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Just for fun, I decided to ramble about a few forgotten but fun bosses from less well known titles. These are not always forgotten gems, but often still worth remembering. Saying the series Bucky O´ Hare did not have the success, the creators wanted, would be an understatement. The cartoon series ended after one short season, the toy line ended very quickly as well, not even all the main characters got toys and the comic series was over just as quickly. But while this series has only spawned two games, both are genuinely great. The arcade game is a very entertaining Beat ‘em Up with some gun blasting action at it was made by Konami who had an amazing track record with arcade games of that kind. The one I want to talk about is also made by Konami but for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is also a genuinely impressive game by a company who had utterly mastered the console by this point. It really helps that this game came late, so they could basically use all their experience

Time to finish my weirdly specific theme: Bosses that are forgotten because most haven’t seen them, even if they own the game. In short: these are either too hard to reach, too annoying to reach or in the worst cases: both. Today as the last part of my very specific marathon I’ll talk about a game in which you will also likely never see the true final boss because it is incredibly hard. But unlike with the previous ones, this time it is worth it. This little gem is named Contra: Shattered Soldier for the PS2. It was made by Konami and it is incredibly hard. Not much of a shock considering this franchise but this is easily one of the hardest games on the PS2. Yet at the same time it doesn’t feel as unfair as it should. You will die in one hit, lives and continues are limited and there are a ton of difficult parts in the levels and especially with the bosses. The bosses are complex, have multiple parts and phases and will often pull out a new nasty trick when you thought that you had

Time to continue my weirdly specific theme: Bosses that are forgotten because most haven’t seen them, even if they own the game. In short: these are either too hard to reach, too annoying to reach or in the worst cases: both. Ah, good old Rayman. A long run series and the very first game came out on pretty much anything back then. It was on PC, on the Playstation 1, on the Sega Saturn and even on the Atari Jaguar. Later on it would also come out on Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DSi (that handheld had a download service that did include a version of Rayman) and finally it also came out on Android like probably about 60 % of any other game ever made. It is a bright and cheerful game, full of colors, a main character with a joyful smile and also pure and undiluted hatred towards the player. One of these things is not like the others. It is visually a fine testament that we should have kept 2D games at least one generation longer before moving on to 3D games. This is easily one of the best