Bucky O´hare [Gameplay] [Arcade]
1Bucky O'Hare is a fictional character and the hero of an eponymous comic book series as well as spin-off media including an animated TV series and various toys and video games. He was created by comic book writer Larry Hama and comic book artist Michael Golden between 1977 and 1978 and debuted to the public in Echo of Futurepast #1 in May 1984.
The storyline of Bucky O'Hare follows a parallel universe where a war is ongoing between the inept United Animals Federation and the sinister Toad Empire. The United Animals Federation is an interplanetary republic run by sapient mammals, while The Toad Empire is controlled by a vast computer system known as KOMPLEX, which has led the highly consumerist toad population to fight an expansionist campaign against the rest of the galaxy.
Overview
The original Bucky O'Hare was published by Continuity Comics between 1984 and 1985. The series ran in issues #1-6 of the comics anthology series Echo of Futurepast, with Hama writing and Michael Golden on pencils. All six parts were collected into an oversized graphic novel in 1986.
The comic book spawned an animated television adaptation, Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars, and in 1991, to coincide with its release, the original comic was re-published as its own standalone series, in an expanded form that modified and added to the original artwork, inserting many new panels and scenes into the story. The series was intended to run for six issues, but only five were published between January 1991 and March 1992, leaving the expanded version of the story incomplete. Hama wrote a second Bucky O'Hare arc, which was never published.
When the animated series was broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1992, DC Thomson published their own Bucky O'Hare comic, which ran bi-weekly for twenty issues from March to December of that year. The first six issues of the series re-printed the original US series (#1-5 using the expanded version, and #6 using the original Echo version), after which the series moved on to original material (incorporating elements of the animated series) written by Peter Stone, penciled by Andre Coates, and inked by Joel Adams.
The cartoon, meanwhile, ran from September 1991 to January 1992, along with a series of action figures. During that period, Konami produced two tie-in video games based on the property: an NES version and an arcade version, both released in 1992.
Characters
Main article: List of Bucky O'Hare characters
Bucky O'Hare and crew. Art by Michael Golden.
Bucky and his crew are members of the S.P.A.C.E. organization, which stands for Sentient Protoplasm Against Colonial Encroachment.
Bucky O'Hare – a green hare, captain of a S.P.A.C.E. frigate named The Righteous Indignation. His crew was introduced in the comic and consists of:
Jenny – first mate and pilot, a female cat from the planet Aldebaran with mysterious magical and psionic powers common to the females of her species. They include telepathy, astral projection, energy blasts, and healing. Because of the Prime Directive of the Aldebaran Sisterhood, she keeps these powers secret from the other members of the crew. She shows overt romantic affections for Willy DuWitt, as if she has a crush on him.
Bruce – a Betelgeusian Berserker Baboon who served as the Righteous Indignation's engineer. In the TV show, he vanishes into another dimension when the ship's photon accelerator malfunctioned during battle.
Willy DuWitt – engineer, a pre-teen human genius from San Francisco who enters the Parallel Universe via a portal between the ship's photon accelerator and his own accelerator at home. He replaced Bruce, the former engineer, who was vaporized when toad plasma weapons caused a massive feedback in the ship's photon accelerator. Later, Willy became stranded when his parents turned off the photon accelerator back in his room. Bucky and his crew decide to keep Willy a secret from the Toads.
Deadeye Duck – gunner, a four-armed former space pirate duck from Kanopis III. He is missing an eye, and is impatient and violent, preferring to let his four laser pistols do the talking for him. Speaks with a Southern accent.
AFC Blinky – an advanced AFC ("Android" First Class). Has only one eye. Uses the phrase "Calamity and woe!" to identify problem situations for Bucky and his crew-mates.
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Developer(s) Konami
Publisher(s) Konami
Director(s) K. Wada
Producer(s) S. Kido
Programmer(s) E. Wada
Hisao Koyama
Takuya Ando
Artist(s) Hiroshi Iuchi
Noriyuki Yokoki
Tetsuhiko Kikuchi
Writer(s) K. Kinugasa
Composer(s) Norio Hanzawa
Hideaki Shikama
Koji Kazaoka
Kazuhito Imai
Platform(s) Arcade
Release September 1992
Genre(s) Beat 'em up, Run and gun
Mode(s) Up to 4 players simultaneously
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