Set in the year 2030, a group of military renegades known as Metal Command, led by General Gus Grover, are seeking to conquer the world by building an army of cyborg soldiers. Steve Hermann, a young police officer from the Bronx, ends up losing both of his arms during a skirmish with members of Metal Command. After the incident, Hermann is offered two specially developed cybernetic arms developed by the Law an Order Regulatory Division (L. O. R. D) to replace the ones he lost. Herman accepts the offer and becomes an agent codenamed "Shatterhand," who is tasked with the mission to defeat Metal Command. Shatterhand is a side-scrolling action game that follos many of the established convensions in the genre. The main character's primary attacks are his very on fists, which he can also use to intecept enemy bullets. There are two type of power-ups that can be retrieved by destroying the item containers scattered throughout each stage: coins and letters. The coins are used as currency that allows the player to obtain additional power-ups by standing over a certain platforms and crouching over them. These platforms... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatterhand