Urban Champion - (NES) - Gameplay
3Extra! I just finished the Flintstones game I uploaded earlier today, when I came across this beauty and figured I could a quick video on the gameplay. I haven't played a game like this in a while. It definitely feels like an early Nintendo game. Let's take a look at 'Urban Champion'!
'Urban Champion' was made by Nintendo and was released in North American on August 1986. But its Japan release was much earlier in late 1984. It's a two-player fighting game and its Japanese release actually pre-dates 'Kung Fu', so it's technically Nintendo's first fighting game.
The purpose of the game is to knock the other player into a sewer manhole. There is a 99-second time limit, and the player has a set limit of stamina (200 hit points). The player has two types of attacks: a light punch and a heavy punch. The light punch is weaker but faster and harder to block, while the heavy punch is stronger, but takes longer to pull off, is more easily telegraphed, and is thus easier to block.
Each punch costs the player 1 HP. Also, flower pots are occasionally dropped from windows, which will cost a fighter 5 HP and daze the fighter if they hit. When a player is knocked off the pavement, they advance to the next street. After every third fight, the opponent is knocked into a manhole, then the player has a brief celebration where a lady throws confetti from a window. The goal of the game is to reach the rank of Champion. Every three fights won, the player gets a specific symbol on the lower right corner; after five symbols are earned, they go to the next set of symbols. After 45 symbols (138 fights), they get the rank of Champion. In addition, a police car may pass by the fighting at any point in the fight which causes the players to return to their starting positions. If the timer runs out, the police will arrest the player closest to being knocked off of the pavement, meaning it is a default win for the other player for that round.
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