Silver Surfer (video game)
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Silver Surfer is a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Software Creations Limited and released by Arcadia Systems, Inc. in November 1990 in the United States. There have been no known releases in other regions.
[edit] Gameplay
In Silver Surfer, the player controls the Marvel Comics comic book hero Silver Surfer through various levels that rotate between a side-scrolling and an overhead perspective.
The player-controlled Silver Surfer flies around levels on a cosmic surf board. Touching the scenery or getting hit once by any of the enemies results in the character's death. This makes the game incredibly difficult as each level has a great deal of encroaching scenenry and choatic movement of enemies and projectiles. Each stage is broken up into three different levels.
The Silver Surfer is armed only with laser beams that shoot out of his hands, and the player can collect icons that allow him to shoot up to three laser breams at once. At the end of each level the Silver Surfer battles a super-villain from the comic book series. After completing the first set of levels, Galactus appears and sent the character on a final mission into the Magic Domain to collect a Cosmic Device from a villain, whose identity is less than clear. Many video game reviewers have labeled the final boss as being Galactus, while others have thought that it might be the Beyonder character from the Marvel Secret Wars saga. However, the picture before each Magic Domain depicts Mister Sinister.
While the game is next to impossible to defeat, it does have a password feature that allows such upgrades as invincibility. The game has cut-scenes between the levels to move the story line ahead, and allows the player to pick the levels in any order, similar to the Mega Man games.
Additionally, Silver Surfer's musical soundtrack is hailed by many as one of the most technically advanced and stylistically mature ever to appear on the system.
