At the request of James Cooper (@GunRookie) I present to you a video walkthrough / playthrough / runthrough / etc of the NES game Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain.
This is the Japanese version of Shatterhand. You'll notice there's a few differences as this game has a circus stage which was replaced by another stage in the US version.
I don't get around to using all the little robo helpers, but I tried to use quite a few to show them off. You'll also notice while in the super armor form or whatever, you don't lose energy when hit, but time that you get to remain in that form.