One of the best games ever made for the Nintendo Entertainment System was Capcom's Bionic Commando. Taking control of "Spencer", a soldier with an grappling bionic arm, you fought your way through "Badds" (renamed from Nazis) to rescue Super Joe (the hero of the Capcom classic Commando) and assassinate Master-D (Hitler) . As a platformer, the game was unique in that the character could not jump -- to ascend vertically or cross ledges and chasms, Spencer had to use his bionic arm to grapple and swing himself to the other side. The game, while being very popular in the United States and Europe, wasn't much of a success in Japan, so no sequels were ever made for the game. After almost 20 years of letting this license languish, Capcom set out remaking the game as a XBox Live and PSN game, and the result is Bionic Commando Rearmed, a retro-styled updating of the classic NES game. At ComicCon this year, they premiered the anime-style trailer for the game, which is a parody of anime openings of that era:
The normal trailer makes me yearn for a system to play this on:
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