Overview and Gameplay
Colonel Red has seized four Mystical Gems and plans to revive the destructive robot Golden Silver. The Gunstar twins fight through his army in Treasure’s fast, technically ambitious run-and-gun adventure, widely regarded as one of the Sega Genesis library’s strongest action games.
Players shoot, jump, grapple enemies, throw objects, and battle elaborate transforming bosses. Four opening stages can be tackled in any order before the campaign moves into a fixed final sequence. Mine carts, spacecraft, a board-game stage, and other set pieces constantly vary the action.
Controls And Mechanics
- Directions move, crouch, and aim.
- A switches between carried weapons, B fires, and C jumps.
- Four weapon types can be carried in pairs and combined into ten distinct attacks, including homing shots, beams, flames, and close-range energy weapons.
- Players can block, slide, grab and throw enemies, hang from ledges, and perform character-specific aerial attacks.
- Two players can fight simultaneously in cooperative play. A defeated partner may rejoin by receiving half of the survivor’s vitality.
Release And Credits
- Year: 1993
- Developer: Treasure
- Publisher: Sega
- Original platform: Sega Genesis and Mega Drive
