Cyborg Justice is a side-scrolling beat ’em up video game developed by Novotrade and published in 1993 for the Sega Genesis.

Plot

The game’s opening cinematic shows a spaceship crashing onto a mining colony. The ship’s occupant dies shortly after the crash. The space-traveler’s brain is saved and it is transplanted into cyborg body. His memory is erased so that he can be put to work. The memory wipe fails and the player, as the unwilling cyborg, must escape.

Gameplay

When starting the game, players are prompted to select an arm, body, and legs for their cyborg character. Enemies are also a combination of these three types of cyborg parts, even having the secondary arm mixed. When players choose the “two players game mode,” players will be prompted to the customization room, and afterwards either go to the main adventure mode or the duel mode if they previously set it in the Options menu. The first player has a combination of metallic gray and yellow, while the second player has a combination of metallic green and purple.

Ending

At the end of the game, when the player defeats the Brainiac, the scene changes, and the player finds themselves in the same area where they were forced to comply with orders at the start of the game. The cyborgs then give the player praise for “freeing” them, and offer the player to be their leader. The Cyborgs tell the player that they need good leadership so that they don’t get enslaved again.

Special Moves

Some fighting moves are unique to a specific body part. At the start of the game, the player is able to choose their Torso, primary arm, and legs. Available Arms: Cannon Arm, Flamethrower Arm, Saw Arm, Regular Arm. The player cannot change their other arm. The cannon arm can shoot, the flamethrower spews fire, the saw arm can cut, and the regular arm will just punch. Torsos do not give any extra fighting moves, but they do offer speed and health bonuses. There are multiple legs to choose from. The Pneumatic Legs, the Summersault Legs, the Big Legs, and the Tank Legs give special bonuses. the pneumatic legs offer greater kicking power, the summersault legs increase agility and enable the player to summersault, the big legs are immune to floor traps, and the tank legs allow the player to transform their legs into tank tracks, and “dash.” The tank legs will hurt enemies if they come in contact with the player while they’re “Dashing.” There are multiple arms that the player can only acquire by taking them off enemies, such as the missile arm, The piston arm, and more. The player can also jump onto enemies and perform a move that drains health from the enemy and heals the player.

External links

• Cyborg Justice at Mobygames
• Cyborg Justice can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive