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I've been meaning to check this one out for awhile, and it did not disappoint! The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy is a 1990s action arcade game from Data East that involves all sorts of fun action and setpiece moments, including the ride down the canal featured in the GIF above.
It's a fast-moving and exciting game with a fairly generous life bar and some really cool actions (including swinging from aircraft and dodge-rolling past enemies!), but it's also peculiar because you don't have a gun and rely entirely on your whip. The boss battles are still really fun - that whip is a powerful tool the Belmont clan would be jealous of! - and the vibe is very much in between the excitement of Uncharted and the Nazi-fighting antics of Indiana Jones.
If you've missed it, give it a try!
Never played it in arcades, but it was one of the first games I played when I got M.A.M.E. set up, played it with my best friend. Game is an absolute blast, well done nonstop action.
Man that looks entertaining.
Damn straight it does!
I really think Naughty Dog used this game as one of the main cues for the Uncharted series.
The vita one right? Uncharted was the first one I thought of as well
I love the creativity of this time period, where developers were clearly limited by the technology but did some cool things anyway. As a kid I loved games that did this.
The game felt very mysterious to play back in the day, there simply wasn't anything with such a multi plane and erratic design, where you don't fully know what is going around, the way the enemies fired, what you can interact with and what not, the way, and so on.
Finding the name of the game later on was quite hard as well since it isn't really a wildly known game, and it was unemulated by anything when I first got into emulation. The only other game I ever had problem remembering was Dead Angle, but figuring that one was much quicker.
It doesn't help that the game's name is so generic and doesn't quite fit the action. It's a great game, but it's lacking that memorable quality in a name that makes it easy to seek out.
Fun game. Also try Boogie Wings
I'm a big fan of Boogie Wings! Also also the similar Rohga: Armor Force from the same period. Data East made some wildly creative games during this period.
Data east was absolutely on fire in this era. So underrated
Bro the 3D emulation you get out of this game puts some current games to shame... I'm gonna have to check this one out
I'm not sure why in screenshots, videos and GIFs the game looks so dark, because it feels quite vibrant when you're playing it. It's definitely a well-made pseudo-3D game, though. Another one that's similar from the same era is Taito's Riding Hero, where you ride hoverboards and beat up bad guys.