Universal Soldier

Universal Soldier is a platformer developed by The Code Monkeys and published by Ballistic Entertainment, a subsidiary of Accolade. It came out on the Genesis and GameBoy, however a SNES version was planned but never got released, despite being finished. Universal Soldier is actually a movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Ralph Lundgren. The movie was a success in the box office, bringing in $12M. Critically however, it didn't do as well, having only a 35% on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite this, the series continued on until 2012, giving us decent movies like Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, and the dreadful Universal Soldier: the Return. As for the game, its actually a re-skin of the fantastic PC game, Turrican II. Turrican II never made it to the US, and Ballistic didn't know how well the series would do (A missed opportunity as Seika's Super Turrican from '93 was a huge success) so they smacked the Universal Soldier license on it, but ended up cancelling the game. A ROM of the finished version has been found, and I've made some decent progress in the game, and I think its actually quite decent, despite many critics calling it a halfassed port of the Amiga classic.