Cheetahmen II

Cheetahmen II was a video game produced by Active Enterprises as a sequel to one of the many games on its multi-game cartridge Action 52. It was not sold commercially at first, but finally went on sale in 1997; all 1,500 known copies of the game were located by Sean Roche in a warehouse in 1997; all were reused Action 52 cartridges with some having a small gold sticker reading "Cheetamen II." Thus the cartridge is very hard to come by. ROM images exist on the Internet.

There are three "Cheetahmen" in the game. They are named after figures from Greek mythology – Ares, Apollo and Hercules.

In Cheetahmen II the player assumes the role of one of the three Cheetahmen, and upon defeating an enemy boss at the end of the second level, they switch to the next Cheetahman for the following two levels as in the Action 52 version. Due to a bug it is impossible to gain access to the levels in which one assumes the role of the cheetahman Ares without altering the ROM image or being the lucky recipient of a glitch that very rarely starts the game on these two levels.

Cheetahmen II is famous for its lack of quality; it is reputed by many in the gaming community to be nearly unplayable. It is rumored to have been produced extremely quickly, with no debugging attempted.

Boom in Japan
Cheetahmen series (especially Cheetahmen II) has recently been gaining popularity in Japan since a movie file was posted to NicoNico-Douga, a streaming video website, because of its extraordinarily poor quality and disproportionately cool music. Many users are arranging its BGM for various kinds of music. These postings on the website amounted to more than 100 works within a few days after the first one.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu