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Last Action Hero

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Control Jack Slater in side-scrolling combat and driving stages, fighting goons to reach each exit before time runs out.

Last Action Hero for SNES was developed by Bits Studios and published by Sony Imagesoft, released in 1993. This is the earliest commercial release of this exact game version on the SNES platform, and it is also the original release year for the game on any platform.


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Released
1993
Perspective
Side view
Visual
2D scrolling
Size
446.16 KB
Rating
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About Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero for the SNES adapts the film's premise into a hybrid action title. Its structure alternates between side-scrolling combat stages and driving sections, both presented from a two-dimensional perspective.

The combat levels loosely follow the movie's narrative, with scenarios drawn from both the fictional film world and the real world. Players navigate Jack Slater to an exit while a timer counts down, confronting assorted enemies who attack with weapons like bats, knives, and firearms. Defeating these foes is necessary to progress, and health can be restored by collecting movie tickets that appear. Each stage concludes with a boss encounter, featuring antagonists such as a helicopter and the primary villain, Benedict.

Between the brawling segments, driving sequences require Slater to maneuver a car to avoid obstacles and destroy enemy vehicles by using ramps to land on them. Brief cutscenes provide connective story tissue, though they do not strictly adhere to the film's plot. The gameplay presents a challenging pace, as players must manage both a depleting health meter and the constant pressure of the level timer.

Last Action Hero Screenshots

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Title screen
There are no policemen on the streets shooting at you in the SNES version.
No fair! Let me have that ax!
Cars can jump higher than in the Genesis version.
Jack has a powerful double kick in both directions.
Kill the gunmen first or you'll be dead in no time.
Opening Animation: Axe-wielding madman screwing up school reform? Send in the Governator and watch the gibs fly
!st Level: The entire game consists of Jack getting attacked by this knife-wielding loser and baseball-bat holding redneck over and over again
This screenshot makes it look like Jack's got cool Street-Fighter-esque flaming kicks, but no, it's just some jerk tossing molotov cocktails at you
For some random reason, the school's crawling with cop-hating thugs that want to smack you...
Jack Slater's big showdown with the Ripper
Another cutscene: I smell a gratuitous chase scene coming