1995 · Action · Adventure

Go! Go! Ackman

Nintendo exclusive

Go Go Ackman is a maze runner for the Game Boy based on the Manga with the same name. It is the only video game adaptation of the franchise that is not a platformer.

Released: 25 August 1995
Platforms: Game Boy SNES
Genres: Action Adventure Arcade Comedy Fantasy
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Fantasy
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

About

Go! Go! Ackman (Japanese: ゴーゴーアックマン, Hepburn: Gō Gō Akkuman) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was published irregularly in V Jump for 11 chapters from July 1993 to October 1994.

Go! Go! Ackman is a humorous series about a demon child named Ackman who harvests souls for the Great Demon King. It was adapted into an animated short film and several video games.

Keywords

maze
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Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

Ackman, a short demonic child, wakes up after a 50-year nap. Since he is now 200 years old, his parents explain that it is time he starts killing humans and selling their souls to the Great Demon King. Gung-ho about killing, Ackman ends up spending most of his time wandering around looking for goodhearted young women to kill as their pure souls are worth more, only to be embarrassed after finding out that they are actually immodest.

Ackman's nemesis Tenshi-kun, a Cherub-like angel who thought he was dead, is shocked to find Ackman has started killing. Tenshi-kun repeatedly tries to kill Ackman throughout the series but fails miserably. One example is him trying to hit Ackman with a missile, but missing and killing a school bus full of school children. Upon learning of Ackman's weakness to bawdiness, Tenshi-kun hires a stripper, which works, until the stripper is revealed to have a penis.

Reception

Reviewing Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater for Anime News Network, Christopher Farris singled out Go! Go! Ackman for being "very entertaining and funny all the way through." The Game Boy video game received a rating of 26/40 by Famicom Tsūshin.