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Past that, the devastating вЂњrabbit punchвЂќ likely paved the way for other melee tactics in shooters, like grazing and the laser sword in Radiant Silvergun.

The game wears its 16-bit hardware on its sleeve, with parallax scrolling, an eerie science-fiction setting, and digitized speech which regularly warns players of approaching bosses and depleted missile stocks. Rabio Lepus represents both a strong debut for Video System as well as a solid entry in a genre that would explode in popularity years later.

This rare item can turn you into a rainbow-colored comet of death for eight secondsвЂ¦ but not if it drops out of your reach.

This isnвЂ™t quite so bad when the cans contain bags of money or a few missiles, but it can be downright infuriating when you find a tanuki. YouвЂ™ll often need to do this to clear away the tougher enemies blocking your path, but itвЂ™s also useful for cracking open the carrot cans, keeping the power ups inside from falling off the screen as they so often do when the cans are struck with bullets. Come dangerously close to an enemy and your rabbit jabs it with a gloved fist, doing heavy damage or destroying it outright. ThereвЂ™s one other wrinkle to the gameplayвЂ¦ melee combat. Having a bow stuck to your rabbitвЂ™s ears doesnвЂ™t make it any more intimidating, but you canвЂ™t argue with the results! Your bullets canвЂ™t be powered up, but the missiles can, doubling in both strength and number after you collect a ribbon. YouвЂ™ve got an endless supply of bullets, but the game isnвЂ™t so generous with missiles, granting you a small handful and forcing you to collect more from the cans of carrots found in each stage. The first is that the weapon system is streamlined, with one button firing a stream of flashing bullets and the other unleashing a cluster of missiles. The gameplay of Rabio Lepus should be familiar territory to anyone whoвЂ™s played side scrolling shoot вЂ™em ups, but there a few key differences worth noting. The storyline plays out in brief cut scenes after every fourth stage, although the US version of the game omits some of that dialog. Fueled by carrots, armed with missiles, and packing a mean punch, this determined duo wonвЂ™t quit until the royal family has been safely returned to their homeland. A mechanical army takes gentle King Kitashirakawa and his granddaughters hostage, and itвЂ™s up to Rabio and Lepus, the elite members of the robot rabbit guard, to retrieve them while delivering justice to the fiends responsible. Rabio Lepus begins as many games of its time did, with a royal kidnapping.

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Most likely it was chosen because the license was cheap and because side-scrolling shooters were growing in popularity at the time, as evidenced by KonamiвЂ™s Life Force (1986), CapcomвЂ™s Side Arms: Hyper Dyne (1986), and IremвЂ™s R-Type (1987). ItвЂ™s unclear why Bally-Sente picked Rabbit Punch for localization, or if Nolan Bushnell had any influence on this decision. It was created in Japan and incompatible with the 6809-powered SAC, running on the more capable 68000/Z80 hardware that became increasingly popular in the 1980s. Bally-Sente developed the lionвЂ™s share of its games (typically sports titles like Hat Trick, Sente Mini Golf, and Stocker) in-house for the SAC hardware, making Rabbit Punch something of an oddity in the Sente library. One year after that, Sente became an imprint of Bally-Midway, around the same time the company purchased Sega from Paramount/Gulf & Western (now Viacom).Д«ally-Sente was an early pioneer of the arcade jukebox, designing its Sente Arcade Computer system to take cartridges years before CapcomвЂ™s CPS and SNKвЂ™s Neo-Geo systems. Sente itself has an interesting bit of history, starting out as Videa in 1982 before being sold to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell one year later. One of the lesser-known games from the arcade renaissance of the late 1980s, Rabio Lepus was developed by V-System (later Video System) in 1987, and localized in America by Bally-Sente as Rabbit Punch.

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