An 1980s animation series based on a manga by Buichi Terasawa created in 1978 for Shonen Jump, Cobra took young viewers from Canal+, Antenne 2 and TF1 through space, who discovered an outlaw at superhuman strength, a lover of pretty girls and good cigars, whose artificial left forearm is capable of firing a powerful Delta ray that is coveted by space pirates. Currently in pre-production in a still undisclosed studio, this new game Cobra therefore does not yet have a release window and will probably not be unveiled for quite some time.
” We are delighted to be working on this adaptation of Cobra, a legendary anime that has marked millions of viewers around the world. We are committed to respecting the universe and the characters created by Buichi Terasawa, while offering an immersive gaming experience that is faithful to the spirit of the series. The Cobra game promises to be a great adventure for fans and players looking for a rich and captivating universe. “, welcomes in any case Stéphane Longeard, CEO of Microids.
Out of nowhere, it’s Cobra
Interestingly, the first adaptation of Cobra in video games was already the work of a French company, Loriciels, which signed in 1987 an action game not folichon released on microcomputers like the Amstrad CPC and the Atari ST. Most of the other adventures of the character, who owes his features to our national Bébel, were only released in Japan. Let’s quote the graphic adventure game Cobra: Kokuryū Ô no Densetsu, by Hudson Soft in 1989 on PC-Engine, whose cover from another era can be seen opposite. His sequel Cobra 2: Densetsu no Otoko released in 1991 and exceptionally translated into English in 1995 on Mega-CD under the title The Space Adventure – Cobra: The Legendary Bandit. On PlayStation, Takara adapted the series as a TPS in 1996 with Cobra: The Shooting before the license went to Sony Computer Entertainment to resume an interactive comic book format with a Cobra: The Psychogun published in two volumes then Cobra: Galaxy Knights in 1999. For the rest, it is mainly in the form of pachinko slot machines that Cobra and his naked girlfriends were solicited, but we can also mention Cobra: The Arcadea Namco game released in 2005 in the purest style of a Time Crisis.
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