Buried Treasures (Inagural edition): Cybernator (SNES)

I’ve been meaning to start this up for a while.  The purpose of this feature is to spotlight classic games that don’t seem to get enough recongnition.  Ganked and gaffled from my $20 game of the week, I’m gonna try to do this weekly.

We’re gonna set this off with Konami’s Cybernator, a side-scrolling shooter in the vein of Contra 3, but with giant mech!  How cool is that?  You have several upgradable weapons at your disposal, and you blast up enemy robots in an attempt to bring an end to a war that has ravaged the planet.  Some of the enemies you fight are mechs that can fill up the entire half of the screen, and you can destroy anything not nailed down as in true mech fashion.  Along with the graphics, the music is also to be noted here. It does well in order to get you into the game’s atmosphere.  Download this rom and check out it’s greatness.  Hopefully it will be available on Wii’s virtual console as well.