♪ Catch me if you can! Catch me if you can! ♫”
— Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan: Stuntmaster is a 2000 video game for the PlayStation developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Midway Games, starring Jackie Chan as... Jackie.
The game's plot is as easy as the films starring the same actor: Jackie, a delivery boy, receives a "mysterious package", but before he can open it, his grandfather gets abducted by a local crime boss, Dante, who demands the package from Jackie as ransom. On a rescue mission, Jackie will travel across several levels set in New York, including Chinatown, the waterfronts, sewers, rooftops and finally confronting Dante in his penthouse.
Along the way, Jackie can collect several Red Dragon heads, important MacGuffin artifacts that can give him access to a secret level after the game is over.
Here's the same page, in Spanish.
This Game contain examples of:
- 1-Up: Jackie can collect extra lives in hard-to-reach secret areas, which are depicted as black clapperboards.
- Acrofatic: Most of the bosses, including the Chef, Terry Clown, and Dante, are HUGE in size, and puts up one heck of a fight against Jackie. It's very likely a homage to the various Giant Mook opponents Chan have to face in many of his films.
- Actor Allusion: Well, you are playing as Jackie Chan, after all...
- The tent-drop from rooftops is a clear Project A homage.
- Jackie fighting on a train, much like the climax of Super Cop. But this time without Michelle Yeoh's help!
- The Chinatown kitchen fight seems to be lifted from the first Rush Hour.
- The Shaolin Temple level, an all-too blatant reference to The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (what with Jackie going through the monks and training through the obstacles). He even gets a power-up in the form of alcohol, just like Drunken Master!
- Advancing Wall of Doom: Jackie will face loads and loads of these in various levels. Trucks pursuing him in a narrow alley, railroads with subway trains, out-of-control vehicles...
- All Monks Know Kung-Fu: The Shaolin monk mooks in the Secret Level certainly does, which Jackie have to defeat to gain access to the temple's inner sanctums.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: By collecting all the Golden Dragons, not only does Chan get to access the Shaolin Temple level, but he can unlock his Drunken Master outfit from the movie of the same name, which players can wear instead of his white shirt if they chose to replay levels.
- Apologetic Attacker: Jackie, in several fight scenes, often tells his opponents that he "doesn't want to hurt anyone" or they should "sit down and discuss this as two gentlemen."
- Carry a Big Stick: Barney, the burly second boss in the waterfront level. Who uses a steel i-beam during his battle.
- Chef of Iron: The very first boss of the game is a chef who beats up Jackie using ladles and saucepans. Luckily his kitchen has food, which Jackie can collect to replendish health if his life is dangerously low.
- Damage Sponge: Jackie has an average-sized healthbar. The bosses on the other hand have healthbars that stretches from one end of the screen to another.
- Dance Battler: One of the last few bosses, a Disco Dan conveniently named Disco Danny. He fights with dance moves and is surprisingly fast on his feet, and is a Lightning Bruiser of a boss.
- Fighting Clown: Terry Clown, the third boss. Ever seen Jackie Chan fighting a burly clown wearing boxing gloves?You will in this game.
- Gotta Catch Them All: Each level contains ten Red Dragon heads, and collecting all of them grants Jackie a Golden Dragon (it's difficult, some of them are quite well hidden or are placed in hard-to-reach corners prompting players to go Screw This, I'm Outta Here). It's NOT compulsory to collect all the Golden Dragons and players can defeat Dante and save grandpa without finishing this task, but doing so Jackie can unlock the Secret Level, the Shaolin Temple.
- Hand Stomp: One of the cut scenes in the rooftop stages have Jackie slipping and Hanging by the Fingers, just as a mook stomps on his hands causing Jackie to fall to a lower balcony, through a bunch of tarps, before landing in a crumpled heap. It doesn't change his life in any way and Jackie goes back none worse for wear after the cutscene.
- High-Voltage Death: Dante the Final Boss is defeated using this method in the final penthouse stage. After a lengthy fight, Jackie emerged victorious, releases his tied-up grandpa, before grandpa shouts a warning. Turns out Dante isn't quite defeated yet, and lunges at Jackie, but Jackie then backflips Dante through the penthouse's television panels. (This particular moment gets spoofed in the Hilarious Outtakes with Jackie getting flatted by the huge Dante and someone shouting "CUT!" in the background).
- Hilarious Outtakes: Jackie Chan does this all the time to the extent that a video game in his likeness has them too!
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Jackie's health is replendished by eating food. Milk only adds a tiny fraction of health, while rice can restore nearly half. Noodles, being Jackie's Trademark Favourite Food (if the opening cinematics is an indicator) can bring Jackie's health from near-kaput to maximum.
- Improvised Weapon: Being a video game starring Jackie freakin' Chan... tables, chairs, buckets, paintbrushes, brooms, pots and pans, basically Jackie can turn any object he grabbed into weapons.
- Justified Extra Lives: If the final cutscene is any indication, and that the extra lives are clapperboards, that means the entire game is just a movie starring Jackie as the main actor, and each of Jackie's "deaths" are just another take.
- Railing Kill: Well, he's not "killing" anyone, per se (it's Jackie Chan, nobody dies from a punch) but Jackie can pull this off on opponents in areas with railings. It becomes really convenient in the waterfront level where Jackie can just toss mooks into the water.
- Railroad Tracks of Doom: In the waterfront and subway levels, Jackie ends up landing on a set of railways. And then, comes the sound of an approaching train...
- Roaring Rampage of Rescue: The game's plot is kicked off by Jackie's grandfather being abducted by Dante and his lieutenants, and Jackie have to track down and defeat them one-by-one to get his grandpa back.
- Roofhopping: The rooftop levels, naturally, have Jackie leaping through the roofs of New York's buildings, and risk losing a life if he didn't quite make the jump.
- Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Jackie Chan is about to kick the player through the game's cover.
- Secret Level: The Shaolin Temple, accessible if Jackie managed to collect ten Golden Dragons. This 100% Completion task is perfectly optional though.
- Traintop Battle: The subway levels have Jackie fighting mooks while atop a moving train, and then jumping to an adjacent train when a tunnel approaches. The entire sequence is as frustratingly difficult as it sounds.
- Unique Enemy: There's a handful of kitchen staff in red during the Chinatown fight who attacks Jackie in one specific area in the first level, and nowhere else.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Terry Clown, the third boss, provides a far more difficult fight than the Chef or Barney, with his life bar being noticeably tougher to deplete, and his Acrofatic moves hitting faster than the previous two. What makes him a headache is that he's also assisted by a mime who can lock Jackie in position, so Jackie have to move real quick to prevent getting pummeled to scrap by Terry.
