A Treasure gem brimming with humour and ideas, starring a hero with countless interchangeable heads. Colourful, zany and demanding, a true cult platformer.
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Category
Platformer1 player7+
Description
Puppet Headdy battles king Trouble Bruin in this Treasure Mega Drive action platformer. Published by Sega, released in Japan in August 1994. Creative platformer with Headdy throwing his head as a projectile, spectacular Trouble Bruin bosses and exceptional visuals.
Dynamite Headdy review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
Treasure builds a puppet theatre where everything is stage set: curtains rising, platforms sliding, stagehands visible in the flies. The hero changes head at will and each model has its own silhouette, while the bosses unfold as articulated mechanisms that fill the screen.
The accompaniment follows the logic of the show: a solemn overture, act themes for each number, pit music resuming between tableaux. The arrangements are dense, with marked countermelodies and frequent metre changes, in the image of a staging that never sits still.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Engaging"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Long"
Technical info
💾1,3 MB📅05/08/1994
Published by Sega
Dynamite Headdy (Mega Drive) price, value & rarity
Japanese edition of Dynamite Headdy, a wildly inventive Treasure platformer whose hero can swap heads at will. Its collector interest comes from the studio's prestige, every Mega Drive game of which is closely followed, and from a few differences specific to the Japanese version, deemed more generous and less toned down than the Western releases. That reference-edition status for purists makes it a favoured target for Treasure collectors.
Memorable bosses
Beneath its puppet-theater veneer, this Treasure platformer hides guardians of wild inventiveness, toppled by hurling your own head at them. Every fight tips into visual delirium: shifts in scale, sets that come alive and bosses that transform without warning. Unbridled staging and a flood of ideas give these duels a rare whimsy, unmistakably the studio's own.
