Breaking Bad (SNES video game)

Breaking Bad is an action RPG game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the first game in the Breaking Bad franchise and was released in 1993 in Japan and 1994 in North America and Europe.
The story follows Walter White a dispirited high-school chemistry teacher who is struggling with a recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer. White turns to a life of crime and partners with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, to produce and distribute crystal meth to secure his family's financial future before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld. During the course of the game, the player controls Walter from a top-down perspective and navigates throughout the overworld, collecting methlamine, money and defeating enemies.
Breaking Bad was a critical and commercial success for Nintendo. The game sold over 6.5 million copies and launched a major franchise. A sequel, Breaking Bad 2: The Rise of Gus was first released in Japan for the SNES less than a year after its predecessor, and numerous additional successors and spinoffs have been released in the decades since its debut, including Breaking Bad 3: Fall of Heisenberg and Better Call Saul.
==Gameplay==
Breaking Bad incorporates elements of action, adventure, and role-playing genres. The player controls either Walter White or Jesse Pinkman from a flip-screen overhead perspective as they travel the overworld, a large desert map with various environments. The player begins the game equipped only with a Chemistry Flask, but is able to buy a gun later on. Throughout the adventure, the player finds and acquires various items that increase their abilities further, including Heart Containers which increase their life meter; bulletproof vests which decrease the amount of damage the player takes from enemy attacks; and Chemical Formulas which allow the player to inflict more damage to enemies.
The game is divided into seven "Chapters", the beginning of each letting the player choose from playing as either Jesse or Walter. In each chapter, players must cook a batch of meth, collecting Methlamine blocked by Thugs around the overworld. Inbetween every chapter, we also get cutscenes detailing the story of the game.
==Synopsis==
The story of Breaking Bad is described in the instruction booklet and the short cutscenes between chapters. Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad follows Walter White, a modest high school chemistry teacher who transforms into a ruthless kingpin in the local methamphetamine drug trade, driven to financially provide for his family after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Initially making only small batches of meth with his former student Jesse Pinkman in a rolling meth lab, Walter and Jesse eventually expand to make larger batches of special blue meth that is incredibly pure and creates high demand. Walter takes on the name "Heisenberg" to mask his identity. Because of his drug-related activities, Walter eventually finds himself at odds with his family, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) through his brother-in-law Hank Schrader, the local gangs, and the Mexican drug cartels (including their regional distributors), putting him and his family's lives at risk.
==Impact and legacy==
===Sequels===
*Breaking Bad 2: The Rise of Gus
*Breaking Bad 3: The Fall of Heisenberg
*Breaking Bad 4: El Camino
===Spin-Offs===
*Better Call Saul
*Better Call Saul: It's All Good Man!