PC Denjin
PC電人1992PC Denjin
PC電人ALSO KNOWN AS AIR ZONK
Bonk's look-alike Zonk flies a shooter set in the year 2999.
Air Zonk is a horizontal shooter that moves the Bonk series into the future. Its hero is a punk-styled character. King Drool returns as an enemy.
| RELEASED IN JAPAN | 20 November 1992 |
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| RELEASED IN NORTH AMERICA | 1992 |
| DEVELOPED BY | Red Company, with help from Naxat Soft |
| PUBLISHED BY | Hudson Soft |
| SEQUEL | Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly Paradise, 1993 |
The game has five levels. Zonk fires normal shots, and he can charge a stronger attack. A long charge drops a bomb that hits every enemy on screen.
He can collect seven power-ups, and each one can be charged for a special attack. Picking up a new one costs him the current power-up.
Before a level, the player may pick one companion from a list of ten. Collecting eight smiley faces summons a friend. Collecting eight more merges them into a hybrid form, with a new attack and 20 seconds of invulnerability.
The difficulty settings are sweet, spicy and bitter.
The game is set in the year 2999. The villain, Count King Tamago Sandrovich, rebuilds the hero, Genhead, into a cyborg.
Genhead escapes and forms the PUNKIC CYBORGS with his friends. The Count is a descendant of King Tamagodon III, the Japanese name for King Drool.
The aim was to update the company's image with a modern, punkish hero.
Electronic Gaming Monthly named it its TurboGrafx-16 Game of the Year for 1992.
Reviewers gave it a GameRankings average of 76.25 percent from four reviews.
Wii Virtual Console releases followed in 2007, in Japan, America and Europe.
It is the shooter spin-off of the Bonk series. The Japanese article says it was the last shooter Hudson released on HuCard.
- The Software Bible suggests the Gen in Genhead's name comes from Genjin.
- The score counter uses trillion and hundred-million units in its upper and lower digits.
- In a 1993 PC Engine Fan reader poll, it ranked 55th among PC Engine games.
- Zonk was made to resemble Bonk on purpose.
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