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Rent A Hero (English & Spanish) Sega Mega Drive

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Rent A Hero (English & Spanish) Sega Mega Drive

Complete · box + cartridge

€39.95
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  • Platform: Sega Mega Drive
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Original year: 1991
  • Edition: Complete · box + cartridge
Rent A Hero is an action role-playing game released by Sega in 1991 for the Mega Drive (known as the Genesis in North America). It breaks away from traditional turn-based combat with a dynamic battle system inspired by 2D fighting games, all wrapped in Sega's trademark humor. Step into the shoes of Taro Yamada, an ordinary young man who accidentally receives a powerful combat suit instead of a pizza and decides to become a hero for hire to pay it off, taking on missions across the bustling city of Corja. ✨ Features: • Action RPG with a real-time combat system inspired by 2D fighting games instead of turn-based battles • A humorous story following Taro Yamada and his accidental rise to hero-for-hire • Detailed open-world city of Corja with neighborhoods, universities, and arcades to explore • Smooth animation and thoughtful level design praised by critics • Fan translation with a fully translated manual, hints, and cheats, playable at both 50Hz and 60Hz 🎮 Language: English & Spanish · 📦 Edition: Complete (boxed, with manual, in protective case)

Rent-a-Hero: Sega AM2's Pizza Delivery That Went Wrong

Sega's in-house AM2 team, better known for arcade action, made an oddball role-playing game with a very Japanese sense of humour. Rent A Hero was released for the Mega Drive in Japan on 20 September 1991, with Yu Suzuki as producer and Keiji Okayasu as designer. It was never released in the West, and its charm was out of reach for English readers until fans translated it.

At a glance

  • Based on: Rent A Hero (Sega AM2, Mega Drive, 1991)
  • Created by: Sega AM2; producer Yu Suzuki, designer Keiji Okayasu
  • Released: 20 September 1991, Japan
  • Genre: Action role-playing game
  • What sets it apart: fights borrow the format of a 2D fighting game instead of turn-based battles

The premise

Taro Yamada orders a pizza from SECA, a thinly veiled wink at Sega, and instead gets a suit of Combat Armor delivered by mistake. To pay it off he takes work as a hero for hire, known as "Rent a Hero", in the city of Corja, taking odd jobs that suit his new suit.

What came after

  • The game reappeared on the Wii Virtual Console in 2007.
  • A remake, Rent a Hero No. 1, followed on Dreamcast in 2000 (developed by Aspect) and on Xbox in 2003 with online features. Reviews of the remake were strong: Famitsu gave it 30/40 and IGN 8.4/10, and its English release for North America was cancelled.
  • Taro also appears as an unlockable character in Fighters Megamix.
  • An English patch for the remake was released in 2023.

This edition is a fan-translated version of the original game, with English and Spanish text, a translated manual and a switch between 50Hz and 60Hz modes, according to the product description.

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