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Post by chibby on Feb 27, 2018 22:52:17 GMT -5
I bought this weird thing in the box on a whim when I was working at a Thrift Store (I paid maybe less than a dollar for it). It then was never played until Anayo came to visit. Oh man was this game bad. It was probably meant to be played with a light gun, but without it you couldn't properly aim at the outer left or right most portions of the map (you could scroll right to a point but the bad guy would always go just out of reach). Apparently there was something in the controls that we didn't know. Also I'm pretty sure you were required to blast the limbs off your opponents in like a predetermined order or you wouldn't win... If you feel bad for the bleeding dragon, instead feel worse for whoever is suffering through the experience on the other side. The game is also peppered with overt attempts at humor to break up the monotony of ending the life of competitors who have evidently lived for 5+ centuries. I can't tell if this last one is intentionally funny of if it's just so asinine that it is the only effort that crosses the line to being laughable. So if you couldn't already tell this game is mostly just bad. This ending sequence, however, is a jewel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdQO-NlHxFE
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Post by Ex on Mar 5, 2018 21:56:15 GMT -5
As lame as Death Duel is, it actually managed to stir up some controversy in its day. And so did TechnoCop. Both of those were by the same developer; Razor Soft. I'm too tired to try and find links about it, but some parental watch groups were pissed off about both of those releases. SEGA looked the other way though, because SEGA needed all the third party support they could get at that time. However, SEGA had enough when Razor Soft submitted Stormlord. There were originally supposed to be statues of nude women in Stormlord, but SEGA made Razor Soft put bikinis on the statues in the USA version. (The statues are not censored in the European version.) What's ironic is in SEGA's own self-developed and self-published Genesis game Mystic Defender, initial copies made it out the door with a fully nude woman in the game. In the original release of Mystic Defender there was indeed nudity at the end, when you save the princess she's stark naked! This was discovered by angry parents, reported, so SEGA made a second version with exactly the same packaging in which the princess is now wearing clothes.
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Post by anayo on Mar 5, 2018 22:03:40 GMT -5
This game gave me cancer.
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