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1989 · Tokai Communications · Adventure · Metroidvania
Clash at Demonhead
Nintendo exclusive
Clash at Demonhead is an open-ended platformer. The player takes control of Billy "Big Bang" Blitz, who is capable of running, jumping, and shooting. He is initially armed with a handgun, though various upgrades can be purchased from a shop. He later gains the ability to perform various powers by collecting Force, including shrinking, teleportation to previously-visited areas, flight, healing, and invincibility.
- Released
- 27 January 1989
- Platforms
- NES
- Genres
- AdventureMetroidvaniaPlatformerScience
- Developers
- Tokai Communications
- Publishers
- Tokai Communications
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Country
- Japan
- Age ratings
- CLASS_IND L
- Languages
- English, Japanese
About
Clash at Demonhead, known in Japan as Dengeki Big Bang! (Japanese: 電撃ビッグバン!, Hepburn: Dengeki Biggu Ban!; Blitz Big Bang!), is an action-adventure platform game released by Vic Tokai for the Nintendo Entertainment System on January 27, 1989 in Japan and December 1989 in North America.
Keywords
- aliens
- magic
- samurai
- metroidvania
- soldier
- fairy
- teleportation
- squirrel
- boss fight
- mind control
- shopping
- damsel in distress
Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Clash at Demonhead is an open-ended platformer. The player takes control of Billy "Big Bang" Blitz, who is capable of running, jumping, and shooting. He is initially armed with a handgun, though various upgrades can be purchased from a shop, such as the boomerang gun. He later gains the ability to perform various powers by collecting Force, including shrinking, teleportation to previously-visited areas, flight, healing, and invincibility.
The game is divided into a number of smaller stages, each representing a point on the over-world map. There are over 40 routes the player can take in the game, and the player must explore the world to progress. The game is non-linear in that the player can choose which direction they go, being allowed to backtrack and visit different stages.
Story
E. (Special Assault Brigade for Real Emergencies). He is contacted during a vacation at the beach with his girlfriend Mary to save Professor Plum, creator of a Doomsday Bomb capable of destroying the world. Bang soon encounters Tom Guycot, the skeleton mastermind behind the abduction, and he learns that the Doomsday Bomb is controlled by six medallions which have been distributed among the seven governors of Demonhead.
On his journey, Bang encounters Michael, who claims to be Bang's ally and tells him about a grieving sprite. Upon meeting the sprite, he learns of a captured hermit who teaches Bang various force powers upon rescuing him. While searching for the rest of the medallions, Bang repeatedly experiences strange mental discomfort.
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