This is a mythologically-themed gladiator game with simple controls, allowing players to move left and right, jump, and attack. Players choose one of two human fighters, who must overcome eight terrifying and monstrous fantastic opponents (eg. dragon, wizard, scorpion-man) in the ring to win a tournament and rule the kingdom for one year. Between bouts, players can visit a store and upgrade their equipment, granting them different health, range and damage bonuses. A second player can join in at any time to challenge the current player, but only the winner can proceed in the tournament.
This game is succeeded by Mutant Fighter.
Mad motor is a 2D side-scrolling biker-themed beat 'em-up game that puts players in the shoes of a motor driver on a highway.
You have to beat-up enemies driving different types of motors and cars as well enemies on gliders. Bosses include a apelike boss hanging from an helicopter and a guy standing on top of a car in full Japanese armor. You can transform in to a more powerful hulky long haired guy on a tricycle motor. The background scenery includes, cities, deserts and forests. You can play solo or with a friend.
HE'S THE MEANEST SON OF A SNAKE YOU'VE EVER SEEN!
HE'S THE HUMAN KILLING MACHINE
CARVE OUT A PATH OF SAVAGE DESTRUCTION AS YOU BATTLE TO
STAMP YOUR SUPREMACY OVER A MULTITUDE OF OPPONENTS.
Face Igor the Fearless and his rabid dog amongst the sacred Temples of
Moscow. Don't be fooled by ladies of the night, Maria and Helga, streetwise
and toughened in the seedy underworld of Amsterdam. Match the cunning
guile of Miguel, master bullfighter and the unvanquished fighting bull Brutus
in the splendid surroundings of the Barcelona bull stag. Trade blows with
the awesome Utan Hana and his drunken compatriot outside a German
beerhouse. Finally confront the merciless terrorists of the Middle East
among the battle torn ruins of Beirut.
Tough and mean ... you're the HUMAN KILLING MACHINE!
Street Fighter was ported under the changed title Fighting Street for the TurboGrafx-CD and released with an arranged soundtrack. Due to the lack of a six-button controller available for the TurboGrafx-16 at the time this version was released, the strength level of the attacks were determined by how long either of the action buttons were held down.
Reikai Doushi: Chinese Exorcist (Priest of the Spirit World: Chinese Exorcist), released outside Japan as Last Apostle Puppet Show, was an arcade fighting game released by Home Data in 1988. This was the first fighting game to use digitized sprites, motion capture animation, and claymation.
Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax is a video game first published in 1988 for various home computers. It was also released as Axe of Rage in North America. The game is the sequel to Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior (Death Sword in North America), which was published in 1987. In Barbarian II, the player controls a princess or barbarian character, exploring the game world to locate and defeat an evil wizard. The game's plot is an extension of its predecessor, although the gameplay is different. While the first game offers two players the opportunity for virtual head-to-head combat, the second is solely a single-player adventure with fewer fighting moves.
A sideways scrolling beat-em-up game. Evil roamed free in the lands. Zorg 'The Master of Kin', took his wife to temple and before kissing her, suddenly the evil sorcerer Zangar came and invaded the place and took his wife kidnapped towards his castle. The knight Zorg begins his quest in the outlands of the Kin domain to rescue his wife from the enemy hands.
After a long journey over the seas, Ninja Hamster has come home to find his village being terrorised by a gang lead by Sinister Rat and The Lizard of Death. In this beat-em-up you must fight six members of the gang as well as the two leaders, one by one to save your village. The game is viewed from the side with the whole level shown on the screen. With a joystick or keyboard you use the fire button and a direction of the joystick/keyboard to pull off various kicks to hurt your opponent. Each fighter has a energy bar and an apple and when either is hit then their bar decreases but the bar will keep increasing when not hit. Once the bar is empty then the losing fighter is knocked down and part of his apple is removed. The winner of the fight is the fighter who removes the whole of his opponents apple. If you win then you move on to the next fighter. There is a two player option where the two players fight each other but both have two apples.