Browsing all articles tagged with brawler.
Death and Return of Superman
The Hulk got one, Batman got one, Spider-Man got a few… it was well past time for Supes to have his own scrolling brawler. Play as five different Supermen to see which will ultimately protect (or destroy) Metropolis.
Werewolf: The Last Warrior
Okay, Bandai, you had your chance. I played Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein and they both sucked. Time to step aside and give Data East a shot at the monster-themed sidescrolling brawler genre with their grandly titled Werewolf: The Last Warrior. Surprisingly, “The Last Warrior” isn’t just an arbitrary tagline. According to the [...]
Outlander
In 1990, Mindscape released Mad Max for the NES, a mostly disappointing game already expertly reviewed by The J Man. Apparently not shaken by their first sub par offering, Mindscape went back to the well in 1992 for another stab at the Mad Max trilogy, this time on the 16-bit consoles. Thanks to the shockingly [...]
Renegade
One of my quasi-regular readers asked me what I was working on next for the site. I told them that I had been playing Renegade, the earliest of the real Final Fight/Double Dragon kind of brawlers. The conversation then went like this: Them: “Oh? How is it?” Me: “It’s kinda fun, but not really.” And [...]
Bad Street Brawler
Bad Street Brawler either had an ingenious, or clueless, marketing team. You see, Bad Street Brawler really is a bad street brawler. It’s even more funny when they print it right on the box. Interestingly enough, it seems to be a rehash of a Beam Software game from 1987, that Mattel must have bought out [...]
Bad Dudes
Bad Dudes is another one of those games where you stroll around, causing trouble and picking fights – a “fighting game,” if you will. As with most of Data East’s wares, this one began its life as a coin-op, and made the jump to just about every home system available. And as should be obvious [...]