scaling, or create a faux-3D effect, so this is probably the more unique and impressive way someone used it.
I didn't like the Genesis version at all. It was just weird and they changed too much. The level design was bad, Sparkster no longer shot shockwaves from his sword and it just lacked the charm of RKA. Yet THAT is the canon sequel? SNES Sparkster however is a god tier game. And is honestly one of my Top 10 SNES titles.
WOW SUPER WOW I remember me and my older brother played this game alot on the super nes we even played the sega mega drive version as well.But I like both versions of this game but on the super nes version me and my brother only beaten the normal mode instead because I also know that the ending changes depending on which mode you playing on like in normal mode the ending have lioness's space base being destroy making it the bad ending on normal mode but on hard mode ending you actually go inside the warhead missile to face another final boss after destroying the core the missile explodes making it the good ending on hard mode like in this video.But on the other hand this game was my childhood so thank you for uploading this video the 90's sure had greats games before looking different but anyway thank you for uploading this video YEAH.
I just picked this game up at one of my local game stores! I love it! It was flicking $70 though... It's getting pricey man! I just played it for the second time and got almost to the last level until it said try the normal mode because I played on easy..! Man I was pissed! The game def takes practice and is definitely a hidden gem on the snes that I'm glad I picked up! It's very unique. I do not own the genesis version but I do have rocket knight adventures and that is also a great game!
I thought medium mode has all the bosses in Sparkster SNES... because Medium Mode shows more detail than Easy Mode does... and also don't ask me to play hard mode...
@@ericminervini7388 That's a lot for this version, I paid $25 for it off a forum, got it, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Lethal Enforcers 2 Genesis, and Kid Dracla FC combined $50 several years back. I got the Genesis version weeks before, for pretty much $25 as well, off another forum (RKA I paid a whopping $10 for, it too has shot up in price, but not as badly, but that one was off Ebay).
How much this game is so different from the Mega Drive version, I think this really is the sequel I would have wanted to RKA1 it just looks right and sounds right. I owned the MD version and that version would push the MD at certain parts of the game more so during boss' defeated This has different enemies but I think the MD version had the its own feature the corkscrew rocket drill move but this had the power slash coming off the sword like RKA1 had
Yeah, let's face it. This game is simply what happened when team "Rocket Knight Adventures" got their hands on some more robust development tools. The result? Pretty much the answer to the question , "What would a 'Rocket Knight Adventure' based game look like running on Capcom's CPS-1 arcade board?" Or atleast, this game is the closest thing the series has to it.
Seyron Abbott Oops..my mistake. o_O It looks like this was a different team from RKA. Just noticed that credit was given to a single member of the Rocket Knight Adventures team there at the end.
Actually its more akin to the konami arcade games, notably gradius. Its obvious the gradius III SNES team worked on this game with that pixel style and even uses sounds from gradius III
By "robust debelopment tools" you mean the SlowNes??... this game is cool, but nothing close to the original or even MD Sparkster. The bosses in this are lame to say at least....
I dont get the space boss, I pummeled and shot him so much, finally I got him to lose one arm, then he went apeshit and just came charging at me with rapid punches, I was dead in seconds. I totally dont understand what the game wants fro mme in that fight.
Actually, it's the same guy. Sparkster was in fact the protagonist in Rocket Knight Adventures, it's just that for whatever reason, they decided to use his name for the sequel's title.
Actually it is his own spin-off, there is no link between Rocket Knight Adventure 1/2 of the genesis but for some reason happen the be a better sequel than the second game on genesis.
That's actually a doable level, it's the shmup level with the boxing mechs, where you face Axel Gear, Sparkster's rival, that will give you the most fits. Yet that level contains the most kickass theme of the game.
I guess you finished the game. If not, enjoy. I wonder why they made the Megadrive version boring as f**k in everything. Rocket knight adventure wad so great that they freaked out making a sequel?
Vs stage 3's boss, If you hold up and continually fire the bird's laser you can knock off all the segments at once and blow them all up at the same time.. you also should also use the laser each time you hit one of those little bumps it brings you high enough to hit all segments at once. Basically just spam it lol
It's fascinating how the SNES version is superior to the Genesis Sparkster in terms of sound and visuals (look at the water reflection and the morphing rocks for example) but the Sega version seems to have gotten the better story and cinematic presentation. It's a shame Konami doesn't port these to modern hardware.
See, unlike western developers, Japanese devs tended to not make the same game between platforms, really forcing you to buy both consoles if you wanted to play games from those developers. I think the only game Konami for sure made that was the same between both platforms was Lethal Enforcers 1, and only because that was an arcade port. Nothing else from Konami was the same between both consoles.
The kingdom of Eginasem, a land inhabited by opossums is under attack by the Lioness's army of yellow dog soldiers which also kidnapped the Princess Flora Sparkster the Rocket Knight is out to combat this theat rescue the princess and save her kingdom from total destruction. His rival, Axel Gear always thought was related too find months before more quest from anything in space belong to stop him main villains.
Sparkster (SNES) All Bosses Boss 1 Gold Knight Boss 2 Dr. Crusher Boss 3 Caterpiller Bose 4 Wolf Heim Boss 5 The Worm Boss 6 Alex Gear Boss 7 Alex's Robot Boss 8 General Lioness Final Boss Missle Core
The A-list talent at Konami would do the SNES version while some shitty B-Team handled the Sega one. However the silver lining is that Konamis true A-team left the company to work as a 2nd party contractor for Sega. A little group called Treasure. You may have heard of them.
I personally felt the genesis version was a much more solid game, it did the job well and offered a fresh take. The music wad pretty good too, wouldnt call em b-team.
Robert S no harder than any other classic game you just gave to know the right attack and when you have Invincibility frames. once you have that it's easier than you think. :)
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Sure it isn't as good and creative as the original RKA on MegaDrive but this is still a very solid followup for the Super NES. It retains much of the speed and charm of the original.
If Konami had did another game in the vein of RKA, people would've bitched, because Konami would've done "more of the same". Once you do something unique and creative, kind of hard to follow up with something different for the series.
I didn't know this furry game existed in SNES. It's like a mix of legend of zelda, megaman x, rayman, sonic, king of dragons, gunbird, 1942, and a reverse ghouls n' ghosts (enemies get disrobed too) with firebrand
Completely different people. You can compare the credits, not to mention that Gunstar Heroes was released in 1993 while Sparkster for SNES was released in 1994
Except that on snes: 1.it's not funny 2.you don't feel like being on an adventure since the stages aren't linked and are just randomly put one after another 3.the shoot-them-up phase was slow and the giant robot fight incredibly lame (same for Sparkster genesis and its horrible mechas) 4.the Pig Star on RKA was just cooler, and it was also cooler that the final boss wasn't the King, and that the man-to-man battle with Axle Gear was almost at the end. Ok, the snes version is more beautiful (94), but that's it, I felt like it was just a lame version of RKA, a sad copy. Sparkster genesis isn't as good as RKA too, but i still prefer this one because it had its own ideas and because of how nervous is the gameplay.
dude, wtf, the only stage is random its the musical one, also the robot and shoot em up segments in rka always were kind of meh (Especially the robot) and the axle gear battle in rka its a joke because the stupid AI the only real problem whit this game its the rocket, its too fucking fast
@@xenotypos The stages make sense, and pretty much lead into one another. Even the musical stage, as you land in it after the mechanical bird throws you off at the end of stage 3. You just didn't pay any attention at all it seems. A lot of other games didn't have stages that linked to one another, and for those of us who grew up either long before (myself), or right around this era didn't give two shits, we just played these games, and loved them.
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP fine, i agree that graphics are better, but i thought controls were almost same that i didn't have any problems to control in both games. The reason why i don't like sparkster as much as RKA is that there are too many annoying traps in the most levels, which bothers me to enjoy high speed action game. In RKA i can just boost my rockets without risk except in some trap rooms, but in sperkster using rockets to progress levels makes me to lose health, constantly bound to opposite direction,or even get a insta-death. also the Continuity of rocket in sperkster is too short that spining is almost useless. in RKA spining was really useful especially in boss battles.
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP looks like you are out of topic and mismemorized. We are compareing RKA with snes version of sperkster, not the mediocore genesis version (which you can't charge the rocket manually) as well as other genesis games. Don't change the topic to useless 16-bit console war. It was over 20 years ago. It's true that The shoulder buttens in SNES version looks cool and useful to charge another rocket in mid air when i get used on it. But, it made the control quite complex that it felt like they were forgot their objective - making a mascot game of konami. Do you remember how simple and easy mario game's control was ?
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP i mean the control is simple, not the difficulty itself. I don't want to have a disscussion with you anymore. your answer is always "nintendo is better everything else is shit".
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP hell no, i like some great nintendo games as well. And i couldn't even owned any sega consoles at that time and only enjoyed them by emulators. I have a nes clone, nintendo ds i with some game cartridges now.
Honestly, and without giving offense to someone, but for me Rocket Knight/Sparkster is a much better character than the overrated Sonic, even his games seems much more dynamic and fun, not only because they are also fast action, but also because he is a more dynamic character, with better playable mechanics, and who also allows to have a better sense of exploration, something that does not happen with Sonic. I'm not saying that Sonic games are bad, no, but they simply can't offer me the sense of pleasure and comfort that Rocket Knight/Sparkster games do.
These games are vastly underappreciated and significantly better designed than any Sonic game. They offer a superior sense of speed without sacrificing solid play mechanics and level design. Although the original Sonic has an undeniable timeless character design so I won't knock that. Sparkster deserved better.
Awesome game on snes almost as good as rka, Sega version of the sequel was terrible compared to this, was almost like a master system game by comparison.
Konami did that a lot during the 16 bit erqa, maybe to try and get kids to have their parents buy both consoles, so that they could buy copies of both games for two different experiences. Hell they got me, but not until years later after the Genesis was cheaper to buy (I have had my SNES since 1991), and the games had gotten significantly cheaper, and before their prices came up again. The TMNT games, both belt scrollers, and fighting games, both Sunset Riders, both Lethal Ebnforcers 1 (and the Genesis sequel, as well as RKA), both Tiny Toons platformers, both Tiny Toons sports games, and both versions of Animaniacs.
Sparkster a knight blue hero like do then she got her kidnapped the princess more want my destiny just when as light been by villains very rocket moment rather find your save the world to rescue.
I've noticed a few accounts that type gibberish like this on WoL videos, guess they must be bots or something as all their posts seem like basic gibberish.
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The blast into space at 36:45 is an absolute masterpiece. That transition is so good, the way the music comes in.. it blows me away every time.
One of the SNES' most underrated platformers, IMO.
Sparkster for the Mega Drive was fun, but this looks so much more like the sequel to RKA
This game is like a mix between sonic, mega man x and king of dragons
Pretty much nailed it!
Sparkster American Cover
Developed (S) Konami
Platform (s) Super Nintendo
Mode (s) Single player
Princess Flora is the princess of the Kingdom of Eginasem. She is the daughter of King Eginasem and currently only featured in the Super Nintendo spin-off title Sparkster ™.
Generalissimo Lioness is the main villain leader of the Wolf Army. He's the main antagonist in Sparkster (SNES).
There's not much known about the history of Flora except that she's the daughter of King Eginasem, who rules over the Kingdom of Eginasem.
Stage 1 Lake Side Robo-Ape (Boss 1) Temper-Drilln 01:14
Stage 2 Iron Works Elevator Core (Boss 2) Junk Machine 06:43
Stage 3 Stampey Do! Wolfheim Rbobot (Boss 3) Robot Crawler 12:28
Stage 4 Attack-Sub (Boss 4) Wolfheim Tank 18:46
Stage 5 Ancient Ruins Octopus Robot (Boss 5) Fire Wyrm 24:26
Stage 6 Noisy Toys Raccoon Robot (Boss 6) Axel Gear 31:36
Stage 7 Return to Gear Floating Guard (Boss 7) Powered Gear
Final Stage 8 Orbital Fortress Wolf Mech (Boss 8) Generalissimo Lioness and (Final Boss) Missile Core 41:58
© 1994 Konami
All Rights Reserved.
Licensed by Nintendo
Saudadee dos tempo do Snes quem viveu essa época sabe como foi Boa era um trocar de fita
one of the best games I have ever played in my SNEs years!
By some bizarre coincidence, this was uploaded the very day I finally got my hands on a hard copy of this game.
YES!!! I FINALLY FOUND THIS GAME!! I searching for this game more than 10 years... i playing this game. i was 5 years old
i played already after i see this video, nostalgia
"I remember Sparkster! That blue hedgehog!"
When you heard that Konami intro, you knew you were up to something good!
Except for Sparkster on Megadrive.
Yeah but now...
@@brorianszk Eh, Sparkster on the Genesis is alright, it's Sunset Riders for that console that I have issues with.
@TailB 1024 I have a problem with this game because everything is downgraded compared to Rocket knight adventures. I really loved RKA but I found Sparkster lazy.
@@Bloodreign1 Ouch! It's the best Sunset rider's version! It doesn't have the crappy dance synths like the Arcade and the SNES.
I had to be on the internet for so long to read this but I respect that.
Konami "B-Team Syndrome".
Same thing happened to Sunset Riders and Turtles in Time. They aren't even the same games on the Genesis.
Love the soundtracks! Good old classic game, playing this with my cousin together in those days as kids.
Another amazing franchise locked away inside Konami's basement.
More like Konami's dungeon, chained to the wall, and only fed bread, and given water. It is chained next to Twinbee, Gradius, Goemon, Salamander, and Parodius.
I picked up Rocket Knight Adventures at a pawn shop as a kid on a whim. I remember seeing the 3(!)-page ad for it in game magazines from the 90s; it still slipped almost totally under the radar even though Konami was already well-established by 1993.
NOT ANYMORE!!! Rocket knight Adventures Resparked!
The first one, Rocket Knight Adventures, was supposed to be released on both platforms, but only got a Megadrive release. This sequel, however, did make it to both platforms (with a few notable differences, however.)
thevi0lat0r no the original was always Genesis exclusive.
Not quite; while both the Genesis and Super Nintendo got a game called Sparkster, they are completely different games, with Sparkster on the SNES being a non-canon spinoff (as indicated with the discrepancies in the names), while Sparkster on the Genesis is the true sequel, as indicated by that game being subtitled Rocket Knight Adventures 2, albeit for some reason only on a splash title screen outside of Japan.
@@TheMGMfan I own both Sparksters along with Rocket Knight Adventures, so I am aware of this. Note that I said "with a few notable differences." I was alluding to what you just stated while trying to avoid being overly pedantic.
While an eye for detail is always good, I find that in general, the more drawn out and trivial an explanation is (particularly in a TH-cam comment section), the more likely it is to be overlooked.
Looks good but this and the Mefadrives sequel both pale in comparison to the Megadrive original. Rocket knight adventures is one of my top five 16 bit games of all time.
@@TheMGMfan Should have released this one under the title Super Sparkster. Would have been clearer, like with Super Ghouls 'N' Ghosts.
This game is a masterpiece.
Jogava muito esse game na infância, muito bom!
Almost every Konami game on the snes was great, this was no exception
Almost every Konami game on Megadrive was great. This was an exception.
@@brorianszk lol
the gameplay, the story, the graphics, everything in this game let me addicted
Its a good game, the boxing match in space is hilarious..lol
42:05 the missile effect was really impressive. How did they make it?
I think it was a clever use of Mode 7; most games used it to either rotate the background, simulate sprite scaling, or create a faux-3D effect, so this is probably the more unique and impressive way someone used it.
@@TheMGMfan i don't think think this mode was used for this effect tbh, maybye another but not this one
the texture moves up at a curved angle and gets cut off, they then put a shiny transparent overlay
CGADSUB + CGRAM HDMA, basically a gradient with translucency over the missile layer
This game was ahead of its time. Just look at those rockets and space battle. Nowaday games will never have quality like these retro treasures.
I’m happy that this is Konami’s response to the animal mascot in the 90’s.
Well, this is weird. The final boss music is the same on Megadrive and SNES but the rest of the game is different,
37:07 my favorite level, the music is amazing.
Excelent game, bosses, soundtrack and effects!
Perhaps the best one in the serie. Snes music is very cool allot of the times.
One of my childhood games.
Always Sparkster escapes from her... Poor Sherry.
What's wrong with that guy, do he prefer Axel Gear?
Maybe he didn't want her getting hurt
Actually, she's called Princess Flora in this game; it takes place in its own continuity separate from the other games.
Sparkster wasn't royalty, so he ended up marrying a commoner, or that's what the 2010 game had us believe.
Level twos music has that mega Man X feel to it
Ah, childhood memories...
It feels like I'm watching a 2D Platinum game
Me recuerda mi infancia de aquellas épocas doradas .
i miss this game
Back when Konami did great games!
i love the level 2 music
the fucking space level boss is very fucking hard
cosmicfab
YES...."STEEL WORKS" is pure musical FIRE!!!
Jogo inesquecível.
They were going for a sonic meets mega man (with a sword).
крутая игра спасибо 👍👍
they should bring this game back as a aaa title, a trilogy series. itll get konami back
I really wish Treasure had made games for the SNES....
I didn't like the Genesis version at all. It was just weird and they changed too much. The level design was bad, Sparkster no longer shot shockwaves from his sword and it just lacked the charm of RKA. Yet THAT is the canon sequel?
SNES Sparkster however is a god tier game. And is honestly one of my Top 10 SNES titles.
Same here, the SNES version is way better imo. I still prefer Rocket Knight Adventures overall though
WOW SUPER WOW I remember me and my older brother played this game alot on the super nes we even played the sega mega drive version as well.But I like both versions of this game but on the super nes version me and my brother only beaten the normal mode instead because I also know that the ending changes depending on which mode you playing on like in normal mode the ending have lioness's space base being destroy making it the bad ending on normal mode but on hard mode ending you actually go inside the warhead missile to face another final boss after destroying the core the missile explodes making it the good ending on hard mode like in this video.But on the other hand this game was my childhood so thank you for uploading this video the 90's sure had greats games before looking different but anyway thank you for uploading this video YEAH.
I just picked this game up at one of my local game stores! I love it! It was flicking $70 though... It's getting pricey man! I just played it for the second time and got almost to the last level until it said try the normal mode because I played on easy..! Man I was pissed! The game def takes practice and is definitely a hidden gem on the snes that I'm glad I picked up! It's very unique. I do not own the genesis version but I do have rocket knight adventures and that is also a great game!
+Eric Minervini Actually you need to complet it at hard to see all the boss
AFFIRMATIVE
I thought medium mode has all the bosses in Sparkster SNES... because Medium Mode shows more detail than Easy Mode does... and also don't ask me to play hard mode...
@@ericminervini7388 That's a lot for this version, I paid $25 for it off a forum, got it, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Lethal Enforcers 2 Genesis, and Kid Dracla FC combined $50 several years back. I got the Genesis version weeks before, for pretty much $25 as well, off another forum (RKA I paid a whopping $10 for, it too has shot up in price, but not as badly, but that one was off Ebay).
Damn boi you dirt nasty at Ole snes games! Here after watching zool ❤
How much this game is so different from the Mega Drive version, I think this really is the sequel I would have wanted to RKA1 it just looks right and sounds right. I owned the MD version and that version would push the MD at certain parts of the game more so during boss' defeated
This has different enemies but I think the MD version had the its own feature the corkscrew rocket drill move but this had the power slash coming off the sword like RKA1 had
Juegaso de super Nintendo y todavía lo estoy jugando ❤🤗✌
Yeah, let's face it. This game is simply what happened when team "Rocket Knight Adventures" got their hands on some more robust development tools.
The result?
Pretty much the answer to the question , "What would a 'Rocket Knight Adventure' based game look like running on Capcom's CPS-1 arcade board?" Or atleast, this game is the closest thing the series has to it.
Seyron Abbott
Oops..my mistake. o_O
It looks like this was a different team from RKA. Just noticed that credit was given to a single member of the Rocket Knight Adventures team there at the end.
a way inferior game, bot Sparksters!
Actually its more akin to the konami arcade games, notably gradius. Its obvious the gradius III SNES team worked on this game with that pixel style and even uses sounds from gradius III
By "robust debelopment tools" you mean the SlowNes??... this game is cool, but nothing close to the original or even MD Sparkster. The bosses in this are lame to say at least....
wow. You'd have to be CRAZY GOOD to beat this game on CRAZY HARD mode
36:50 Robotnik's on vacation it seems. :D
lol
I thought the same hahaaha
He decided it would be fun to instead of turning random animals into robots, he would shoot a possum into space.
I dont get the space boss, I pummeled and shot him so much, finally I got him to lose one arm, then he went apeshit and just came charging at me with rapid punches, I was dead in seconds. I totally dont understand what the game wants fro mme in that fight.
the whole fight is terrible
Should have named this game Michael Bay.
12:60 Most today games cant make you FEEL Speed like this
Actually, it's the same guy. Sparkster was in fact the protagonist in Rocket Knight Adventures, it's just that for whatever reason, they decided to use his name for the sequel's title.
Actually it is his own spin-off, there is no link between Rocket Knight Adventure 1/2 of the genesis but for some reason happen the be a better sequel than the second game on genesis.
Sparkster, The Opossum Rocket Knight Is Here! Sparkster The Video Game For Your Super Nintendo Entertainment System From Konami!
I've never had the enjoyment of playing this game, but watching level 3...I would have noped the hell out. jeebus.
That's actually a doable level, it's the shmup level with the boxing mechs, where you face Axel Gear, Sparkster's rival, that will give you the most fits. Yet that level contains the most kickass theme of the game.
This game is cool I'm playing it now 👍😁
I guess you finished the game. If not, enjoy.
I wonder why they made the Megadrive version boring as f**k in everything. Rocket knight adventure wad so great that they freaked out making a sequel?
My old Memories * ___ *
Vs stage 3's boss, If you hold up and continually fire the bird's laser you can knock off all the segments at once and blow them all up at the same time.. you also should also use the laser each time you hit one of those little bumps it brings you high enough to hit all segments at once. Basically just spam it lol
Very nice
SPARKSTER DID IT HE DESTROYED THE MISSLE
CORE I WONDER WHO'S
INSIDE THAT MISSLE
CORE
How did he survive atmospheric re-entry?
It's fascinating how the SNES version is superior to the Genesis Sparkster in terms of sound and visuals (look at the water reflection and the morphing rocks for example) but the Sega version seems to have gotten the better story and cinematic presentation. It's a shame Konami doesn't port these to modern hardware.
See, unlike western developers, Japanese devs tended to not make the same game between platforms, really forcing you to buy both consoles if you wanted to play games from those developers. I think the only game Konami for sure made that was the same between both platforms was Lethal Enforcers 1, and only because that was an arcade port. Nothing else from Konami was the same between both consoles.
The kingdom of Eginasem, a land inhabited by opossums is under attack by the Lioness's army of yellow dog soldiers which also kidnapped the Princess Flora Sparkster the Rocket Knight is out to combat this theat rescue the princess and save her kingdom from total destruction. His rival, Axel Gear always thought was related too find months before more quest from anything in space belong to stop him main villains.
back when konami was good or whatever im just here for the 3d missiles
Sparkster (SNES)
All Bosses
Boss 1 Gold Knight
Boss 2 Dr. Crusher
Boss 3 Caterpiller
Bose 4 Wolf Heim
Boss 5 The Worm
Boss 6 Alex Gear
Boss 7 Alex's Robot
Boss 8 General Lioness
Final Boss Missle Core
hpw do you punch the space boss?? I'm using an emulator with a xbox 360 controller and can't seem to do anything other than fire and shoot at him.
It was with the shoulder buttons on the SNES. L and R.
The A-list talent at Konami would do the SNES version while some shitty B-Team handled the Sega one.
However the silver lining is that Konamis true A-team left the company to work as a 2nd party contractor for Sega. A little group called Treasure. You may have heard of them.
I personally felt the genesis version was a much more solid game, it did the job well and offered a fresh take. The music wad pretty good too, wouldnt call em b-team.
Earnest Evans and Rocket Knight had a baby.
This game is too fucking hard!!!!!!
ADI Domi Yes with save state everything is simple...
Robert S no harder than any other classic game you just gave to know the right attack and when you have Invincibility frames. once you have that it's easier than you think. :)
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TH-cam convert 60fps videos to 30 fps but they do it in an extremely shitty way. Could you convert your videos yourself to 30fps by blending odd and even frames so that it still looks smooth before uploading? Thanks a lot :)
Noticed that too
Sure it isn't as good and creative as the original RKA on MegaDrive but this is still a very solid followup for the Super NES. It retains much of the speed and charm of the original.
If Konami had did another game in the vein of RKA, people would've bitched, because Konami would've done "more of the same". Once you do something unique and creative, kind of hard to follow up with something different for the series.
I didn't know this furry game existed in SNES. It's like a mix of legend of zelda, megaman x, rayman, sonic, king of dragons, gunbird, 1942, and a reverse ghouls n' ghosts (enemies get disrobed too) with firebrand
Completely different people. You can compare the credits, not to mention that Gunstar Heroes was released in 1993 while Sparkster for SNES was released in 1994
Konami still had plenty of talent in 94, even after guys left the company to found Treasure.
parece com o Ratchat da série Ratchet & Clank :v
This is the same as RKA, except Wolves. The Wolf king is even wearing Devotindos' suit. Final boss is Wolfputer., just like Pigputer in the original.
Except that on snes: 1.it's not funny 2.you don't feel like being on an adventure since the stages aren't linked and are just randomly put one after another 3.the shoot-them-up phase was slow and the giant robot fight incredibly lame (same for Sparkster genesis and its horrible mechas) 4.the Pig Star on RKA was just cooler, and it was also cooler that the final boss wasn't the King, and that the man-to-man battle with Axle Gear was almost at the end.
Ok, the snes version is more beautiful (94), but that's it, I felt like it was just a lame version of RKA, a sad copy. Sparkster genesis isn't as good as RKA too, but i still prefer this one because it had its own ideas and because of how nervous is the gameplay.
dude, wtf, the only stage is random its the musical one, also the robot and shoot em up segments in rka always were kind of meh (Especially the robot) and the axle gear battle in rka its a joke because the stupid AI
the only real problem whit this game its the rocket, its too fucking fast
maybe its the scrolling?? but my point its, its very difficult to react when you use the rocket
Red Gem God ironically I finish the game in crazy hard yesterday
@@xenotypos The stages make sense, and pretty much lead into one another. Even the musical stage, as you land in it after the mechanical bird throws you off at the end of stage 3. You just didn't pay any attention at all it seems. A lot of other games didn't have stages that linked to one another, and for those of us who grew up either long before (myself), or right around this era didn't give two shits, we just played these games, and loved them.
#sparksterforsmash
love this game when i was 6.
Me too.
what happened to the genesis ver? It could it looked better than what it looked,look at rocket knight on gen lol
My old memories
it always felt weird to die and cut striaght to black both audio and video wise :(
Rocket knight adventure music is much better
@Zesanactor Over-5 no
@Zesanactor Over-5 No
It's weird out the inferior MegaDrive/Genesis version was the one that was rendered canonical by Konami.
The Megadrive original game was far better than the Sparkster sequels anyway.
25:17 You were probably getting frustrated.
Rocket Knight adventures & Sparkster
You have to mention Sparkster on SNES because on Megadrive it sucked.
Took me years to find this, always thought this was a Sonic game. Actually I remember Shadow being the piano playing boss.
better than genesis sparkster, but still not as good as rocket knight adventures.
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP please, just tell the reason why it's better so i can agree with your opinion.
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP fine, i agree that graphics are better, but i thought controls were almost same that i didn't have any problems to control in both games.
The reason why i don't like sparkster as much as RKA is that there are too many annoying traps in the most levels, which bothers me to enjoy high speed action game.
In RKA i can just boost my rockets without risk except in some trap rooms, but in sperkster using rockets to progress levels makes me to lose health, constantly bound to opposite direction,or even get a insta-death.
also the Continuity of rocket in sperkster is too short that spining is almost useless.
in RKA spining was really useful especially in boss battles.
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP looks like you are out of topic and mismemorized.
We are compareing RKA with snes version of sperkster, not the mediocore genesis version (which you can't charge the rocket manually) as well as other genesis games. Don't change the topic to useless 16-bit console war. It was over 20 years ago.
It's true that The shoulder buttens in SNES version looks cool and useful to charge another rocket in mid air when i get used on it.
But, it made the control quite complex that it felt like they were forgot their objective - making a mascot game of konami.
Do you remember how simple and easy mario game's control was ?
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP i mean the control is simple, not the difficulty itself.
I don't want to have a disscussion with you anymore.
your answer is always "nintendo is better everything else is shit".
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP hell no, i like some great nintendo games as well.
And i couldn't even owned any sega consoles at that time and only enjoyed them by emulators.
I have a nes clone, nintendo ds i with some game cartridges now.
The space boss is a pain
13:04 YEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Ride em Cowboy!
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HOW TALL IS THAT MOUNTAIN?! O_O;
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Cool.
Honestly, and without giving offense to someone, but for me Rocket Knight/Sparkster is a much better character than the overrated Sonic, even his games seems much more dynamic and fun, not only because they are also fast action, but also because he is a more dynamic character, with better playable mechanics, and who also allows to have a better sense of exploration, something that does not happen with Sonic. I'm not saying that Sonic games are bad, no, but they simply can't offer me the sense of pleasure and comfort that Rocket Knight/Sparkster games do.
These games are vastly underappreciated and significantly better designed than any Sonic game. They offer a superior sense of speed without sacrificing solid play mechanics and level design. Although the original Sonic has an undeniable timeless character design so I won't knock that. Sparkster deserved better.
Awesome game on snes almost as good as rka, Sega version of the sequel was terrible compared to this, was almost like a master system game by comparison.
Puissant
rapide
Speed
Ouais.
Great game and all but holy shit, fuck that mech battle in space. That just felt like pure like luck to even beat.
KONAMI'S SPARKSTER 30TH ANNIVERSARY 1994-2024!
Why is this different from the gnes version??
Konami did that a lot during the 16 bit erqa, maybe to try and get kids to have their parents buy both consoles, so that they could buy copies of both games for two different experiences. Hell they got me, but not until years later after the Genesis was cheaper to buy (I have had my SNES since 1991), and the games had gotten significantly cheaper, and before their prices came up again. The TMNT games, both belt scrollers, and fighting games, both Sunset Riders, both Lethal Ebnforcers 1 (and the Genesis sequel, as well as RKA), both Tiny Toons platformers, both Tiny Toons sports games, and both versions of Animaniacs.
im confused this not the game i remember from snes
its like Sonic but with actual gameplay.
Is this like a sequel or prequel?
You mean from the genesis game?
Side story to the series.
Sparkster a knight blue hero like do then she got her kidnapped the princess more want my destiny just when as light been by villains very rocket moment rather find your save the world to rescue.
I've noticed a few accounts that type gibberish like this on WoL videos, guess they must be bots or something as all their posts seem like basic gibberish.