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This is a fun beat em up by Technos from 1993 that looks awesome. Love the characters in this, and it has great art.

Taken from Hardcore Gaming 101 👇
When it came to beat-em-ups, Technōs was never content to simply rehash a formula again and again. They were always taking risks and experimenting with weird ideas, and there’s often a great deal of variation from game to game. Double Dragon was completely reinvented once in beat-em-up form (or twice if you count Double Dragon 3, which Technōs didn’t develop, but did port to NES), and Kunio-kun / Nekketsu High School has at least four very different incarnations throughout its half dozen beat-em-ups.

Double Dragon and Nekketsu High School make up the bulk of Technōs’ beat-em-ups, so it’s interesting to see what experimentation they did in other games. Their most well known “other” beat-em-up is called The Combatribes, which is kind of like a re-visitation of, and massive improvement on, the ideas they worked with in Renegade. Their only remaining beat-em-up is a virtually completely forgotten arcade game called Shadow Force.

Shadow Force‘s plot concerns an organization called Teaser that’s led by a guy named Mr. Wong, who looks kind of like Sigma from Mega Man X. He’s creating monsters to take over the world, and the four heroes are out to attempt to bring an end to his plans. Your quest takes you through chemical plants, forests, and across roof tops, before making your way through a very bizarre looking fourth level. At the end of the fourth level, you fight a giant monster that, after being defeated, swallows your character whole. The fifth and final level is then set within the monster itself. Either being swallowed by this thing reduces everything in size, or the monsters’ innards don’t answer to the laws of physics, because it’s absolutely huge in there. Even Mr. Wong makes an appearance at the end of the level, where he tells you that you’ll have to face his most powerful creation, which he strangely keeps hidden inside another of his monsters.

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