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Post by Discoalucard on Dec 27, 2015 15:10:49 GMT -5
 www.hardcoregaming101.net/chelnov/chelnov.htmOne of Data East's most popular games (at least in Japan), Atomic Runner Chelnov stars a Russian superhero granted powers by a nuclear accident. Unique from other side-scrolling platformers, Chelnov sprints through each stage automatically, making it a forebearer to the modern infinite runner (though the levels aren't actually infinite). Most known for its (vastly improved) Genesis port, which was shortened in its American release to simply Atomic Runner. |
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Dec 27, 2015 17:12:28 GMT -5
The main music of the arcade version is one of those tunes I still remember from playing games and hum from time to time, and that dinosaur with an iron mask was a lasting memory (if anything because it also appeared in the attract mode). The Genesis version is amazing visually, if less consistent in jumping around the world. The game itself, however, while I remember it fondly I have a hard time considering it a great one; the gameplay is certainly challenging but I don't know how good is for a game to have you fight more with its controls than with the enemies and environments at times.
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Post by Maciej Miszczyk on Dec 27, 2015 17:17:31 GMT -5
that video with the Japanese actress set to Chelnov music is pure gold. I don't know if the fact that I have no idea what it's about makes it better or worse.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Dec 27, 2015 18:01:52 GMT -5
that video with the Japanese actress set to Chelnov music is pure gold. I don't know if the fact that I have no idea what it's about makes it better or worse. Oh to give that some context, her name is Masami Hisamoto, and it's from one of several promotional appearances she did for Sōka Gakkai International. It's a Bhuddist evangelical organization, and it and her are regarded the way say Tom Cruise and Scientology are by many people in the US. So after that video game coue there was a huge amount of these parody videos of her all over. The original of which featured her video and some awesome Kirby music. Anyways there were so many these showing up on NicoVideo and other Japanese video sharing sites that she and that church attempted to pursue legal action to get them removed, so now they exist under the similar but not quite the same name "HIssu Amoto."  This site has a more comprehensive breakdown of it: knowyourmeme.com/memes/hissu-amoto-san-airmoto |
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Post by Woody Alien on Dec 27, 2015 18:46:54 GMT -5
I remember being very young and getting to play with one of my classmates' Genesis, and Chelnov was one of the games he owned. The images of the box and in the manual seemed amazing, so I couldn't wait to try it... and I instantly got to hate it because I never could figure out how to play it and couldn't even beat the first stage. To this day I still think that it's a dumb game and I enjoy more to beat the snot out of him in his several incarnations from Data East's other platformers and action games.
That said, I have a soft spot for the use of Aztec/Maya/Egyptian/whatever imagery in the various stages and for all the weird bits such as the frozen giants, moving pyramids and Terminator sphinxes.
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Post by drpepperfan on Dec 27, 2015 19:27:43 GMT -5
Bit surprised there wasn't mention of Chelnov being the final boss/playable in the last Fighter's History game. Yeah there was a picture of him in it at the bottom, but I figured it was a pretty notable appearance.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Dec 27, 2015 19:50:04 GMT -5
Any Chelnov appearance is notable.  |
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Post by Magma MK-II on Dec 27, 2015 20:08:16 GMT -5
Speaking of which, it would be cool to have more reviews of Data East properties.
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Post by cowboycrocket on Dec 27, 2015 20:51:05 GMT -5
Speaking of which, it would be cool to have more reviews of Data East properties. I wouldn't mind a Fighter's History one since there is a story behind that franchise what with that Capcom lawsuit. |
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Post by Neo Rasa on Dec 27, 2015 22:10:19 GMT -5
It was actually one of my New Year's resolutions to do just that!!! I want to maybe do something about all of their cassette games too but it can be a little more difficult toget good information about some of them. But it spawned stuff like Boulder Dash and cult games like Bump 'N Jump! Also interesting because a lot of the games in the original WarioWare on GBA borrow very heavily from the earlier ones like Manhattan and Boulder Dash itself.
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Post by Discoalucard on Dec 27, 2015 23:03:02 GMT -5
Speaking of which, it would be cool to have more reviews of Data East properties. After putting out the Taito digest (due in February 2016 or so), the next book will focus on Data East, so we'll be focusing on covering a good chunk of their games going forward. |
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Post by 320x240 on Dec 28, 2015 3:27:44 GMT -5
Some time in the mid-eighties the local gas station decided to place two arcade cabinets on the outside of the building it was housed in (not very far from the pumps). Games would change every so often, usually alternating between shmups and platformers. My two favorite games from that period was Psycho-Nics Oscar and Chelnov, both by Data-East. Sadly, those where two of the least popular games with the other players, so they where changed quickly. Chelnov was the last game they had (can't remember the other one) and I remember how sad I was upon walking there and finding the cabinets gone. You would have thought they at least could have informed their star player in advance...  |
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Post by Woody Alien on Dec 28, 2015 7:07:03 GMT -5
Speaking of which, it would be cool to have more reviews of Data East properties. After putting out the Taito digest (due in February 2016 or so), the next book will focus on Data East, so we'll be focusing on covering a good chunk of their games going forward. This is probably not the right place to mention it, but I'd be interested in writing something about Tumblepop and its spiritual sequel Diet Go Go! I'd include Joe & Mac Returns too, but it has already been mentioned in the Joe & Mac article. |
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Post by Elvin Atombender on Dec 29, 2015 10:07:19 GMT -5
The main music of the arcade version is one of those tunes I still remember from playing games and hum from time to time. Same here. The upgraded Megadrive version is one of my favorite 16-bit tunes too. |
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Post by blackdrazon on Jan 13, 2016 5:46:10 GMT -5
Just a few issues with the article itself:
The words "Atomic Runner" appear as their own sentence for no reason right here:
"Like their Midnight Resistance port, Atomic Runner successfully meets the challenge of getting a non traditional arcade game layout to work on the Genesis' three button controller. Atomic Runner."
The article discusses the abandoned Sega Saturn port in detail at the start of the ports section, and then inexplicably discusses it again in minimal detail in the penultimate paragraph. To make things even more confusing, the two paragraphs list entirely different leak dates: the detailed paragraph saying the game was found in 2012, and the abbreviated paragraph saying 2014.
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