8 Eyes

8 Eyes is a side-scrolling adventure in which you control Orin the Falconer and his fighting falcon, Cutrus, as they seek to recover eight powerful jewels and prevent another atomic war. It includes a simultaneous cooperative mode for two players and password-based level selection.

The eight jewels

After a nuclear war, mankind rebuilt the world under the Great King, who used the power of the 8 Eyes. These jewels formed in the stellar centers of eight thermonuclear blasts and hold all earthly power. A confederation of dukes banishes the King and takes the jewels; their infighting threatens to plunge the world into atomic war.

The dukes' fortresses

As Orin, one of the King's Guardsmen, you and Cutrus enter the keeps of the dukes to retrieve the jewels. You fight their mercenaries as well as living skeletons, giant wasps, mud men and other mutated horrors, then defeat each fortress's monstrous Boss to claim the Jewel it guards. Returning all 8 Eyes to the Altar of Peace brings Earth another millennium of peace and plenty.