Riot Zone isn't a bad game at all, but how much does one have to try in order to be this painstakingly vanilla? It has got a killer soundtrack, but it tries far too hard to be Final Fight.
NintendoComplete I watched my older cousins play this all the time back in the day. I use to get yelled at for calling it final fight lol. I was 9 yrs old and the game looked no different to me 🤣🤷🏻♂️
Lmao, like he's got a salt-and-vinegar Pringle held between his ass cheeks and he's terrified to break it. That shit would burn, especially if he has piles like you said 🤣
It even has the most vanilla name ever. RIOT ZONE. That's the name you'd give a Z grade martial arts/crime flick from the early 80's that had a budget of two thousand bucks and somehow managed to wrangle Fred Williamson to star in it.
Hawk: Remember, anything they drop--goods, food, cash is fair game. Leave their wallets alone. We're not robbers. Valuable non-cash stuff might be pawned. Perfume though, that's more for Candy once we save her. Tony: Yeah, and those bounty posters might make for good ways to pay rent too. We'll make bank as long as we bring the bounty-folks in preferably still alive (when they'll have more value) though unconscious.
This is an early 90s CD-ROM game. Where the heck is the cheesy to the point of wonderful voice acting during that opening curscene? I demand all games made before 2000 to feature a cast made up of employees they pulled into a recording studio during their lunch break!
This is Riot City isn't it? This owes a lot to the Riot City arcade game, right down to Tony/Bobby's funky walk :) And the girl's animations at the end (albeit fully clothed).
Remembering the days where my mom will take the controllers as punishment when my brother and I misbehave. And we’ll just sit there watching the demo of the game from not pushing the start button.
I always found it funny how @2:02 he pretends to his buddy that "You're not going alone... 'Cuz I'm coming with ya!" and he then further insists that "Ya, we'll go down fighting... Together!" YET the game is single player only :D But the PC Engine hardware would have struggled with a second player anyway. The game already runs in limited resolution, with a large HUD bar and stiff animations... And talking about animation, that walk cycle is stuff of legend haha :D Still, I'm rather impressed that the game displays up to 3 enemy sprites and also that they pulled off some nice "fake" parallax scrollings here and there. I'd say that this is a rather good beat 'em up for the system and with the kind of cheesiness that is a bit lacking nowadays.
Tony there's walkin' like he needs a bit of a larger sized pair of undies. Poor guy. It's great! The soundtrack is amazing. Too bad the game can only handle one player at a time...
I don't understand how no one at that development company looked a the sprite panel for Tony's walk and said, "this needs a do-over." I mean that is a thing I can't un-see now. It's like a marching step and a dance move together with half a run.
Riot Zone is a port of an arcade game that Westone developed for Sega called Riot City. The game's name and character designs were changed for the TurboGrafx-CD version. The reason why Tony walks like that and has a breakdancing attack is that he was based on a character from Riot City named Bobby. Bobby was a black cop who used street dance moves.
Uh Tony lad pretty sure you don't need to tip toe I'm pretty sure that they know that you're there man. Honestly this one the slowest games on a system that calls itself Turbo. Just play any of the Final Fights ”or even Battletoads a game that came out in 1991 for an 8 bit for crying out loud”.
So the duo ended up making $55,000 dollars after defeating all the bosses, that be more then enough for them to go on vacation after all the craziness they went through just to save Candy.
@@NintendoComplete It's not about how much you pay for it nowadays. ;-) One of my friends had the japanese version (Crest Of Wolf) back in the day. I recall playing it 27 years ago and thinking the exact words i wrote in my previous comment, 1 hour ago. :-D
@@chano7053 Oh yeah, I was totally agreeing with you. I was pointing out the irony - you wouldn't expect a poor man's anything on a machine expensive as this setup was at the time :) The game is totally low-rent, but it's serviceable enough.
@@NintendoComplete I wasn't arguing, buddy. :-) Yep, the PC Engine was a very expensive machine. The fact that you had to pay big bux for all those add ons wasn't very attractive. The same could be said for the Megadrive/Genesis with the Mega CD and 32X....
@@chano7053 For sure, they're both hideous. I dunno what the US Turbo with the separate drive is supposed to look like, but it's damn ugly. The Jaguar CD has the same problem. It looks like a Roomba. Or maybe a portable camping toilet.
The enemy names are funny as fuck, you can clearly see that they are all japanese designs even with traditional outfits and their names are the most stereotypical american names ever.
They did make it coop originally but the lead characters just ended up beating up each other with their truncheons so they had to pull the plug - Thats why Tony walks that way - obvious really
Painfully generic and sometimes the graphics do not look just similar to Final Fight but outright lifted from it. Confronted with the original arcade game it's a really admirable effort, as the music is much better, and adds a surprise wacky final boss (the Samurai armor goes suddendly alive???), but the issue is that the source wasn't that great to begin with - ridiculous walking cycles included.
As a side scroller beat em up fan, I was extremely disappointed. I had high expectations, because it was marketed as a super CD. The graphics are a cheap rip off to Final Fight. For a super CD, I find the sound below average w/very little voice overs, and the music mediocre. The gameplay makes the game worse, because it’s only one player! Moreover, there are no weapons to use, and I find the levels repetitive at times. Not to mention the challenge was almost non existent, because I beat the game in one sitting. I own Final Fight CD and Streets of Rage 2, and they are way better in terms of graphics, gameplay, music, and challenge. If, this was in turbo chip format I would give it more credit. Riot Zone had so much potential, and could of been better, if the developers had put more time and effort into development.
Does this game got two players that should have two players that's the thing with turbo Graphics some games or two players or not but this should be two players🎮🕹😀👍🏾
So in place of Bimmy and Jimmy we have...Hawk and Tony. At the end of the day it's a _competent_ beat-'em-up that you can find better elsewhere, but _far_ worse, as well.
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Surprisingly Tony doesn't tear a quad from walking so hard😂
One of the greatest walk cycles in gaming, lol.
I noticed that too. It's absolutely hilarious.
Riot Zone isn't a bad game at all, but how much does one have to try in order to be this painstakingly vanilla? It has got a killer soundtrack, but it tries far too hard to be Final Fight.
NintendoComplete I watched my older cousins play this all the time back in the day. I use to get yelled at for calling it final fight lol. I was 9 yrs old and the game looked no different to me 🤣🤷🏻♂️
@@KCee984 Hahaha you were totally right.
With the Combatribes ?
NintendoComplete looks like your typical SNES brawler. Never more than 3 enemies, single player snooze fest. Music is really good though.
Yup the whole vibe smells like final fight from tops to bottom!
The walking animation is awesome! 😂
That Vince McMahon walk tho xD
That walk cycle tho. lol walks like he got hemroids hes trying not to upset , but yet still wanna march manly lol
Lmao, like he's got a salt-and-vinegar Pringle held between his ass cheeks and he's terrified to break it. That shit would burn, especially if he has piles like you said 🤣
It even has the most vanilla name ever. RIOT ZONE. That's the name you'd give a Z grade martial arts/crime flick from the early 80's that had a budget of two thousand bucks and somehow managed to wrangle Fred Williamson to star in it.
Hawk: Remember, anything they drop--goods, food, cash is fair game. Leave their wallets alone. We're not robbers. Valuable non-cash stuff might be pawned. Perfume though, that's more for Candy once we save her. Tony: Yeah, and those bounty posters might make for good ways to pay rent too. We'll make bank as long as we bring the bounty-folks in preferably still alive (when they'll have more value) though unconscious.
1:35 I guess that "Cody" from "Final Fight" and "Axel" from "Streets of Rage" were a little inspiration for this character.
That walk cycle...
This is an early 90s CD-ROM game. Where the heck is the cheesy to the point of wonderful voice acting during that opening curscene? I demand all games made before 2000 to feature a cast made up of employees they pulled into a recording studio during their lunch break!
Tony does Spinaroonie!🤙
I still have my Turbo Duo. And Vampire Killers X.
Tony must have some strong hams and very fluid hip flexors.....lucky bastard.
Kinda hilarious how every kick and throw sounds like gunshots.
Oh man that walking animation is relentless!!! XD
Final Fight meets Streets of Rage!
This game was released 2 26 1993 North America
This is Riot City isn't it? This owes a lot to the Riot City arcade game, right down to Tony/Bobby's funky walk :) And the girl's animations at the end (albeit fully clothed).
Yeah, it is.
Remembering the days where my mom will take the controllers as punishment when my brother and I misbehave. And we’ll just sit there watching the demo of the game from not pushing the start button.
I always found it funny how @2:02 he pretends to his buddy that "You're not going alone... 'Cuz I'm coming with ya!" and he then further insists that "Ya, we'll go down fighting... Together!" YET the game is single player only :D
But the PC Engine hardware would have struggled with a second player anyway. The game already runs in limited resolution, with a large HUD bar and stiff animations...
And talking about animation, that walk cycle is stuff of legend haha :D
Still, I'm rather impressed that the game displays up to 3 enemy sprites and also that they pulled off some nice "fake" parallax scrollings here and there. I'd say that this is a rather good beat 'em up for the system and with the kind of cheesiness that is a bit lacking nowadays.
"PC Engine hardware would have struggled with a second player", Double Dragon 2 would like a word with you
Tony there's walkin' like he needs a bit of a larger sized pair of undies. Poor guy. It's great! The soundtrack is amazing. Too bad the game can only handle one player at a time...
Looks like a total Riot! The guy can breakdance at ease but can't walk for Shyt
I can't work out what's more awkward, When they link arms at the end of the intro or Tony's walk?
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That was the old skool man-shake
I wonder if this game was released in the US
STAY OUTTA THE DRAGON ZONE!!
I don't understand how no one at that development company looked a the sprite panel for Tony's walk and said, "this needs a do-over." I mean that is a thing I can't un-see now. It's like a marching step and a dance move together with half a run.
Riot Zone is a port of an arcade game that Westone developed for Sega called Riot City. The game's name and character designs were changed for the TurboGrafx-CD version. The reason why Tony walks like that and has a breakdancing attack is that he was based on a character from Riot City named Bobby. Bobby was a black cop who used street dance moves.
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This so that well beat up with Bad Dudes CD Turbo.
I think Tony needs to find the toilet… 💩🤣
Good ol' Candy. ;)
Who on Earth WALKS like that???
Besides Bobby From Riot City 😆
Uh Tony lad pretty sure you don't need to tip toe I'm pretty sure that they know that you're there man. Honestly this one the slowest games on a system that calls itself Turbo. Just play any of the Final Fights ”or even Battletoads a game that came out in 1991 for an 8 bit for crying out loud”.
So the duo ended up making $55,000 dollars after defeating all the bosses, that be more then enough for them to go on vacation after all the craziness they went through just to save Candy.
Where does the cd power come in besides the soundtrack
That's how I walk. Don't make fun of me. 🥺
Poor man's Final Fight.
Lol yup, on hardware that cost somewhere between $300-600 depending on when you bought it
@@NintendoComplete It's not about how much you pay for it nowadays. ;-) One of my friends had the japanese version (Crest Of Wolf) back in the day. I recall playing it 27 years ago and thinking the exact words i wrote in my previous comment, 1 hour ago. :-D
@@chano7053 Oh yeah, I was totally agreeing with you. I was pointing out the irony - you wouldn't expect a poor man's anything on a machine expensive as this setup was at the time :) The game is totally low-rent, but it's serviceable enough.
@@NintendoComplete I wasn't arguing, buddy. :-) Yep, the PC Engine was a very expensive machine. The fact that you had to pay big bux for all those add ons wasn't very attractive. The same could be said for the Megadrive/Genesis with the Mega CD and 32X....
@@chano7053 For sure, they're both hideous. I dunno what the US Turbo with the separate drive is supposed to look like, but it's damn ugly. The Jaguar CD has the same problem. It looks like a Roomba. Or maybe a portable camping toilet.
All the games they had at their disposal and they came out with this crap and it's a one player game.This is Riot City the arcade game.
The enemy names are funny as fuck, you can clearly see that they are all japanese designs even with traditional outfits and their names are the most stereotypical american names ever.
I thought this game was pretty cool. They should put this on the TG16 mini that's coming up.
Give us a Turboduo mini with all CD ROMs.
Wait, beat em up without coop? Really? Or am I missing something?
Final Fight on SNES
Maximum Carnage on SNES & Genesis was not co-op.
They did make it coop originally but the lead characters just ended up beating up each other with their truncheons so they had to pull the plug - Thats why Tony walks that way - obvious really
As others have said, generic game overall, but the game's soundtrack is easily its saving grace.
Painfully generic and sometimes the graphics do not look just similar to Final Fight but outright lifted from it.
Confronted with the original arcade game it's a really admirable effort, as the music is much better, and adds a surprise wacky final boss (the Samurai armor goes suddendly alive???), but the issue is that the source wasn't that great to begin with - ridiculous walking cycles included.
Final fight clone!
Cool
Yes download is available.
md5sum:
This is easiest beat 'em up game i've every played
It may be a bland beat em up game, but the soundtrack does make up for it.👍
Only one player? 🥺🥺
As a side scroller beat em up fan, I was extremely disappointed. I had high expectations, because it was marketed as a super CD. The graphics are a cheap rip off to Final Fight. For a super CD, I find the sound below average w/very little voice overs, and the music mediocre. The gameplay makes the game worse, because it’s only one player! Moreover, there are no weapons to use, and I find the levels repetitive at times. Not to mention the challenge was almost non existent, because I beat the game in one sitting. I own Final Fight CD and Streets of Rage 2, and they are way better in terms of graphics, gameplay, music, and challenge. If, this was in turbo chip format I would give it more credit. Riot Zone had so much potential, and could of been better, if the developers had put more time and effort into development.
Computer has the worst ai lol still like the game tho
Does this game got two players that should have two players that's the thing with turbo Graphics some games or two players or not but this should be two players🎮🕹😀👍🏾
Street of rage cheap edition
Big fan of the music, not a huge fan of the translation!
Está bueno el juego lo único que no me gusta es su forma de caminar
This game was so trash back in the day😂😂
So in place of Bimmy and Jimmy we have...Hawk and Tony. At the end of the day it's a _competent_ beat-'em-up that you can find better elsewhere, but _far_ worse, as well.