Sparkster is the ultimate hero. Not saving the princess for wealth or fame, he doesn't even stay to get showered in appreciation. He just gets the job done, then leaves. I salute thee, brave Rocket Knight. You're the rocket-propelled hero the kingdom of Eginasem needs!
Fun fact: The giant centipede boss is actually a giant spider, because in the beginning of the first level, you can see the castle and on that castle is a giant spider which is the level boss.
@@Alysa-Aiday sonic because he's an animal and MM because he has blue armor which is just surface level shit at best it's also funny because sparkster is original as hell
I think Sparkster is really cute, and the fact that he can kick my ass left and right if he wanted to somehow makes him even more adorable to me. Go figure
i mean maybe kids would find some of them kinda disturbing but this is nothing compared to some other games at the time, ones with some pretty detailed flesh-horror sprites and absurd bosses
Raphael Tobar I can't say I was scared at that age even though my older brother was playing it. I will say it was screaming I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU with its expression
@@Masamune- He does remind me of that Lava Reef boss. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Sonic and Sparkster and Mega Man= blue lives matter
It's really weird. Sitting this close to the sprites in this definition, I can finally see that captain fleagle has blood dripping from his snout when you fight his mech.
He’s supposed to look beat up from your earlier battle with him. I remember his name from the instruction book. Man I rented this constantly in the 90’s
There's a way easier way to do the first boss by just rocketing behind him from the start. He can't attack backwards, if you timed it right he won't backtrack onto you, and its bombs can't hit you. Also a much faster way to do the serpent (which I think isn't more than a mini-boss, like the first one, the first actual boss is the third boss in this video), which requires you to know where the serpent will appear (its scripted) and stand ontop of its head wailing your sword at it, if done right the serpent will die even before the first jump. Faster way to do the train: on the first phase jump on his face, attack twice with your sword and jump, rince and repeat, it dies before it reaches the end the first time. Second phase, evade the hands by timing your attacks when they come at you, you will do damage and receive none, standing on the right hand corner when he does the hand target attack just hack away and none of the attacks will hit you.Third phase is pretty much the video. On the Gigantic Fish, you can just jump twice when the platforms are moving and then just run on the oposite direction of the fish and you won't fall as long as you time right the end of the phase. This video actually shows all bosses and mini-bosses, since the only actual bosses are the centipede machine, Train Tank, Gigantic Mechanical Fish, Captain Fleagle and his Giant Junkbot, The Pig Robot Fight, Mothership, Emperor, Axl, and the Pig Star core, the rest is mini bosses.
@@rachaelchampion6195 Every boss that doesn't have the well-known major boss theme. They either have the level's theme song or the mini-boss theme song instead
@@lucianocastrogiovanni2879 "Nintendo rip off"? Konami made both Rocket Knight Adventures *and* Sparkster. They had every right to reuse gameplay elements.
In RK2 or Sparkster as it's called you can see the console struggles with the game. During boss explosions the game slows down to a crawl especially during the boss that looks like a stick man
@@mekaboo318 No dude. Mother 2 (Earthbound) didn't even come out before Rocket Knight Adventure. Rocket Knight Adventure came out in 1993, while Earthbound came out in 1994 and Mother 3 in 2006 (on the GBA).
How can I beat the Giant Pig Mech of Axel Gear without being hit? Can someone give me a strategy? Please help me, I lose something as 20 lives there and I can't go further.
Stefano Riva Wait for him to approach you then either counter-attack or try to get the drop on him. Being lower seems to give your punches more range, so use that to your advantage. Don't approach him yourself as he will just swing at you while you move into range. Good luck!
Thank you Analytic31! I already managed to beat him (and the game, because he was the hardest boss of all imho) some weeks ago. I confirm what you say about staying low and waiting for his move.
Actually beat this one on emulator a few years back. Not sure how... watching this again I remember how fucking hard this game is. That magic disappearing ship? Took me a lot cuss words to get through that one...
Will never forget: "PIG"-Core (lol! Sorry I know you already named him Pulsating Plasma Blaster, but I have habits form a certain shooter to just call him "PIG-core") and how I double-KO'd myself with Axel Gear! X'D
Played this on emulator a couple years back and love it, the music slaps. I mostly grew up playing Sparkster 2. Fun fact: This game was released when I was born.
Boss 01 01:24 Big Spider Boss 02 03:57 Train Tank Boss 03 07:38 Blink Gigantic Mechanical Fish Boss 04 09:58 Giant Captain Fleagle and His Boss 05 12:30 Axle Gear and His Giant Pig Mech Boss 06 13:46 Mothership Final Boss 21:03 Mr. The Pig Star Core
![[TAS] Genesis Rocket Knight Adventures by upthorn in 27:18.13](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/j7_f8hU8CHM/mqdefault.jpg)
Sparkster is the ultimate hero. Not saving the princess for wealth or fame, he doesn't even stay to get showered in appreciation. He just gets the job done, then leaves.
I salute thee, brave Rocket Knight. You're the rocket-propelled hero the kingdom of Eginasem needs!
He learned from his father
He knows he could've banged her tho
@@MegaWumba I thought he did, and that's sparksters parents
Sean Miceli: Nope, Sparkster married a commoner and helped raise a family. He never touched the princess at all.
@@Bloodreign1 Never touched the princess? Why not? That's the ultimate prize!
The final boss theme is insane I love it
There is no denying - this game has some of the best boss music the Genesis has to offer.
Fun fact: this is one of the first games Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame ever worked on.
Yeah, I saw him in the credits. :)
Talk about a *major* contrast!
And Michiru Yamane, who did a buuuunch of iconic Castlevania stuff after this.
Wow, I never knew that!
Someone who made a horror game made made a cute game
I wish Konami still made games like this.
THIS GAME IS SO FKING GOOD. I JUST BEAT THE GAME. PROUD MOMENT.
Donkey Kong Country 3 Boss Music was pretty good.
Fun fact: The giant centipede boss is actually a giant spider, because in the beginning of the first level, you can see the castle and on that castle is a giant spider which is the level boss.
Rocket Knight is the fucking shit. By far one of my favorite games ever.
Feels like a combination between sonic and megaman.
Funny I was literally thinking the Exact same thing lol
What elements from what games are where?
@@Alysa-Aiday sonic because he's an animal and MM because he has blue armor which is just surface level shit at best it's also funny because sparkster is original as hell
Agreed, and yet RKA took those two elements and added so much more. A complete classic.
Some of the boss themes halfway sound like Megaman
Now this game has creative bosses, and the game is fantastic for it.
The Axel fight were he blows up the ship to suck you into outer space was especially creative.
Am I the only one that thinks that this game is cute on the levels but the bosses are sometimes really creepy?
same here!
I think Sparkster is really cute, and the fact that he can kick my ass left and right if he wanted to somehow makes him even more adorable to me. Go figure
i mean maybe kids would find some of them kinda disturbing but this is nothing compared to some other games at the time, ones with some pretty detailed flesh-horror sprites and absurd bosses
Well the people who made this game are the same people who made the Contra games, so it's not surprising.
@@cherrycheetos but I'm pretty sure the Axel Gear boss fight isn't that bad. it's epic.
Brings back a lot of memories from my childhood. Excellent plays!
I swear Genesis had the some of the most unique bosses with hilarious limb animations
Alot of these old games had some sweet boss music
I Second!!
@@Alysa-Aiday I third! Konami always made the best VG music, alongside Capcom.
still the best boss fight music ever in the history of mankind
Grimsikk I agree! I listen to the main boss theme when fighting bosses in games like terraria.
Yes!!!
It was a precursor to my later musical tastes for sure
What about Nasty Gatekeeper in Dynamite Headdy??
Genesis games in general had great boss music
4:00 enter Best Boss Ever.
❤
Axle was such a great antagonist
The Giant Pig Mech chase near the end of the game was really scary for me as a kid. Still the greatest game I've played!!
Raphael Tobar I can't say I was scared at that age even though my older brother was playing it. I will say it was screaming I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU with its expression
Lol that shit was intense
Yes! Against the other knight Axel, that fight was sweaty as a kid.
I loved this game. So many memories.
13:05 "NOW IT'S PAYBACK TIME!!!
*piggy bank joke*
@@smallvillager8807: While I agree it's a piggy bank joke, what IS it payback time for???
As a kid there was an alligator whack-a-mole esque game,that would say that.
19:00 That boss acts like the ice area boss from sonic mania. And hitting it will make it be stunned and tilt back like that one.
Ah, heavy shinobi
11:26 wow, this is some gradius/salamander stuff going on.
But anyway, I definitely want to play this game right now. I liked that a lot.
whoever designed this, designed Contra Hardcorps ( i think)
similar boss art and soundtrack :P
i love when games have original awesome design.
Konami made both games. So your assumption is correct.
@@amarmehta01 this, Contra Hard Corps and Castlevania Bloodlines all share a distinct style graphically and musically
I think this is where my childhood anxiety came from
One of the best games growing up :')
This was my second game ever . I love it
My second Sega Genesis game, my first was Revenge of Shinobi. Loved them both!
13:46 This is the exact same boss in Konami's _Bucky O'Hare_ for the NES. The second to last boss, that is!
Gigantic Mechanical fish is just that Robotnik fight in the fire world of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. They're nearly EXACTLY the same.
ShadeDebug you're meaning in the Lava Reef zone from Sonic and Knuckles? You only get to fight him if you're playing as sonic iirc
@@Masamune- He does remind me of that Lava Reef boss. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Sonic and Sparkster and Mega Man= blue lives matter
OMG the train boss gave me SO much grief when I was kid!
11:25 'DESTROY THE CORE.'
I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught the Gradius reference.
I think this game needs an 80s styled TV series.
Hey Mister Carter, CEO of Doodleworks, how does it feel to be the most correct person on this planet?
"Pulsating Plasma Blaster" a.k.a. "Let's throw in a Gradius reference!"
And why not? Its Konami!
Amazing bosses, so far I have reached the train boss.
Have you beaten the game?
The Train Tank must be my favorite boss or something, because about a year, or just over a year ago, I actually dreamed about it
Man sega produced some bosses that were determined to end you back in the day
It's really weird. Sitting this close to the sprites in this definition, I can finally see that captain fleagle has blood dripping from his snout when you fight his mech.
Rota Abyssian Who the hell is captain fleagle? The other knight?
Analytic31 the airship captain ( pig in green)
He’s supposed to look beat up from your earlier battle with him. I remember his name from the instruction book. Man I rented this constantly in the 90’s
What do you expect? Who didn't get a bloody nose after being hit by sword shockwaves
wow..i never see that before
Imma just say this. Fuck. That. Creepy. Train.
This was one of my favorite games!
The last part is terrifying cause you can’t defend yourself! But still an awesome ending.
11:55 “SHOOT THE CORE.”
yes rocket knight adventures ruled awsome boss run dude keep them coming
This is like the most recent Kirby final bosses who just refuse to die.
Severely under appreciated game.
Definitely
There's a way easier way to do the first boss by just rocketing behind him from the start. He can't attack backwards, if you timed it right he won't backtrack onto you, and its bombs can't hit you.
Also a much faster way to do the serpent (which I think isn't more than a mini-boss, like the first one, the first actual boss is the third boss in this video), which requires you to know where the serpent will appear (its scripted) and stand ontop of its head wailing your sword at it, if done right the serpent will die even before the first jump.
Faster way to do the train: on the first phase jump on his face, attack twice with your sword and jump, rince and repeat, it dies before it reaches the end the first time. Second phase, evade the hands by timing your attacks when they come at you, you will do damage and receive none, standing on the right hand corner when he does the hand target attack just hack away and none of the attacks will hit you.Third phase is pretty much the video.
On the Gigantic Fish, you can just jump twice when the platforms are moving and then just run on the oposite direction of the fish and you won't fall as long as you time right the end of the phase.
This video actually shows all bosses and mini-bosses, since the only actual bosses are the centipede machine, Train Tank, Gigantic Mechanical Fish, Captain Fleagle and his Giant Junkbot, The Pig Robot Fight, Mothership, Emperor, Axl, and the Pig Star core, the rest is mini bosses.
Who are the mini bosses
@@rachaelchampion6195
Every boss that doesn't have the well-known major boss theme.
They either have the level's theme song or the mini-boss theme song instead
one of the best game in 2D!
WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS?!
Sir Embrum49 The Great Moth It looks like a lot of fun. Would you recomend it?
Because you probably heard of the nintendo rip off which was mediocre compared to this one.
@@lucianocastrogiovanni2879 "Nintendo rip off"? Konami made both Rocket Knight Adventures *and* Sparkster. They had every right to reuse gameplay elements.
24:55 how is he still alive!?!? 25:20 now hes gone :p
wait was that a robot the hole time or something not somebody controlling it?
We can all agree that the boss music sequence is best suited for the TRAIN BOSS!
This will make an interesting show is somebody had brought the rights to it
Fun fact:do you know pulsating plasma blaster is based on big core.
The Mothership Boss is very simillar to the boss Mothership from Bucky o'hare before the part of the final boss
Bucky O'Hare had a lot of cross references with Rocket Knight Adventures and Gradius/Life Force. All great games.
11:30 great reference to Gradius
Yeah agreed! I'm really sad that we didn't get gradius games one SEGA genesis!!
In RK2 or Sparkster as it's called you can see the console struggles with the game. During boss explosions the game slows down to a crawl especially during the boss that looks like a stick man
I wanna think that the slow down was intended just to make it seem like a dramatic finish
Had this game as a kid only ever made it to the crab guy, but good memories
One of my favourite games back in the days. Still playing it these days
This masterpiece !
10:48 That fucking guy has given me more problems than the giant robot itself, and just runs.
Thank you. Bring back so much memory
Btw Axle Gear is the best villain in this game!!!
you mean rivaler?
That final boss desperately want to destroy Sparkster lol
I think this was the game that inspired mother 3s pigmask army
Mother 3 came out before Rocket Knight Adventure
@@mekaboo318 No dude. Mother 2 (Earthbound) didn't even come out before Rocket Knight Adventure. Rocket Knight Adventure came out in 1993, while Earthbound came out in 1994 and Mother 3 in 2006 (on the GBA).
You forgot to include the fight against Axel in Stage 6 where he fires a big-ass laser beam.
11:25 obvious Gradius recycle is obvious.
#Konami
D E S T R O Y T H E C O R E
SiegeTF ,
Game is fantastic & all the bosses are great but nothing tops that train boss.
The collection of this game is almost here
11:25
Thats a cool nod to Gradius!
How can I beat the Giant Pig Mech of Axel Gear without being hit? Can someone give me a strategy? Please help me, I lose something as 20 lives there and I can't go further.
Stefano Riva Wait for him to approach you then either counter-attack or try to get the drop on him. Being lower seems to give your punches more range, so use that to your advantage. Don't approach him yourself as he will just swing at you while you move into range. Good luck!
Thank you Analytic31! I already managed to beat him (and the game, because he was the hardest boss of all imho) some weeks ago. I confirm what you say about staying low and waiting for his move.
Sparkster: (excitedly) "All right! It worked!"👍
21:20 - that sound is familiar
Remember when Konami made games that were both fun AND good? You know, before they thought pachinko was a better idea?
I thought I was good at this game when I was a kid.....come to find out I only made it half way 🤣 ...but still a great game
Actually beat this one on emulator a few years back. Not sure how... watching this again I remember how fucking hard this game is. That magic disappearing ship? Took me a lot cuss words to get through that one...
Sparkster: (to Captain Fleagle) "Tag, you're it!"
Very impressive!
Where is our remake
why can't sega be what they used to be?!
Because they got none of the talents (employees) they used to have.
+thai nguyen did Sega fired them😰😰?
Sega didn't make this game, it was Konami
Well, what system is it on??
It's on a Sega Genesis, but the game was made by Konami
I know who Axel Gear is and he is Sparkster's evil arch-nemesis
I loved this part 13:05 at the age of 10 when I made it that far at Stage 5. It's like playing Rock 'EM Sock 'Em in my childhood years.
The specific setting of the game))
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Sparkster: (to Axel Gear) "Tag, you're it, dude!"
That spaceship boss is freakin impossible not to get hit while fighting
my all time favorite
I want this game to get rereleased on switch or something
Pbly one of the greatest of all time... crazy game .
2:50 moon lord :p and
21:43 ocram
Wtf
They are no where near similar
1When evil Rocket Knight blew the wall open I was like "holy shit!" lol I could never get that far back in the day
Are pigs opossums' natural enemies or something? Why else would all the robots Axel Gear built have the pig snouts?
Sparkster: "That's me!"
Will never forget: "PIG"-Core (lol! Sorry I know you already named him Pulsating Plasma Blaster, but I have habits form a certain shooter to just call him "PIG-core") and how I double-KO'd myself with Axel Gear! X'D
19min in axle jumping around like Yoda in the prequel starwars movies lol so bad ass
if real life had the same sound effects as the 4th boss (in that first duel), I think we would all be better people for it
Played this on emulator a couple years back and love it, the music slaps. I mostly grew up playing Sparkster 2.
Fun fact: This game was released when I was born.
Boss 01 01:24 Big Spider
Boss 02 03:57 Train Tank
Boss 03 07:38 Blink Gigantic Mechanical Fish
Boss 04 09:58 Giant Captain Fleagle and His
Boss 05 12:30 Axle Gear and His Giant Pig Mech
Boss 06 13:46 Mothership
Final Boss 21:03 Mr. The Pig Star Core
Where did you get these names?
Some from spriters-resource, some from gamefaqs.
All this just to rescue the princes.
Rocket Knight Adventures is a solid a** game.
It gave you a brutal challenge, but it's very doable.
There he is, the yellow dog leader Generalissamo Lioness!...ATTACK!! 0:12
Hello, Do you have Sparkester Snes all bosses no damage?
Nice !!!!!
4:09 ???
That dog looks like an animal version of Mega-Man.
William McBrine It's a Possum ☺
And his name is sparkster
17:49
Huh. Ganon looks different than I remember him.
( maybe someone already made this joke. Sorry. )
The sounds in Rocket Knight is similar to the sounds in Sonic The Hedgehog