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Kinnikuman - MUSCLE Tag Match [Model BA-KIN]

Nintendo Famicom cart. published 39 years ago by Bandai Co., Ltd.

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Kinnikuman - MUSCLE Tag Match [Model BA-KIN] screenshot

キン肉マン マッスルタッグマッチ © 1985 Bandai.
(Kinnikuman - MUSCLE Tag Match)

Fighting game based on Yudetamago's manga and anime series; Kinnikuman (1979-1987). It has eight playable characters, each with his own special move.

The game has two modes, one requiring the player to defeat a computer opponent while the other requires two players to fight against each other.

TECHNICAL

GAME ID: BA-KIN
BARCODE: 4 902425 047638

TRIVIA

Kinnikuman was released on November 08, 1985 in Japan. It was the first bandai game for the Famicom. The game sold 1,05 million units in Japan.

MUSLCE stands for Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere.

Originally, they intended to put more superhumans inside the game, but there were many characters that were difficult to reproduce due to the capacity of the ROM.

Brocken Jr.'s special move called Nazi Gas is the only projectile among all characters and if it hits, even one shot, the other player can't move and it was possible to hit it continuously. Therefore, at that time, there was a common nationwide understanding that a ban on the use of Brocken Jr. was established in matches between players, and that using Brocken Jr. was called a coward.

Although the game goes on endlessly, it officially has 255 rounds, after those rounds, the player enter round 0 (completing the 8-bit variable for rounds number), on which the speed level resets and the time per round returns to 30:00 (from round 100 reduced to 10:00).

It is believed that the maximum score one could get from this game is 99,999,999 points, but it is unknown what will happen afterwards, but it will probably return to 0 as well.

There were two limited editions: A gold cartridge version for official game tournament prizes and a Shueisha children's book version (the appearance of the cartridge is green, and the contents are unchanged). The gold cartridge version has the right to put your favorite character in the game, and in each case one existing character has been deleted and one new character has been added. As a tournament prize, it was distributed to the top 1 people in 8 districts nationwide (total of 8 people in 8 districts in Japan).

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