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0🕹 VIGILANTE
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🕹 Game Name: Vigilante
📛 Alternate Names: Vigilante (US/arcade)
📅 Release Date: 1988 (arcade)
🔫 Genre: Beat 'em up / Side-scroll
👨 🏻 💻 Developers: Irem
👨 🏻 💻 Publishers: Irem / Data East (regions)
🔢 Max Players: 2
⁉ Cooperative: Yes
🕹 Game Introduction: A gritty street brawler where you play a lone vigilante rescuing a kidnapped girlfriend.
🕹 Game Description: Fast, punchy controls, enemy waves, weapons pickup (knives, bats) and boss gauntlets.
🎴 Game Play:
👉 🏻 Side-scroll stages with high enemy density.
👉 🏻 Use jumps, grabs and thrown weapons.
👉 🏻 Grab civilians for points and health in some versions.
📕 Background & History: Classic late-80s coin-op from Irem riding the beat-'em'up boom; notable for tight controls and urban noir art.
👓 Lonster's Review: Brutal, satisfying hits and fair checkpoints — great for short one-credit runs.
🎉 Trivia:
👉 🏻 Early example of weapon pick-up persistence.
🐣 Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs:
👉 🏻 Learn enemy spawn patterns to conserve lives.
👉 🏻 Use jump+attack to clear crowds quickly.
🌟 Legacy: Influenced later side-scroll beat-'em ups; a small cult classic for speedrunners and retro arcades.