Rad Gravity is a space hero with an unusually large chin. He’s been tasked with traveling to eight different planets and locating the missing Compuminds – which connect to each other and share knowledge like a big interplanetary internet – to foil the evil wizard Agathos, who shut them down. The result is an action platformer in which each planet has a unique look. The most infamous of these is Turvia, a planet where gravity is reversed and everything on the screen is therefore upside-down. Rad Gravity never went down as a truly iconic NES release by any means, but any game with a trash planet called Effluvia can never be considered a waste of time.
The game’s manual includes a 14-page comic illustrated by Frank Cirocco, who was best known for co-creating Marvel’s Alien Legion series.
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