Jun 23, 2025
Assault Suits Valken / Cybernator (SNES) (1992)
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Assault Suits Valken / Cybernator (SNES) (1992)
Scanned from Wolverine (1988 series) #71. Art by Tom DuBois.
Cybernator fanart by Guido Marinelli.
Cybernator aka Assaults Suits Valken got a new release on the Nintendo Switch. Shame I don't have a Switch to check it out. Which is a damn shame because all the extra stuff they’re including in the new release sounds pretty cool. Hopefully there’ll be a Steam port or someone might “liberate” that extra content.
Before anyone asks, the Valken and the Leynos here are from the Video Game Robotics toy line, an offshoot of the Shooting Game Historica line by Yujin.
MASSAGE interview with label head, Assault Suits
Interview with Assault Suits in Japanese magazine/blog, MASSAGE.
Touching on Flamebait’s interest in Japanese artists and a brief understanding of the label’s history so far as well as it’s immediate future.
Read: http://themassage.jp/en/flamebait/
22 September 2015
In this long-delayed feature episode of MisanthroPlay, Alvin Chua and Robert Fenner sit down to talk about NCS Masaya's influential Assault Suits series and the impact its had on the mecha platformer genre.
Starting in 1991 with Assault Suits Leynos (AKA Target Earth) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, the series strove to differentiate itself from its forebears. Previous mecha platformers used the genre as little more than window dressing; a game like UPL's Atomic Robo Kid could easily replace the eponymous Robo Kid with a flying human and not alter its gameplay; But NCS Masaya's games added a believable sense of weight and physics to its character movement that worked to bring the illusion of piloting a giant robot to life with very successful results. Just as the debut ofMobile Suit Gundam would see the "Real Robot" genre overtake "Super Robot" in terms of popularity, Assault Suitsarguably brought Hard SF to the platformer medium for the very first time.
In this episode, we discuss Assault Suits Leynos and Assault Suits Valken, as well as its spiritual successors Metal Warriors, Front Mission: Gun Hazard, Gigantic Army, Gunhound EX and the forthcoming PS4 remake of Leynos by Dracue. Unfortunately, we don't touch on Leynos 2 or Valken 2 as we were unable to obtain either of them.
Head on over to MisanthroPlay to have a listen.
Sinuous yet imposing metallic sculptures
Assault Suits | Statue Cathalogue
Free-flowing, unrestrained synth collisions and bliss unfold in this 3-track Flamebait debut release by label founder Assault Suits.
Download: https://flamebait.bandcamp.com/album/statue-cathalogue
Target Earth - Surprise (sega genesis)
