Retro Classix: Bad Dudes

Well, it's Bad Dudes alright. It still looks great and the environments vary a lot during its quite short 30min playtime. The gameplay hasn't aged especially well, feeling a bit clunky. And the difficulty-balancing is very arcade-machine-focused, meaning its less about skill and more about pumping more and more (virtual) coins into the machine as you die over and over while buttonmashing your way to the end. I'd recommend this to anyone feeling like a stroll down memory lane. But if you don't have any nostalgia for this game, you probably won't get much out of it.

I used to go to Pistol Pete's Pizza back in '88 practically once a week just to play this in the arcade when I was 10 years old in the fourth grade. The NES/Famicom port was "okay" but it never lived up to the arcade experience to me. Here I am at age 43, thirty three years later and I FINALLY have this sucka Arcade Perfect. (No I never bothered with MAME). For fans of roving brawlers / beat 'em ups (especially with 1980s cheese factor and Ninja craze) you STILL can't go wrong with this game. Don't expect Streets of Rage 4 or Double Dragon Advance or anything super duper... but it's still fun to play. IT'S A BUTTON MASHER, you gonna die a lot just to beat the game. But it's so worth it. *** I'M BAD! ***

Ecco qui un classico immortale. Assieme a Double Dragon spaccavano in sala giochi sul finire degli anni 80, prima dell'invasione dei picchiaduro capcom. Dragon Ninja è qui presentato in emulazione perfetta, si può addirittura scegliere l'opzione di emulazione dei vecchi monitor crt ed i bordi arrotondati, proprio per ritornare indietro di 30 e passa anni. Io me lo sono giocato in tutte le salse, l'avevo acquistato per il mio Commodore 64, ci giocavo da un mio amico sullo Zx Spectrum, me lo sono successivamente comprato per Amiga e l'ho emulato per Amstrad CPC. La versione Amstrad è forse la migliore per 8bit, quella Amiga non è malvagia, e da oggi ho la versione da sala su Steam. Che dire, se bazzicavate le sale negli anni 80 sapete di cosa parlo, quindi acquisto obbligato per noi vecchietti, compratelo !!

Bad Dudes Vs Dragon Ninjas I was lucky enough to play this classic when it came out in the Arcades and on the NES. This is a repackage of the Nintendo Switch port done a little while back. It is a good port it plays the way it should, it is however a little bare bones in the option settings, a few screen choices and not much more, sadly It does not have a difficulty select or anything available, these were quarter munchers back in the day and the ability to change difficulty can sometimes make these games way more fun. I am looking forward to the rest of the games they have already released on the Switch we will most likely be getting Sly Spy, Joe and Mac 2 and most importantly Night Slashers, please keep them coming :)

I'm BAD!

Classic arcade beat'em'up - fully ported with 2player capabilities, ninja punching nostalgia and the ability to feed in coins for lives without loosing all your pocket money... this time... https://youtu.be/9oV3MMz6_ns

Remember playing this with a school friend in 88 89 during the school holiday, loved the ninja theme, ninjas were everywhere during the 1980s, main heroes or antagonists are inspired by Bruce Lee you can tell, level 2, as a kid was blown away by the wheels on the truck animation and the cars for that time was impressive. We did not complete it as did not have much money but a Great memory of a Great game like double dragon, all those muscles through out the 80s with our action hereos and my dad inspired me to workout, like anything its in your genes or blood, Blessings to everyone reading this. :) definetly recommended

Игра стилизованная так же как и все игры серии Retro Classix в Steam. Игра для аркадных автоматов, а значит априори нереально сложная и была создана лишь для выкачивания денег. Но это не значит что она плохая. Игры на аркадных автоматах делали специально качественные с интересным геймплеем и ярко выраженной, красочной и сочной графикой, что бы хотелось играть ещё и ещё. И все они были, как правило, не большие по времени прохождения, но довольно сложные, чтоб забрать у вас как можно больше монеток. Вот и эта игра проходится всего за пол часа. Но она того стоит.