Mug Smashers - Suffer the Red Tornado - MCIHAD
3Disappointingly, this is not a game about Starbucks baristas finally tilting over the edge. Rather, it is a highly generic punch-men game in the vein of Two Crude Dudes, inter alia. Fittingly, Kyle regales us with his self-diagnosed fetal alcohol syndrome story- Nick already diagnosed him with mania, so why not- and of all the aggressive genericism this game vomits from the screen, the only thing that elicits interest is its vaguely worded and seemingly contradictory geological setting. This of course prompts Kyle to demonstrate his shocking lack of geographic literacy for a man who has been on five or so continents.Keith is still sick during this recording, so if you her him emit grotesque noises, there’s your excuse. In compensation, we take a little potshot at Buzzfeed. Nice.
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Mug Smashers looks almost exactly like cult favorite Combatribes, and even pilfers its soundtrack, but it was made by some fly-by-night Italian company that only ever released one other game, so I assume they had no affiliation with Technos and just hacked up or copied the Combatribes engine illegaly to make this game.
Even by arcade beat-em-up standards, its a pretty weird one. In broken English, we learn that Mr. Big of San Francisco's Chinatown (who is not at all Chinese by the way) is upset that a police woman has a dossier on him ... so he kidnaps her by tying her up and carting her off on a helicopter in broad daylight, right in front of our two heroes. So off goes Nacho Man and John Shaft the II in hot pursuit, through a few levels of standard beat-em-up fare, via a strangely circuitous route from San Francisco's Marina district all the way down the Embarcadero and then back around through the FiDi into Chinatown.