You play as JR, a hotshot private eye visiting Cobra City. You meet with Faythe, a childhood friend, and must help her to solve a kidnapping. The game is divided into six city areas, which you must unlock one by one, investigating the crimes in the area and defeating the local gang leaders.

Cobra Mission is a rather crude Adventure/ RPG hybrid. You explore the city in a top-down perspective, visiting locations, talking to people, doing simple side-quests for money and searching for opportunities to ogle at naked ladies (such as peaking at a nude beach through a telescope).

The problem is that most of the time you'll be walking around aimlessly, with no clues whatsoever. And every few steps you'll be thrown into a random encounter. Moreover, some events must be done in an specific order or manner (including the sex scenes!), forcing retries and more aimless walking.

Combat is easy, but unique. To attack, you drag your cursor into the enemy part you want to hit each enemy has different weak points. You must do this repeatably and as fast as you can, while the enemy charges a power bar to execute his attack.

Oddly, the Japanese version has a standard JRPG turn-based combat. It was the team at Megatech who overhauled the combat and other parts of the game, adding more enemies, side-quests, sexy scenes and re-drawing many of the characters.

Still, Cobra Mission is very mediocre. Its appeal came from novelty – an erotic game drawn in anime style made in distant Japan. For a teenager in 1992, it was a new, exotic and slightly off-limits treat.

While standards are a bit higher today, it's still a style of game Western audiences aren't used to, and Cobra Mission's “so-bad-that-it-is-good” charm might just be enough to warrant a look.