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Players control the characters by jumping, dodging and attacking their way through legions of enemies. Because the main characters are muscle-bound brawlers, they have the ability to pick up objects well beyond their own weight (e.g. cars and traffic lights) to use as weapons. They can do the same to
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on their April 15, 1990 issue as being the seventh most-successful table arcade unit of the month. In Hong Kong, it was the top-grossing conversion kit on the
Bondeal arcade charts from March to April 1990.
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showing the player(s) punching a "Power Cola" vending machine causing sodas to fall out which they drink, those vending machines also featured in most stages as replenishment points.
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most enemies as well. While playing co-op, it is also possible for one player to pick up the other to use as a projectile.
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magazine placed the game at #37 in their Top Mega Drive Games of All Time.
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620:"Overseas Readers Column: Many Videos Unveiled At AOU Expo '90 Chiba"
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from Big Valley after a nuclear explosion the group caused.
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319:. Outside Japan, the port was released under the name
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373:versions of them were retitled
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307:(1988). The game was later
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818:15 April 1990. p. 25.
758:"Software A-Z: Mega Drive"
647:"ACME: New Product Review"
353:Ports and related releases
66:& Opera House (MD/GEN)
863:Killer List of Videogames
681:. No. 76 (May 1990).
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519:Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja
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709:. June 1990. p. 90.
602:"The Bondeal Chart"
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911:Sega Genesis games
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295:arcade game
292:beat 'em up
272:multiplayer
254:Beat 'em up
133:Platform(s)
114:Composer(s)
92:Designer(s)
86:Iwao Horita
82:Producer(s)
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832:, Oct 1992
763:Console XS
583:References
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202:April 1990
184:March 1990
118:Azusa Hara
858:Two Crude
852:MobyGames
847:Two Crude
399:Reception
394:Reception
347:cut scene
299:Data East
281:Two Crude
76:Data East
59:Data East
36:Two Crude
788:rating,
785:MegaTech
564:クルードバスター
560:Japanese
534:MegaTech
466:MegaTech
371:European
336:Gameplay
258:platform
249:Genre(s)
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61:(Arcade)
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500:called
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311:to the
264:Mode(s)
152:Release
146:Windows
651:RePlay
606:RePlay
388:G-Mode
309:ported
164:Arcade
138:Arcade
806:(PDF)
723:. IGN
678:Crash
623:(PDF)
547:Notes
507:Crash
418:Crash
411:Score
790:EMAP
729:2013
528:Mega
369:and
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228:1992
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