Bio Challenge (1989, Atari ST)

Bio Challenge is a platformer developed by French company Delphine Software and published by Delphine Software (in France) and British company Palace Software (in the rest of Europe).

In the future, mankind has degerated to a point where humans can hardly move at all. To counter this development, scientists have developed a technology to place a human brain inside a robot body. In order to see if the cyborgs created this way are up to the task, a first test subject is sent through a series of tests. The only goal is to survive. Naturally, you take the role of the test subject.

There is no direct way of attack, but your robot can spin around to fend off smaller enemies. Larger enemies cannot be harmed this way, you can only crush them by dropping platforms onto them. Certain platforms can drop down after one or several "hits", meaning either perdorm a striaght, high next to them or performing a backflip when standing on a platform. Crushed enemies will leave behind power-ups and items. As mentioned before, you can perform very high jumps straight up, similar to Shinobi. Jumping next to a platform will also give it a push to the left or right respectively when it drops down.