Silver Surfer (video game)



Silver Surfer is an auto scrolling Shoot Em Up with Side View and Top Down View levels, based on the comic book series. Released in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and considered one of the hardest games ever made.

You play the Surfer, shooting his way through five three-section levels. You can choose which level to play, just like Mega Man. At the end of each level, you fight a Boss Battle against a villain from the Silver Surfer comics universe, and gain one piece of a Dismantled MacGuffin, known in-game only as the "device". Once you have finished all five levels, Galactus sends you into the Magik Domain to retrieve the final piece of the device. After more shooting and a Final Boss (a giant purple guy with a huge pistol) you retrieve the final piece of the device. Galactus says "It's mine!", but the Surfer says "No, it's too dangerous" and hides it away. The end.

Silver Surfer provides examples of:

 * A Winner Is You
 * Auto Scrolling Level
 * Boss Battle
 * Check Point: The sections.
 * Cutscene
 * Deadly Walls
 * Dismantled MacGuffin
 * Every Bullet Is a Tracer
 * Face Heel Turn: Galactus, though this happens in a cutscene at the end, and you don't actually fight him.
 * Final Boss
 * Flash of Pain
 * Game Levels: Six, with three sections each, for a total of 18 distinct levels.
 * Mission Control: Galactus.
 * Nintendo Hard: One of the hardest games ever made.
 * One Hit Point Wonder: The Surfer.
 * Shoot Em Up
 * Side View
 * Top Down View