Author Topic: Smells like Vigilante...  (Read 857 times)

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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2007, 06:14:40 PM »
yes, they stole it and messed it up just as much as it's possible :shock:
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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2007, 06:25:13 PM »
Hah, awesome find! I really want to play that game now, looks cool.
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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2007, 08:12:31 PM »
Those graphics look really bad.  Sometimes more colors ≠ better.  Plus the vertically oriented screen destroys the game.  Who wants to play games on a cell phone, anyway?  I barely even want to talk on mine.

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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2007, 05:28:09 AM »
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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2007, 05:59:09 AM »
And how is this a remake of "Kung Fu Master"?  The sprites look like they were lifted straight out of Vigilante. 

But Kung Fu Master.  Now, there's a classic.  According to Wikipedia, KFM was supposedly the very first beat-em up, but I'm trying to think if there were any others before that.  I thought of Mechner's Karateka, but they were both released in 84.  Hmmm...


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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2007, 06:41:00 AM »
Excellent find MotherGunner :).

And how is this a remake of "Kung Fu Master"?  The sprites look like they were lifted straight out of Vigilante. 

But Kung Fu Master.  Now, there's a classic.  According to Wikipedia, KFM was supposedly the very first beat-em up, but I'm trying to think if there were any others before that.  I thought of Mechner's Karateka, but they were both released in 84.  Hmmm...
Yeah, this has nothing to do with Kung Fu Master. And you're right, the sprites are totally rippied from Vigilante and slightly altered (at times the pallette was merely changed, at other times it looks like they created new characters in style with the old ones -- like the fatman wielding a knife).

This is friggin' lame because it's a commercial product. Of course, like Keranu, I totally want to see how this thing plays! :) Oh, I'm so pathetic.
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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2007, 08:16:07 AM »
Definately a lift-job of Vigilante's sprites, and I made sure to write a review stating that fact. Of course, it'll probably never appear.

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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2007, 02:01:42 PM »
And how is this a remake of "Kung Fu Master"?  The sprites look like they were lifted straight out of Vigilante.
Vigilante is kinda like a spiritual successor to KFM.  You have a guy that looks and dresses similar to the hero in KFM, they're both by IREM, and they're both walk-along beat-em-ups with a lot of popcorn enemies.

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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2007, 11:22:32 AM »
Hurts me to say, but I played the original arcade version of Vigilante on MAME once (never played the TG16 one), and I wasn't really impressed. Mainly because it was a tad too hard, and that lowered the fun factor alot for me.

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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2007, 11:36:16 AM »
i haven't any problem with the difficulty level of the pce vigilante before. may be the last stage is some kind of hard.
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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2007, 06:58:09 AM »
I would get it.. except I use a pocket PC phone so it wont work on mine...  :(
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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2007, 09:19:31 PM »
As expected, my review hasn't appeared and likely won't.

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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2007, 02:09:45 AM »
As expected, my review hasn't appeared and likely won't.
DUDE! Post your reviews here :)

I know this thread hasn't generated too much interest, but I'm not the only one who would enjoy reading it :).

I think the designers were being disingenuous by conveniently omitting that they stole from Vigilante... they make it sound like the progression goes from Kung Fu (Spartan X)  --> Kung Fu 72

instead of

Spartan X (Kung Fu) --> Vigilante --> Vigilante Remix (Kung Fu 72)

Until Chris posted, I didn't know that Kung Fu / Spartan X (NES / FMC) was known also known as "Kung Fu Master" ...

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Re: Smells like Vigilante...
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2007, 05:38:15 AM »
Spartan X (Kung Fu) --> Vigilante --> Vigilante Remix (Kung Fu 72)

Until Chris posted, I didn't know that Kung Fu / Spartan X (NES / FMC) was known also known as "Kung Fu Master" ...

Yeah, I thought it was always "Kung Fu Master" in the arcades.  It threw me off a little when I saw the NES release, because I thought, "Why didn't say use the arcade name?"