Chakan: The Forever Man is a Sega Genesis game published by Sega of America January 1, 1992. The game featured an uncommonly dark premise for the time of its release, which saw the home console market flooded with licensed (often from children's cartoons) platformers.

The game follows the tale of a man who was so cocky that he declared even Death couldn't best him in battle. Of course, Death appeared and challenged Chakan with a proposition. If Chakan could defeat him, he'd be granted with eternal life. If Chakan lost the match, he'd become Death's eternal servant.

The battle raged on for days and the ultimate victor is very clear. While Chakan defeated Death eventually, he was shackled to an existence of eliminating all supernatural evil. Chakan won't be granted rest until the task is finished.

It is based upon a comic book by Robert Kraus and was produced by Ed Annunziata , who met Chakan's creator at a convention and was impressed.

Related games

A Game Gear game by the same name was published by Sega. It features very similar gameplay, but different level layouts and other changes to accommodate the less adequate hardware.

A sequel was planned and developed somewhat by Ed Annunziata's studio AndNow , but no new information about the project has been released since 2001. It was planned to be released for as many current platforms as possible, according to Ed Annunziata himself in an interview with SegaFans during May of 2001.

External links

RAK Graphics' Chakan Site - Official website for the Chakan comic.
GameFAQs Chakan: The Forever Man page
SegaFans - Direct link to May 2001 interview with Ed Annunziata.
A Chakan poem
AndNow.net