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Bad Dudes
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Item Description
"The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?" Few games have ever had an opening line this perfect, and Data East's Nintendo Entertainment System conversion of its own arcade brawler plays the premise completely straight, which is exactly why it works. Blade and Striker, the Bad Dudes themselves, take to the streets against an entire army of ninjas, and every stage throws something new at them.
The fighting is simple to pick up and satisfying to master. Punches, kicks and jump kicks handle the endless waves of ninjas, knives and nunchaku turn up as pickups, and holding the punch button charges a burst of inner energy that blasts everything in front of you. The settings move fast, from city streets and the top of a speeding truck to the sewers, a forest and a moving train, before the final assault on the Dragon Ninja himself. The bosses are theatrical in the best arcade tradition, starting with Karnov, the fire-breathing strongman from Data East's own earlier game, and continuing through clawed ninjas, an illusionist who splits into copies and a hulking giant called Animal.
The NES version, released in North America in 1989, swaps the arcade's simultaneous co-op for alternating two-player turns and quietly drops the arcade's "President Ronnie" name, but it keeps the spirit intact, right down to an ending in which the rescued President invites the Dudes out for a burger. That ending, and the opening line before it, have become a permanent part of gaming folklore.
Bad Dudes sits in a sweet spot for NES fans: instantly recognizable, endlessly quotable, and still fun enough to pull out and play through on a Saturday afternoon. It is the purest distillation of late-80s arcade attitude on the console, and a cartridge that gets a laugh and a "one more try" from almost anyone who picks up the controller.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- Namco
- Developer
- Data East
- Genre
- Beat 'em up
- Players
- Single player
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