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Adventures of Rad Gravity, The
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Release date Europe |
1990 |
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6
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Number of Reviews |
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Kakos
Listen to me, Rad Gravity! Listen to Kakos, last of the Compuminds! Listen
before all is lost!
Long, long ago, your ancestors on the world of Quark developed galactic
travel to an art. They found many wondrous worlds as they soared among the
stars. And over the centuries, they colonized nine worlds in three star-
systems! They forged the United Planets!
The United Planets were held together across the light-years by a network of
three unification Compuminds, which communicated instantaneously on the star-
warp uplink! I, Kakos, was the Compumind here on Quark! But the United Planets
looked for possible threats to their existence only from the worlds beyond the
union! Over time, we forgot that evil is everywhere!
A wizard arose from among the Quarkians! Agathos was born a man, but he opened
himself to the interstellar magic, and he mutated! .. Mutated to become a
living brain!
And in his cosmic madness, he thought himself beyond normal people.. beyond
normal alien lifeforms.. beyond even the Compuminds! And he destroyed the
Union!
He shut down the Compumind network, cutting the instantaneous links between
the worlds! He placed a guardian before each of the far Compuminds, and buried
me.. forever, he thought!.. in a cave! He laughed as the planets became
isolated, and fell into decay!
Recently, I was discovered and reactivated! And now I have devised the means
of reactivating my fellow Compuminds, to revive the Union! You are the means!
Union president
You're the most promising of our space cadets, Rad! We need to pilot our last
remaining ship, to find the nine planets, the three unification Compuminds..
Rad
Find?
Union president
They've been lost for generations, Rad! When the network was shut down, Kakos
lost all data concerning them! Through heroic efforts, it has recovered the
coordinates of one, solitary world in the nearest alien solar system! That's
where you'll begin!
Kakos
I will be installed on board your ship! Once you and I reach the first world,
you must search the world for a Compumind.. since I do not know which worlds
boasted Compuminds.. and you must search for clues to help us find the eight
other worlds! I will process your data as best I can, but you are the one who
must master the worlds if we are to reconnect the network and restore the
United Planets!
Union president
Will you do it, Rad? The magnitude of the task is almost inconceivable-- but
so is the magnitude of the reward! Will you do it?
Rad
I will!
Narration
And so, Rad Gravity begins the quest that will carry him far beyond the life
he's known thus far-- to the strange, twisted world of Cyberia, where killer
robots guard information that is vital to his mission!
But Cyberia is a beacon of hope compared to the rotting carcass of Effluvia,
where the garbage of the universe does not go to die!
From the lands of the decadent future it's too short a trip to the land where
dinosaurs still walk and fire ants nip your toes - Sauria!
Then it's on to the old-fashioned beauty of the cloud city hovering high above
verdant Vernia! Cool and serene, it's the absolute opposite of the down-and-dirty
antics of the gnomes who plague passers-by on Odar!
And between the worlds are the shifting terrors of the asteroid belt, where
the only means of avoiding the constantly swirling stones is the principle of
action and reaction! To move in one direction, a space cadet must fire his
weapon in the other direction, to push him along!
But the weirdest world of all awaits where gravity has gone wild-- on the
upside down sphere of Turvia! And this is but a fraction of the fate to be
found in-- The Adventures of Rad Gravity!
The Game Review has been written by Simon (16/12/2004).
(sizewo_a_nospam_t_yahoo_dot_com)
Well let me say that this game is probably one of the best on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Now when I was younger I played a LOT of games at home, but compared to todays superior sound and graphics quality most of those games seem somewhat worthless.
Most games in general aren't very good and if they are its for their action, so it makes little sense to go back and play most of the old games. But oddly enough this game is both fun and has a great plot, the story of a battle that waged across 9 planets and involved a deceptive robot named Kakos.
If it interests anyone, Agathos and Kakos are Greek words meaning "good" and "evil" respectively, which gives you a hint as to how the story itself turns out in the end. It's too bad there was no book written that was based on this game or vice versa I would like to read it.
This is probably the only action game on the NES that would really be worth playing besidse. Castlevania, Mario, and Double Dragon/Battletoads are good. Most of the great NES games are RPGs like Final Fantasy.
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