Bucky O'Hare Nintendo

One of Konami's least known NES classics, Bucky O'Hare is highly reminiscent of the Mega Man series.

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Bucky O'Hare was originally a comic book series, written by Larry Hama and drawn by Michael Golden. An animated television series was produced and aired around 1990, and along with it came the requisite toy line. The anthropomorphic series also spawned a NES game as well as an arcade game. On March 6, 1991, the last episode of the television series was aired. Afterward, not much has been released in the United States. The only Bucky O'Hare related media has been the release of the original series on Region 2 DVD, and a short 3-D cartoon was made by renowned comic artist Neal Adams. The NES game was developed and released by Konami and saw Captain Bucky and his crew appear on a home video game console for the first and only time. The game was hailed as Konami's answer to Mega Man and certainly shared many features in common with the series. It was known for it's good level of challenge that was not impossible like a lot of games at the time, but was certainly not easy by any measure, and also its extremely catchy soundtrack and varied settings. In 1992, a Bucky O'Hare arcade game is released, much different than the home console version. Masato Maegawa, Bucky O'Hare's director and lead programmer, left Konami to co-found Treasure shortly after completing this project.