Blog:Code Name: Viper (NES)

CRV (talk) 00:03, 13 May 2014 (CEST) [permalink] [comments]

It's a story ripped straight from today's headlines. The War on Drugs is underway, and you, special agent "Viper," must take on a powerful drug syndicate in South America. But all is not what it seems...

Capcom's Code Name: Viper (Ningen Heiki: Dead Fox [人間兵器デッドフォックス] in Japan) is probably most notable for being a big ol' Rolling Thunder ripoff, except now you get to shoot and jump at the same time. You also get to rescue hostages, but you don't have to if you don't want to.

As Capcom NES games go, Viper is better than Little Mermaid or TaleSpin. Objectively speaking, it's probably in the middle of the pack, but I'm more likely to pick it up than a Mega Man game. The graphics are nice, that trademark Capcom sound is there, and the game handles fairly well.

Arc System Works is confirmed to have worked on this. I assume they at least programmed it. (Do these look like Capcom graphics to you? The sound is Capcom, of course.) And because of that confirmation and other evidence, I think Arc probably also worked on the NES version of Rolling Thunder, which probably led to the Viper gig.

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