It’s almost five thirty and you’re coming home from school. There, someone is waiting for you with the snack. You leave your backpack on your bed, go back to the kitchen and grab your sandwich to go to the living room, sit on the floor and turn on your Mega Drive because you still have to finish this cartridge that is driving you crazy: Rocket Knight Adventures from Konami. Do you remember?
This image could be of a typical afternoon of any day in the first half of the 90s. The decade of Nintendo and SEGA consoles and the battle of the 16 bits. Even if at that time many heroes left their mark on us in the world of video games, Rocket Knightfrom Konami, was one of the most notable and now, what’s more, he has decided to return.
Rocket Knight is still what he was
The fact is that for several months we have known the intention of Konami (or what’s left of it) to revive the old hero from his Mega Drive and Super Nintendo cartridges. Although over the years it has arrived on many other machines like the PC, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 (apart from emulators). We are now facing the most ambitious compilation because it will include practically all the games released on the market.
The name chosen by those responsible for this title is Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-spark! and will include the three releases released in the 90s, the time of its true reign among fans of old 16-bit consoles. Concretely, it is Rocket Knight Adventures, SPARKSTER Rocket Knight Adventures Yes SPARK. All with its original appearance, with a 4:3 format screen, graphics intact but pixel-perfect and yes, some extras to remember
These extras have less to do with new phases or content and more to do with incidental glitches. This is the case of two new non-playable modes, a museum with multimedia content on the development and design of cartridges, a music player where you can listen to the original soundtrack, a saved game anytime and rewind function.
Attack the final boss whenever you want
The games of Rocket Knightthat of SPARK, are typical of the 90s in which at the end of a phase we faced a final boss who made things particularly complicated for us. That’s good Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-spark! will allow us to play directly with those final boss without having to go through the entire level, in a way they named as Boss attack.
Another of the notable news of this Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-spark! is that you already have it in the reservation phase and it will be officially put on sale soon June 11, both for PC and Nintendo Switch and PlayStation consoles. Strangely, at the moment there is no news of a possible launch on Xbox, although it is not excluded that in the coming weeks we will learn of plans to bring it also to machines Microsoft.
