Eightman by SNK Author: DJ Tigresa and MC Pantera Email: djtigresa@classicgaming.com, mcpantera@classicgaming.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't know much of the story here. All we know is that you and a friend if you play a 2-player game play as superheroes (blue and red) and you try to save the world from annhilation (seems to be the case) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Controls and system ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A: punch/kick A+B: Special kick B: Jump C: special attack D-pad: move Down+B: slide C (2-player): 2 player special attack You have 3 lifebars and 3 bombs. The bombs are your special attacks (C) You'll also pick up power ups: B=Bomb, L=life and P=points ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 1-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stage starts with missiles blowing up the city then you swoop in. There are green enemies that are easily defeated as you run right. Red enemies show too and they are just as easy. Wait for them to jump out the building and kick them before they have a chance. Some green enemies come out swinging but keep your distance with your attack. The green and purple enemies require 2 hits. As you are about to chase a tank, a nasty creatures busts out of the vile in the back and attacks ----------------- Boss Fight Difficulty: 1 This guy looks like the predator almost. Not much of a strategy as you can punch and kick his ass to death and just sacrifice some spare life. He was not much of a fight. His life bar went down quick. ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 1-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a running stage. Alien pods come in swarms and enemies in the background and foreground will dive in front of you or behind you and it is better to back up as they jump if they were behind you, then attack. After two waves of alien pods, the boss appears ----------------- Boss Fight Difficulty: 1 Another easy fight. This is the tank you were chasing at the end of 1-1 but was rudely interrupted. Use whatever bombs you got. You should have them all at point and the boss doesn't stand a chance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 1 Big Boss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Big Boss Fight: Super Robot 005 Difficulty: 2 A little easy. Super Robot 005 starts out trying to stomp you and he'll follow up by either vanishing or charging up his purple flame attack. If the former, move away from his landing area. If the latter, just stay down and the attack will miss. Keep attacking him between his attacks and he's outta here. ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 2-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are cliffs in the background. More minor enemies appear and a new red animal type enemy appears too. It takes 3 hits to kill. You'll also see an enemy juggling a spiked wheel. Stay on the ledge and kick it away and keep going. You'll reach a pit with flame geyers coming out. Hop over the pits carefully and kill any enemies in the way. Now there are spots where the are enemies throw spiked wheels get rid of them quick. More enemies appear including one blue animal type. Let it charge past you and it's gone. There are more pits to hop across and a nasty tank shooting spiked wheels. Duck and kill it. An 8-power appears. use it and you will be invincible. Run as far right as you can till the power wears off. Kill the tank at the end shooting spiked wheels and stage over. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 2-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new enemy appears and you must kill both parts of its body. Now hop on the platforms over the pits. Watch for the pods with revolving spike wheels. More of the same enemies appear and soon you'll see Hurry Scurry. Avoid the rocket thrusts on the bottom of it. Hop on the platform marked with the down arrow and use a bomb from here to kill the guns. The ship flies over a pit and when on solid ground, watch out for the thrusts and gun blasts. Hop on the platform on the far right as the screen scrolls down. Hop left and stay in the corner and kill the balls coming from the left and a red nerve appears. ----------------- Big Boss Fight: Hurry Scurry Difficulty: 1 Use a special up close and that is it. What's with these easy bosses? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 3-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another running stage which has enemies hopping back and forth till a helicopter appears and shoots at you. It will leave on its own then as usual the enemies just hop around then new enemies fly by and bounces black balls at you. Another tank appears as you chase it and as usual 2-3 bombs and it's over No need for a boss fight description here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 3-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A lot of splitting enemies fight here. Soon you're back to the conventional robots and a rolly polly enemy as well as a spaceship that doesn't stick around long. Hop the pits and kill the enemies. There are a lot of pits coming. Watch for the spaceships above and kill the split enemies. Only their top half are attacking. Remember the boss of level 1-1? There are many of them here. Use as much bombs as you can. You fight 4 total. At the end, the real boss appears ----------------- Boss Fight Difficulty: 3 A dog like creature hops around and shoots at you too. Try to attack it between jumps and avoid its landings and the fire it blows at you. Tougher than the other bosses you fought but not too hard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 3-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A lot of zombies appear and sink in the ground and rise up again. Be careful as they take many hits to die. Head right for the 8-power and run right as fast as you can and kill any enemy in the way. Hop the pits and kill a tank and more zombies. Don't stop for nothing unless you have too in this case hop over pits and avoid the spaceships. reach the end to end the stage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 3 Big Boss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Big Boss Fight: Kozuma Difficulty: 3 Use your bombs and bye bye Kozuma. ----------------- Boss Fight Difficulty: 2 Another tank you are chasing. As usual, a couple bombs and off to the next level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 4-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just another running stage with alien pod waves coming at you. Pick up whatever powerups appear. Dodge the bombs being dropped by the saucers above. After a series of running robots the boss appears. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 4-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It helps to hop over the blue charging enemies and hop on the higher ledge to avoid the last ones. More robots and zombies appear. Just keep heading right and don't stop for nothing except to kill the tank shooting spiked wheels. The dog like boss from 3-2 appears. Kill it as before. It is much slower than it was last time. After there are two Super Robot 005s (Big Boss of Level 1). It's a tougher fight but fight them the same way by staying down often. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 4-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YAY! New enemies! These guys look like your character only purple. They require more hits than the average enemy and got the same power as you almost so be careful. A green version of Kozuma (big boss of Level 3) appears and he is much tougher than he was earlier. He has massive lightning strikes which are very damaging. Beat him to beat the stage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 4-4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The boss is one huge machine. You start on a platform that rises while you fight enemies coming out from the background and foreground. Watch out for the hand coming from theside. Stay on the opposite side of whatever hand comes out. After you reach the top the head appears. ----------------- Boss Fight: Cyber Difficulty: 5 Just keep waking at the head and use your bombs. This is one of the tougher bosses so you might lose a couple lives. During the fight, it will turn into a brain and shoot purple lightning pillars at you from the background before it becomes a face again. After the fight, a wierd skeleton with no bottom flies away. SPOILER . . . . . . . . . . . . That is the last boss of the game. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 4-5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is just a running state that is real short. All you do is whack at the skeleton guy till it flies off. Avoid it's firreballs that it shoots from the background. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 4-6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Last Boss Fight Difficulty: 6 This is not a breeze like the other bosses. You have to avoid its charges and its fireballs. You'll lose a couple lives but just bomb on him till he his defeated and you get an ending sequence of your characters returning to civilian clothes and credits.