Knuckle Heads
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Gameplay
In the single-player tournament mode, the player's chosen character fights an opponent in best two-out-of-three matches with the CPU or against another human player, but when both are knocked out simultaneously in the first round, one of them will win the second round. The player has a character roster of six fighters to choose from, each with their own weapons and special techniques. After the player knocks out five different characters, the player must fight two opponents at once instead of one, for three rounds, and finally an "evil" solid-gold version of their own character, before their character's own ending sequence. The most notable features are the jump button, and multiplayer mode which allows up to four players to play simultaneously, but the multiplayer mode does not have an ending (much like Cosmo Gang the Puzzle, which was released earlier in 1992 and also ran on Namco's NA-1 hardware), and the closest a player can get to winning it is if they win ninety-nine times because that is when their "WIN" counter will roll over.
Characters
There are six playable characters and no bosses; all of them have their own unique statistics and special moves.
- Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (voice actor: Nobuo Tobita): Born in Honolulu, 1964, measures Script error: No such module "convert". high, and weighs Script error: No such module "convert".; he uses dual tonfas, and has the catchphrase of "I am No. 1!" when he wins.
- Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (voice actor: Toshiyuki Morikawa): From the game home country, he was born in Kyoto in 1967, measures Script error: No such module "convert". high, and weighs Script error: No such module "convert".; he uses a kusarigama, and has a catchphrase of Script error: No such module "Nihongo". when he wins. His ending reveals himself to be an undercover investigator of the ICPO.
- Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (voice actor: Script error: No such module "Nihongo".): Born in Athens in 1957, he measures Script error: No such module "convert". high, and weighs Script error: No such module "convert".; he uses a hammer, and a catchphrase "Gyahahahaha!".
- Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (voice actress: Megumi Hayashibara): Born Hong Kong in 1974, she measures Script error: No such module "convert". and weighs Script error: No such module "convert".; she uses a quarterstaff, and has the catchphrase "Yeah!" on a win.
- Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (voice actor: Nobuo Tobita, same as Vincent): Born in Lillehammer, 1953, he measures Script error: No such module "convert". high, and weighs Script error: No such module "convert".; he uses dual axes and a catchphrase "Hahahaha!".
- Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (voice actress: Kotono Mitsuishi): Born in São Paulo in 1969, she measures Script error: No such module "convert". high, but her weight is unknown; she uses steel claws, and a catchphrase "Come On Baby!"
Virtual Console release
The game was later re-released by Namco Bandai Games (as they are now known) on the Virtual Console in Japan on August 18, 2009.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Knuckle Heads on their April 15, 1993 issue as being the seventh most-successful table arcade game of the year.[2] RePlay reported Knuckle Heads to be the nineteenth most-popular arcade game at the time.[3]
See also
References
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- ↑ Knuckle Heads at the Killer List of Videogames
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External links
- Template:Trim Template:PAGENAMEBASE at the Killer List of VideogamesTemplate:EditAtWikidataTemplate:WikidataCheck
- Knuckle Heads at arcade-history
- Knuckle Heads at Fight-A-Base
- Knuckle Heads at Fighters Front Line
- Knuckle Heads at The Large Cult Fighting Game March Template:In lang
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- 1992 video games
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- Namco arcade games
- Video games developed in Japan
- Virtual Console games