Konami’s ‘Roc ‘N Rope’ is coming to consoles this week.
This week’s Arcade Archives release is Konami’s “wire-action” title Roc ‘N Rope, an early arcade game from the creator of the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series and Bionic Commando and the co-creator of Resident Evil, Tokuro Fujiwara.
Released in 1983, Roc ‘N Rope was one of two games developed by Fujiwara while he was still employed at Konami (the other being the 1982 archery-based shooter Pooyan), and is sometimes considered to be a spiritual predecessor to some of his later projects, including Bionic Commando and The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, due to all of these games sharing the same core mechanic of placing ropes to climb to higher platforms.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
Konami’s ‘Roc ‘N Rope’ is coming to consoles this week.
This week’s Arcade Archives release is Konami’s “wire-action” title Roc ‘N Rope, an early arcade game from the creator of the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series and Bionic Commando and the co-creator of Resident Evil, Tokuro Fujiwara.
Released in 1983, Roc ‘N Rope was one of two games developed by Fujiwara while he was still employed at Konami (the other being the 1982 archery-based shooter Pooyan), and is sometimes considered to be a spiritual predecessor to some of his later projects, including Bionic Commando and The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, due to all of these games sharing the same core mechanic of placing ropes to climb to higher platforms.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
