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sosage - 2012-11-14

One of those concepts that was to forward thinking for its own good. Totally flew under everyone's radar at the time.


kingarthur - 2012-11-14

This zooming in and out thing is nauseating.


Jet Bin Fever - 2012-11-14

yeah. It's a shame too, because this game looks amazing otherwise.


Old_Zircon - 2012-11-14

I got to play this once and I don't remember it being nearly as distracting as it looks.


Jim Quin - 2012-11-14

I played the absolute fuck out of this through MAME, and once utterly murdered the large black guy with metal fists by throwing a bowl of piping-hot soup in his face as the final hit of the round.


poorwill - 2012-11-14

I am a bit baffled as to why people liken this to Smash Bros. It's a shooter like Metal Slug or Elevator Action Returns or whatever. Is it the zooming?


Old_Zircon - 2012-11-14

It's that you select one of 8 or so characters and then fight against the remaining characters one after the other in a series of arena battles, I think. I don't know, I played it once in the arcade and maybe once in Mame.


sosage - 2012-11-14

It's the same concept as most arena fighters/smash bros. clones. You're battling the opponent and a platform based arena at the same time, while the camera perspective is not inclusive to just one player. The difference being that, yeah, this is more based around side-scrolling shooters than fighters/beat-em-ups.

Beard itching.


Old_Zircon - 2012-11-15

What's particularly interesting about this is that it came out five years before the original Super Smash Brothers.


poorwill - 2012-11-15

And over a decade after Joust!


Old_Zircon - 2012-11-15

True, but Joust didn't have characters. In retrospect this seems like an important step in that genre's evolution.


poorwill - 2012-11-15

Joust! totally had characters. You could choose to ride an ostrich - or a crane.


Maru - 2012-11-15

In technical jargon, a neato game.


gmol - 2012-11-15

What is with the "mode 7" tag?
This is an arcade game, AFAIK mode 7 was specific to the SNES.


Old_Zircon - 2012-11-15

I think so too, but it seemed like a good shorthand for "gratutious overuse of realtime bitmap scaling"


cognitivedissonance - 2012-11-15

They said it was a mistake to make a video game out of "Hugo".

And it probably was.


Prickly Pete - 2012-11-15

If Smash Brothers was a sidescroller it would be the Adventure mode from Smash Brothers.


Sanest Man Alive - 2013-07-01

Bernard White is slow but strong. Eve is fast but weak. Betty Doe is average. Nobody picks Dweeb.


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