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Samurai Shodown
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Item Condition
Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact cartridge. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Every round of Samurai Shodown can turn on a single swing. A heavy slash lands, the action drops into slow motion, and a third of a life bar is simply gone. SNK built its 1993 arcade hit around that tension, making it the company's first fighter centered on weapon combat, and in a genre ruled by fist-and-foot combo strings it asked players to wait, read their opponent and strike once, decisively.
The setting is feudal Japan in the late 1780s, and every fighter carries a blade, claw or staff. Take hits and your rage gauge swells, making your next blows hit harder still, while clashing weapons can lock both fighters in a struggle that leaves the loser disarmed. The stage itself has personality: a black-clad Kuroko referees each bout, raising a flag for whoever lands a hit, and a delivery man in the background tosses in bombs or a health-restoring chicken that can swing a close match.
The roster set the tone for a franchise. Haohmaru is the wandering, sake-loving swordsman; Nakoruru fights alongside her hawk; the ninja Galford brings his dog Poppy; and the cast stretches from Ukyo Tachibana, Jubei Yagyu and Hanzo Hattori to Charlotte, Tam Tam, Wan-Fu, Kyoshiro Senryo, Gen-An and the enormous Earthquake. Standing over all of them is Shiro Amakusa, the heretic preacher whose body has been seized by the dark being Ambrosia.
The Super Nintendo version, published by Takara in September 1994, keeps all twelve fighters, including Earthquake, who was cut from the Genesis and Sega CD versions, along with every arcade stage, the arcade endings, announcer name calls and an exclusive Count Down mode. To fit the hardware the camera sits zoomed out, the arcade's scaling is gone and the fatal finishing moves were removed, but Electronic Gaming Monthly still called it a very good port. It is the cartridge to own if you want the complete original cast on a 16-bit console.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1993
- Publisher
- Japan Home Video Co.
- Developer
- SNK
- Genre
- Fighting
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
In early Japan, a man named Shiro Tokisada Amakusa preaches a heretic religion. Little does anyone know that Amakusa is really a servant of the evil Ambrosia, who took over Amakusa's body. Ambrosia wishes to shroud the world in darkness. Now, choose between 12 warriors (and 3 bonus characters) to fight for the honor of destroying Amakusa, and fulfilling a mission.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplaySamurai Shodown on Super Nintendo
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