Black Touch '96 Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]
232Game Info
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Developer: DGRM
Publisher: DGRM
Year of Release: 1996
Game Review & Impressions
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Any game which comes with a disclaimer that the glitches and weirdness you're about to witness are entirely by design makes for instant "must play" material in my book, and so I finally decided to check out the absurdity that is Black Touch '96.
It doesn't take long to realise the game is a complete rip-off of Final Fight. The player characters, fighting moves, roster of enemies and much of the artwork are deliberate copies of those from Capcom's coin-op classic, shoehorned clumsily into a game which only just about works at a functional level. I don't know if the developers of this 'game' ripped the original sprites from a Final Fight arcade board and simply painted over the designs, or whether they were created from scratch, but the net effect is a cast of characters that look like they've tried to disguise themselves with cheap Halloween costume paraphernalia.
I wouldn't normally recommend bothering with stuff like this, but there's novelty value in just how stupid Black Touch '96 is, which makes it worth playing. Enemies glitch off the top of the screen, get stuck behind part of the scenery, or disappear entirely. The knock-off 'Poison' women masquerading as Geisha girls who literally take off their wigs and whack you with it are positively bonkers, and the weird overall-wearing, pipe wrench-packing dudes with oversized heads bedecked with little more than a couple of whisps of hair look like the net result of too much familial interbreeding. You also get some low-res anime girl pics as a reward for beating the boss of each stage, if things weren't weird enough already.
I couldn't find much information on DGRM, and apart from small number of Pool-style games, Black Touch '96 seems to be their magnum opus. It seems to have been released exclusively in Korea, but thanks to the Internet, the rest of the world can now enjoy the full weirdness of this glitched-up oddity.
Chapters
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00:00 Attract mode
02:11 Stage 1
05:52 Stage 2
08:59 Stage 3
14:32 Stage 4
18:04 Stage 5
24:17 Ending