Hey, RoboCop, you’ve got mechanical arms and a gun in your leg. Why’d you have to go and smash a perfectly good arcade game?
And it was pretty good. If you couldn’t make it out beneath all the broken glass and criminal hair, it’s Sly Spy, Data East’s 1989 side-scroller that took more than a few liberties with action movie and James Bond likenesses.
Middling action game it my have been, it also featured some amazing pixel art, like a shoot-out in the Lincoln Memorial and an outro that looks like it fell straight out of the latest series of Archer.
You can read more about Sly Spy below.
SLY SPY [VGJunk]
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