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30 Day Video Game Challenge [message #109750] Sun, 08 September 2013 11:45
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Urban Champion

62bitgaming:

Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game

So… My guilty pleasure game is not a very good game. I guess that’s how it SHOULD be right?

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You ever play Urban Champion on the NES? It’s not a great game. Heck, it might not even be a good game. But dagnabbit, I love this sucker.

It is THE incredibly basic fighter. You have light punch and hard punch, high and low version of both. You are vying for position and trying to hit your opponent into the next screen - eventually pushing him all the way into an open manhole that leads to the sewers below. Light punch is fast and knocks back very little, hard punch is slow and knocks back a lot. You can block by holding back, but be careful! If you hold back and your opponent holds forward you step back and they step forward, which is just as bad as getting punched!

I find this game to be absolutely hilarious. It is so innocent in it’s “toughness” that I just fall in love with it every time. You are fighting for your turf as one of two characters. You either have green sleeves with red pants, or red sleeves with green pants, and you knock your opponents down into open manhole covers to win! How awesome is that! Occasionally people living in the apartments above whatever store is on the bottom floor of the block you’re fighting at (which changes as you move forward or backward) will throw potted plants at you - getting hit by these can stun you and cause your opponent to gain some serious ground.

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BUT WAIT - the BEST part of this game to me is that if you take TOO LONG to knock your opponent back the POLICE drive by. The characters (obviously some hooligan tough guys) hear the sirens and split up, going to opposite sides of the screen. Once they are there they begin to WHISTLE and pretend that there is nothing going on! As soon as the police car drives away they get right back into their fight!

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THAT is SO funny to me! I love it!

If you, yet again, take too long and the time actually runs out, the person who had lost the most ground actually gets arrested, and the other player moves on!

When you win on a stage the people above come into play yet again, this time celebrating your victory instead of bombarding you with potted plants.

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It is hilarious, it is mediocre, but it is also very amusing and charming to me.

SO WHO’S UP FOR AN URBAN CHAMPION TOURNAMENT?!

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