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Akira the game

posted 14 years ago by petiopi
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would be the best thing ever.
i mean you could have:
- rad bike chases against the clowns through neo tokyo
- hovercraft flying around in the sewers
- tetsuo psychic action through the facility, galerians style
- keneda on bike with laser gun vs tetsuo
- katamari style rolling level with giant squishy tetsuo

and if it were based on the manga, even more things like:
- kickang a$$ with chiyoko in post apocaliptic rubble
- play as the colonel, with his hand held SOL device against baddies
- the epic bike war at the end

i hope it gets made...

[–] TalesfromTheCryptfan 14 years ago

That would be peachy and what's so hard to base the game on the movie and manga? i want it dammit

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[–] Blinking_Fish 14 years ago

There was a game of akira. It was release on the famicom but not North America. I don't think it had a european relase either.

It was just a text game with images from the movie. Images would play at the time and the writing would be at the bottom then you would have to pick the right answer.

I never got very far in it as I couldn't read Japanese and it was rather boring.

[–] donstuie 14 years ago

I seem to remember them developing it for the Super Famicom once upon a time, but it went nowhere. I remember seeing a couple of screenshots, might've been cool.

[–] simba12 13 years ago

There was a Akira Game for the Commodore CD32

[–] tume-x 13 years ago

Here you go, a video of the Akira -video game for Amiga 500, I used to own this game... Way before I ever even saw the movie itself (it captures the feel of the film well and looks decent, but it was incredibly unfair/cheap/difficult and frustrating):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYjvxlOhpeQ

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[–] CYBRPnk 13 years ago

The famicon one was already mentioned but there was also a pinball game for PS2.

[–] jackstarr777 12 years ago

If you've ever played Final Fantasy VII (definitely one of the best games ever made), you'll notice loads of references and obvious inspirations from Akira. Most notably the motorbike stage, which is very similar to and just as awesome as the motorbike chase at the start of the film. There's also the giant tumour at the end and similar themes.

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