Bad Street Brawler was published in 1987 by Beam Software. This game is also known as Bop'N'Rumble (Commodore 64) and Street Hassle (ZX Spectrum).
This game is a Double Dragon clone. Your mission is to walk left to right and kick a lot of bad guys. I'm not really sure are these guys that bad. Most common enemies looks like blind people, some of your opponents are old ladies attacking with their purses so the game has some ... humour ;) Do not worry - not every villain is crippled or weak - in some levels you'll be facing dogs and real fat guys, on other there will be normal muscled men. One thing I can say - none of these opponents is easy, especially when there are many of them on the screen.
Of course there are also bosses. These ones can be tricky. First one is a gorilla, which does not think, only tries to smash your head. One of the latter is a motorcycle rider - that one always made me nervous - he is just driving around, or should I say - tries to drive through you! You'll meet the rest of them during game.
Good thing is that you are as lethal as your opponents. You can kick, punch, giggle, throw and do some more hurting things to get to next level. Interesting thing is that each level you get a new set of "aggressive moves". They are not always fresh and not all of them are new, but always it's nice to look forward to find a new way to smash a villain. Some of the animations are really funny, and always there is a point why this particular attack was allowed at this stage. For example: when you’ll be facing dogs, you’ll be able to giggle them, and when motorcycle rider comes in to play you’ll get a chance to give him a flying kick.
Controls in this game are simple. You can move around using four directional buttons. If you want to hit someone you still use these buttons but with addition of Fire button pressed. Calculation is easy - four directions mean four kinds of attack. As mentioned before on every level there is a different set of "aggressive moves" so at the beginning of every stage it is good to try what you can do.
Graphics are not the best. Each person is drawn with huge 2x2 pixels. With 320x200 resolutions everyone looks like a big square. Also, not many colours are used. Music is simple but it does not disturb the gameplay. Maybe you'll like this melody - as aggressive as the game itself ;)
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