213 · Bad Street Brawler

March 18, 2022 · 38 min

The city has gone wild! Chaos stalks the streets in the guise of new wave gangsters and motorcycle madmen. Only you can save the day. Only you are tough enough, fast enough, mad enough - and only you look good enough in gold spandex trunks to save the streets of our fair city from the swarms of human (and otherwise) vermin who threaten our grandmother's safety.

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Bad Street Brawler

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Show notes

Thug thrashing defender of freedom
NES Longplay
Introductions
- Are you fighting on Bad Street or are you just bad at street brawling?
Overview
- This is a beat em up
Gameplay
- With a name like Bad Street Brawler, what’s up with the carnival style music in the title screen?
- How does this fare as a beat em up?
  - What stands out?
- Your move set
  - The Force Moves - Duke knows 15, but can only use 3 per stage.
- Timer
- Unique setting in terms of enemies and stages you’ll see
  - The spy who opens his coat to reveal another smaller spy
- Duke throwing out all the weapons he collected at the end of the stage is great closure and scoring
  - But why do the point totals bounce of screen like a set of chattering teeth
- The Quotes between the stages
  - Maybe they’ll make a movie out of me
  - "Come fight beside me," I said to myself, and although it doesn't make sense, I held my own hand as a small sign of trust, and together I made my defense.
- The weird ending
  - The END BOSS is DUKE'S SENSEI!
    - Duke's sensei is an old geezer dressed in yellow with black head band.
    - Apparently he is scared crapless of Duke's mad skills because he brought a BAZOOKA to even the odds!!
  - The ending is this weird MS pain abomination with confetti
- The NES version was one of only two NES games specifically designed for use with Mattel's Power Glove.
  - The other is Super Glove Ball
Sequels and Spinoffs
- originally released for home computers as Bop'n Rumble
- Or Street Hassle in Europe
- Now here’s a weird piece of trivia
  - Last week Back to the Future
  - Beam Software will make Pt 2 and 3 on the NES
EGL
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