Dynamite Headdy
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Developer: Treasure M2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributor: Ecofilmes (PT) Sega-Ozisoft (AU) Tec Toy (BR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: SMPS 68000 (Treasure) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action[1][2], Adventure[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dynamite Headdy (ダイナマイトヘッディー) is a Sega Mega Drive action platform game developed by Treasure and published by Sega. First released in Japan in August 1994 to positive critical reception, it has since developed a reputation as a cult classic, and is particularly celebrated for its stage-show presentation, advanced graphical effects, and whimsical, self-aware tone.
Contents
Story
“ | On-stage Rampage! The curtain is raised, and the Treasure Theater Show begins. The star of the show is Dynamite Headdy, the guy with the coolest head on stage. But danger lurks backstage—Trouble Bruin, a henchman of Dark Demon, stirs up trouble as he tries to do away with Headdy! But Trouble Bruin is small stuffing compared to Dark Demon, who strives to rule the world by converting the inhabitants into his evil minions! Most devastating are the Keymasters, who serve as Dark Demon's elite guard. | „ |
— US manual[28] |
The game stars Headdy, a heroic puppet with interchangeable heads who was captured, but was rejected and has escaped from incineration. He must defeat the evil Dark Demon, an evil emperor who wishes to take over the land of puppets. Along the way, he will encounter Heather/Fingy, a mysterious female puppet who collects the keys that Headdy recovers from defeating Dark Demon's Keymasters, and Trouble Bruin/Maruyama, a bear doll who lurks backstage to pursue Headdy at every turn possible in order to defeat him and take over the show.
Gameplay
As a platformer, Dynamite Headdy sees the player travel across nine levels known as "Scenes", each of which are split into multiple levels. The core mechanic of the game is Headdy's head, which can detach from his body in eight directions for a variety of purposes, the most common of which is to attack enemies. Besides attacking, Headdy can also use his head to interact with other objects such as boxes and switches, or to grab on to HangMan to pull himself to high places or to bring platforms into reach. Headdy can also upgrade his head with many temporary Power Up Heads provided to him by HeadCase; Headdy can only use them for a short amount of time, but most of them can be cancelled at any time by pressing .
As a common staple of Treasure-developed games, the game has multiple bosses to fight, with Scenes even having multiple mini-bosses that appear at specific points. Major bosses, known as Keymasters, are encountered in the final level of each Scene, and a character named Beau will appear to indicate their weak points to the player. Secret Bonus Points are hidden all over each Scene in the game, and are found by meeting certain conditions such as defeating specific enemies or mini-bosses, destroying certain targets, or attacking Bino. Finding Secret Bonus Points only serves to increase the player's score at the end of each Scene.
Dynamite Headdy is known for its difficulty level, with the International releases being made significantly harder than the Japanese version. The game also uses a distinct graphical style to give the impression that all the events take place on a theatre stage, with many of the backgrounds designed to look like cheap cardboard sets. All the characters that Headdy interacts with are all living toys and puppets.
Items
Big 500 | |
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Awards 500 points. | |
Banana | |
Restores a portion of Headdy's health. | |
1-UP | |
Awards an extra life. | |
Continue | |
Several of these are dropped by defeated Keymasters. Collect 13 of them in the International version, or 10 in the Japanese version, to get a continue. |
Power Up Heads
Lotsa Heads | |
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Gives Headdy three heads to attack with. | |
Liberty Head | |
Sends Headdy to the Intermission bonus game. | |
Head Trip | |
A "power-down" that makes Headdy's head so heavy he can barely move, leaving him vulnerable to enemy attack. Cannot be cancelled. | |
Slammer Head | |
Doubles Headdy's attack power. It can also destroy blocks with hammer icons on them. | |
Pig Head | |
Gives Headdy a pig nose that can shoot homing projectiles at enemies. Hold for continuous fire. He cannot grab on to HangMan with this head. | |
War Head | |
Automatically sprays projectiles in eight directions all around Headdy. | |
Protector Head | |
Surrounds Headdy with a barrier of spinning fireballs that can damage enemies. | |
Spike Head | |
Allows Headdy to cling to walls and ceilings in order to climb them. | |
Empty Head | |
Makes Headdy invincible to most forms of damage. The only things it cannot protect him from are bottomless pits and hitting Heather by mistake in the Scene 7-1 boss fight. | |
Super Head | |
Makes Headdy move faster and jump higher, and increases his attack range. | |
Sleepy Head | |
Makes Headdy fall asleep to regain health. This can leave him vulnerable to attacks, however. | |
Pin Head | |
Shrinks Headdy down to half his size, allowing him to enter small passageways. Cannot be cancelled. | |
Bomb Head | |
Destroys all on-screen enemies and inflicts severe damage to bosses after pressing to throw it. If the Bomb Head is not thrown before it explodes, it will kill Headdy instantly. | |
Vacuum Head | |
Sucks in all nearby enemies and items when is held. Headdy cannot grab on to HangMan with this head. | |
Ticker Head | |
Stops time for a few seconds, allowing Headdy to repeatedly attack bosses while they're vulnerable. | |
Rocket Head | |
Allows Headdy to fly and shoot a piercing laser from his nose, but can only face forward. Appears only throughout Scene 6. | |
Air Head | |
Allows Headdy to fly and shoot streams of bullets in three directions, as well as allowing him to face forward and backward. Appears only throughout Scene 6. | |
Feather Head | |
Allows Headdy to fly and shoot a stream of birds from his beak, but can only face forward. Appears only throughout Scene 6. |
Scenes
Intermission bonus game
If the player picks up a Liberty Head in certain levels, they will be transported to the Intermission bonus game. This is a basketball style mini-game in which the objective is to use Headdy's head to hit the balls into the baskets marked with Star icons and reach a certain number of points. The ball machines at the bottom of the screen will provide an endless stream of basketballs to shoot, but they will occasionally fire bombs that will hurt the player. Once a ball touches the ground, it turns blue and can't be used. The hoops continuously scroll to the left, and each one is marked with an icon that has different effects:
Star | |
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These baskets must be shot at for points to clear the bonus game. | |
Basketball | |
Doubles the speed of which the ball machines will fire balls and bombs. | |
Slow | |
Slows down the hoops for a few seconds, making it easier to score. | |
Key | |
Destroys one of the ball machines, and therefore must be avoided. |
The bonus game will end in failure if both ball machines are destroyed, the player takes too much damage from bombs or they cancel the Liberty Head by pressing . After the bonus game ends, the player will be returned to where they found the Liberty Head.
However, if the player successfully makes the required number of shots, they will clear the bonus game and will be awarded a secret number, which they will need to use at the end of the game. The secret numbers earned from the bonus game are randomly generated for each playthrough. There are a total of four bonus games that must be played to get all four secret numbers, but there are only six opportunities in the game to play the bonus game. The number of points the player needs to score is increased by five for each successive bonus game, and bombs appear more frequently.
History
Legacy
Translation group M.I.J.E.T. restored and translated the cut dialogue in a translation patch made in 2007.
The game has also been released as part of the Wii's Virtual Console service, and was included in Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection, Sega Mega Drive Classics, and the Japanese and Western models of the Mega Drive Mini.
Versions
Localised names
Language | Localised Name | English Translation |
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English | Dynamite Headdy | Dynamite Headdy |
English (US) | Dynamite Headdy | Dynamite Headdy |
Japanese | ダイナマイトヘッディー | Dynamite Headdy |
Portuguese (Brazil) | Dynamite Headdy |
Version history
- Main article: Dynamite Headdy/Changelog.
System | Version | Size | Date | Comment | Ref | Icon | |
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4.1.1 | 148.9MB | 2020-01-09 | [29] | ||||
2.0.2 | 155.7MB | 2019-06-03 | [30] | ||||
2.0.0 | 2019-01-31 | [30] | |||||
1.2.2 | 2018-10-31 | [30] | |||||
1.2.0 | 137.6MB | 2018-08-06 | [31] | ||||
1.1.0 | 2018-05-08 | [31] | |||||
1.0 | 2018-04-18 | [31] | |||||
4.1.1 | 60MB | 2020-01-09 | [3] | (info) (59.54 MB)
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2.0.1 | 48MB | 2019-06-03 | [32] | (info) (48.23 MB)
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2.0.0 | 47MB | 2019-01-31 | [33] | (info) (47.41 MB)
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1.2.2 | 47MB | 2018-11-01 | [34] | (info) (46.72 MB)
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1.2.1 | 45MB | 2018-08-06 | [35] | (info) (44.98 MB)
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1.1.1 | 45MB | 2018-05-09 | [36] | (info) (44.98 MB)
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1.0.0 | 43MB | 2018-04-18 | [36] | (info) (42.96 MB)
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Downloadable content
- Main article: Dynamite Headdy/Downloadable content.
Production credits
- Main article: Dynamite Headdy/Production credits.
Digital manuals
Magazine articles
- Main article: Dynamite Headdy/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
- Main article: Dynamite Headdy/Promotional material.
Artwork
Sega Forever icon
Physical scans
83 | |
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Based on 37 reviews |
Technical information
- Main article: Dynamite Headdy/Technical information.
External links
- Sega of Japan Virtual Console pages: Mega Drive
- Nintendo catalogue pages: US, UK, AU
- Dynamite Headdy on Steam
- Dynamite Headdy on Google Play
- Dynamite Headdy on iTunes: US, UK
References
- ↑ File:Dynamite Headdy MD JP Box.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-20 09:51)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Google Play (com.sega.dynamite.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2020-05-02 23:52)
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 130
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 9 September 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 10
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 80
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Computer & Video Games, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-15), page 68
- ↑ Mega, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-29), page 52
- ↑ File:TheObserver UK 1994-10-23 189 .jpg
- ↑ File:DailyMirror UK 1994-10-28 Sup D.jpg
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "April 1995" (UK; 1995-02-28), page 36
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 http://www.nintendolife.com/games/megadrive/dynamite_headdy (Wayback Machine: 2017-06-25 00:05)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Virtual-Console-Wii-/Dynamite-Headdy--277050.html (archive.today)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/c6hDuIcxzUIMK7TqmLH6A-RaZjKnCtot (Wayback Machine: 2010-11-23 00:42)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/software/04.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-05 23:40)
- ↑ http://vc.sega.jp:80/vc_headdy/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-08-13 08:02)
- ↑ http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php?action=catalogue&prodcat_id=41&prod_id=19735&pageID=4 (Wayback Machine: 2012-04-03 02:02)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 https://steamdb.info/app/211201/ (Wayback Machine: 2017-05-22 17:12)
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 http://steamdb.info/app/211201/ (Wayback Machine: 2013-05-22 20:20)
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 https://steamdb.info/app/211201/history/?changeid=5755268
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 21.7 21.8 21.9 http://steamdb.info/app/211201/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-09-08 21:07)
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 @SEGAForever on Twitter (Wayback Machine: 2018-09-19 23:26)
- ↑ https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/article/f75139e8-8413-450e-9369-eba602eb0510 (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoAmerica on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoEurope on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoUK on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoAUNZ on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ File:Dynamite Headdy MD US Manual.pdf, page 4
- ↑ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dynamite-headdy-classic/id1324013989 (Wayback Machine: 2020-01-25 03:47)
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dynamite-headdy-classic/id1324013989 (Wayback Machine: 2019-10-20 22:14)
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dynamite-headdy-classic/id1324013989?mt=8 (Wayback Machine: 2018-09-19 23:32)
- ↑ Google Play (com.sega.dynamite.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2019-10-07 04:34)
- ↑ Google Play (com.sega.dynamite.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2019-04-08 22:35)
- ↑ APKPure (com.sega.dynamite.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2019-04-08 22:36)
- ↑ Google Play (com.sega.dynamite.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2018-09-19 23:21)
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 APKPure (com.sega.dynamite.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2018-09-19 23:36)
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 65
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- ↑ Consoles +, "Octobre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 120
- ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1994-11-09)
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "September 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 36
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 309
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 3, "" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 33
- ↑ Famitsu, "1994-08-12" (JP; 1994-07-29), page 40
- ↑ Freak, "11/94" (IL; 1994-xx-xx), page 1
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 12 December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 51
- ↑ GamePro, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 50
- ↑ GamePro, "Oktober 1994" (DE; 1994-09-30), page 50
- ↑ GamesMaster, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-22), page 52
- ↑ GamesMaster (UK) "Series 4, episode 7" (1994-11-01, 24:00) (+9:24)
- ↑ Games World: The Magazine, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-29), page 13
- ↑ Game Informer, "November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 16
- ↑ Game Informer, "October 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 82
- ↑ Joypad, "Décembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 54
- ↑ Mega, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-29), page 14
- ↑ Mega Force, "Décembre 1994" (FR; 1994-12-02), page 48
- ↑ Mega Fun, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-21), page 61
- ↑ Magazina Igrushek, "1/1996" (RU; 1996-xx-xx), page 52
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-30), page 74
- ↑ Next Generation, "Premiere Issue 1995" (US; 1994-12-08), page 105
- ↑ Player One, "Décembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 94
- ↑ Play Time, "11/94" (DE; 1994-10-05), page 104
- ↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, November 05, 1994" (UK; 1994-11-05), page 1
- ↑ Sega Magazine, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-15), page 84
- ↑ Sega Power, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-29), page 62
- ↑ Sega Pro, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-06), page 56
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Noviembre 1994" (ES; 1994-1x-xx), page 50
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 60
- ↑ Video Games, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-28), page 101
- ↑ VideoGames, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 78
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