Murdered by criminals, Detective Yokoda's body is retrieved by Professor Tani and taken to his laboratory. There, Tani performs an experiment that has failed seven times; Yokoda is the latest subject to have his life force transferred into an android body. For the first time, the experiment succeeds. Yokoda is reborn as the armor-skinned android 8 Man, able to dash at impossible speeds, as well as shape-shift into other people. He shifts himself into Yokoda, this time christening himself as "Hachiro Azuma". He keeps this identity a secret, known only to Tani and his police boss Chief Tanaka. Even his girlfriend Sachiko and friend Ichiro do not know he is an android. As 8-Man, Hachiro fights crime (even bringing his murderers to justice). He smoked "energy" cigarettes, to rejuvenate his powers, that he carried in a cigarette case on his belt.
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Unpretentious, grave, resolved and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- Arcade, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo MVS
- Developer
- Pallas
- Publisher
- SNK
- Released
- January 20, 1991
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- Side view
IGDB rating 5.3/10 from 5 ratings.
Pairings
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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