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[[caption-width-right:350:Get [[JustForPun a-head]] in life ''and'' death!]]
''Decap Attack'' was a weird PlatformGame developed by Creator/VicTokai and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis[=/=]Mega Drive in 1991, and probably the only game in existence which starred a headless mummy. However, it began its life as a totally unrelated Japanese game called ''Magical Hat Flying Turbo Adventure'', based upon the {{anime}} ''Magical Hat''. When it arrived at the USA and Europe, it became a wacky monster adventure set in an island shaped like a skeleton body.
The story is, as always, pretty simple: the demon Max D. Cap emerges from the underworld and breaks Body Island into seven parts. MadScientist [[PunnyName Frank N. Stein]] creates a headless mummy named Chuck D. Head for the sole purpose of trying to defeat Max and rescue the island.
''Decap Attack'' was a weird PlatformGame developed by Creator/VicTokai and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis[=/=]Mega Drive in 1991, and probably the only game in existence which starred a headless mummy. However, it began its life as a totally unrelated Japanese game called ''Magical Hat Flying Turbo Adventure'', based upon the {{anime}} ''Magical Hat''. When it arrived at the USA and Europe, it became a wacky monster adventure set in an island shaped like a skeleton body.
The story is, as always, pretty simple: the demon Max D. Cap emerges from the underworld and breaks Body Island into seven parts. MadScientist [[PunnyName Frank N. Stein]] creates a headless mummy named Chuck D. Head for the sole purpose of trying to defeat Max and rescue the island.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Get [[JustForPun a-head]] a-head in life ''and'' death!]]
''Decap Attack''was is a weird wacky PlatformGame developed by Creator/VicTokai and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis[=/=]Mega Drive UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis for the Western markets. It arrived in 1991, North America in September of 1991 and probably in Europe it hit the only game market in existence which starred November that same year. ''Decap Attack'' is a headless mummy. However, it began its life as a totally unrelated DolledUpInstallment of the 1990 Japanese game called ''Magical Hat Flying Turbo Adventure'', based upon on the {{anime}} ''Magical Hat''. When it arrived at The change came about because Vic Tokai failed to secure the USA and Europe, it became a wacky monster adventure set in an island shaped like a skeleton body.
''Magical Hat'' license outside Japan.
Thestory is, as always, pretty simple: the demon Max D. Cap emerges from the underworld and breaks Body Island Island, an island shaped like a skeleton body, into seven parts. MadScientist [[PunnyName Frank N. Stein]] Stein creates a headless mummy named Chuck D. Head for the sole purpose of trying to defeat defeating Max and rescue saving the island.
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A curiosity of ''Decap Attack'' is that it was released in the same year advertisement began for ''Adventure of the Mummyhead'',[[note]]The Japanese title is in the English language.[[/note]] a game by Taito for PC Engine also about a head-throwing mummy. It was first mentioned in July 1991, advertised extensively in magazines, and the Oct.-Dec. 1991 issue of ''Taito Tigers'' features screenshots and gameplay information. The focus on the in-game date of Friday the 13th in December suggests the game may have also been meant to be out by that day, because December 13, 1991 was a Friday. However, nothing came of it and the game was, apparently, quietly cancelled. That ''Decap Attack'' and ''Adventure of the Mummyhead'' are related is not a question, but the how of it all is unknown. Incidentally, another headless mummy shows up, albeit as an antagonist, in 1997's ''[[VideoGame/MonsterSliderArcadeCabinet Monster Slider]]'' by Visco Games.
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A curiosity of ''Decap Attack'' is that it was released in the same year advertisement began for ''Adventure of the Mummyhead'',[[note]]The Japanese title is in the English language.[[/note]] a game by Taito for PC Engine also about a head-throwing mummy. It was first mentioned in July 1991, advertised extensively in magazines, and the Oct.-Dec. 1991 issue of ''Taito Tigers'' features screenshots and gameplay information. The focus on the in-game date of Friday the 13th in December suggests the game may have also been meant to be out by that day, because December 13, 1991 was a Friday. However, nothing came of it and the game was, apparently, quietly cancelled. That ''Decap Attack'' and ''Adventure of the Mummyhead'' are related is not a question, but the how of it all is unknown. Incidentally, another headless mummy shows up, albeit as an antagonist, in 1997's ''[[VideoGame/MonsterSliderArcadeCabinet Monster Slider]]'' by Visco Games.
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* DeaderThanDead: Chuck is already a reanimated mummy, but upon losing all of your VideoGameLives (which involves Chuck dissolving into the ground), the GameOver screen gives him... [[HolyHalo a halo?]]
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* DeaderThanDead: Chuck is already a reanimated mummy, but upon losing all of your VideoGameLives (which involves Chuck dissolving into the ground), the GameOver screen gives him... [[HolyHalo him a halo?]]halo.
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* PunnyName: Almost every name in this game is a pun of some sort. The main character is called "Chuck D. Head" ([[DontExplainTheJoke because he kills enemies by throwing a head at them!]]), his creator is named "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank N. Stein]]", and the BigBad is "Max D. Cap". The names of the various locations are all puns on the name of the body part they resemble, such as "Armington", "El Beau (''elbow'') Island", "Tibuland" (''tibula'') and so on.
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* PunnyName: Almost every name in this game is a pun of some sort. The main character is called "Chuck D. Head" ([[DontExplainTheJoke because he kills enemies by throwing a head at them!]]), them, his creator is named "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank N. Stein]]", and the BigBad is "Max D. Cap". The names of the various locations are all puns on the name of the body part they resemble, such as "Armington", "El Beau (''elbow'') Island", "Tibuland" (''tibula'') and so on.
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** A very loud, [[IllKillYou increasingly violent]] argument involving Chuck choking [[TheIgor Igor]] quickly changes gears changes upon [[HelloAgainOfficer the return of a Missing Persons official]], the former death grip now [[ItsProbablyNothing a friendly shoulder hold]].
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** A very loud, [[IllKillYou increasingly violent]] violent argument involving Chuck choking [[TheIgor Igor]] quickly changes gears changes upon [[HelloAgainOfficer the return of a Missing Persons official]], the former death grip now [[ItsProbablyNothing a friendly shoulder hold]].
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* AloofBigBrother: Chuck's "big brother" is fellow monster, [[ShoutOut Boris]]. However, Boris quickly grew bored with life at the castle and went off to become a film star.
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* AloofBigBrother: Chuck's "big brother" is fellow monster, [[ShoutOut Boris]].monster named Boris. However, Boris quickly grew bored with life at the castle and went off to become a film star.
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* ArtEvolution: The characters quickly evolve from looking close to their game designs to more exaggerated, wackier interpretations over the course of the first strip.
** Head's cheekbones change over time from protruding points to large hook shapes, as does his chin.
** Head's cheekbones change over time from protruding points to large hook shapes, as does his chin.
** The "Who Killed Chuck?" storyline features a full page dedicated to Stein performing a delicate surgery on a disembodied brain... with a large hammer. And the gameshow contestant is still in the dungeons.
** "Monster of the Year" has some unpleasant train passengers attempt to fight Chuck, disguised with Head as a normal person. When their leader knocks Head off Chuck's shoulders, they flee screaming in terror that they've just murdered someone.
** "Monster of the Year" has some unpleasant train passengers attempt to fight Chuck, disguised with Head as a normal person. When their leader knocks Head off Chuck's shoulders, they flee screaming in terror that they've just murdered someone.
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* SquashedFlat: The Decappers pass by a perfectly flat man who cheerfully discusses how he got run over by a steam-roller during their trip through Hell.
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** Chuck, Igor and Prof. Stein all have this reaction to the owners of the holiday home they're staying in trying to murder them.
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* ComicBookAdaptation: It had the longest-running of all the non-Sonic strips in ''ComicBookSonicTheComic''. Re-imagined as a loopy piece of surreal humour and puns which somehow managed to make the Sega game, itself wacky, look staid by comparison.
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* ComicBookAdaptation: It had the longest-running of all the non-Sonic strips in ''ComicBookSonicTheComic''.''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''. Re-imagined as a loopy piece of surreal humour and puns which somehow managed to make the Sega game, itself wacky, look staid by comparison.
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* RespawningEnemies: They appear when offscreen.
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* SolidClouds: Dark grey clouds are used as platforms.
