MUSCLE
MUSCLE
MUSCLE
MUSCLE
MUSCLE
MUSCLE

MUSCLE

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Item Description

Long before most American kids knew the name Kinnikuman, they knew the tiny rubber wrestlers sold in little trash-can packs as M.U.S.C.L.E. This NES cartridge, released as Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E., carried those figures into the ring. Developed by Tose and published by Bandai, it came out in Japan in late 1985 and in North America in October 1986, making it one of the earliest third-party games on the NES.

The action is a quick, simple tag-team brawl. You choose your wrestlers from a roster of eight bizarre fighters, each with a signature special move, and slug it out in a side-view ring with punches, drop kicks, lariats, back drops and flying body attacks, whipping opponents into the ropes along the way. The twist is the energy ball: every so often a trainer at ringside tosses one into the ring, and whoever grabs it can unleash his special move. Matches turn into a scramble for that ball, and the clock keeps the pace frantic.

Against the computer it becomes a test of endurance, but the real fun is two players going head to head in the kind of short, loud match that defined early NES game nights. It is primitive next to the wrestling games that followed, and that is part of its charm: this is NES wrestling at its most elemental, from the era when simply seeing these characters move on a television screen was the thrill.

In Japan the Famicom version sold more than a million copies. For American collectors, the appeal is the crossover, a cartridge that sits right where the mid-'80s toy aisle and the NES boom meet, and a natural companion to a shelf of rubber figures.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1985
Publisher
Bandai
Developer
Tose
Genre
Sports
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

One of the first Wrestling games released on the NES, based on Yudetamago's manga and Kinnikuman anime.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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