I was ten years old, walking in downtown in my home town in Greece. I exit the ice cream store with my mom and right next to it, there was that small, lousy arcade . I saw this game playing on demo mode and this image was imprinted on my memory. A werewolf fighting another monster. I was too young to allow me to play, so my mother picked me up and we went home. The arcade store closed soon after and I never encountered this game again. I had no idea about the name. 30 years after, I tried various word combinations (beat em up, retro, fighting, monsters, mythical etc) but never succeded in locating it. I remembered the werewolf, but every search led to Altered Beast or Metamorphic Force.... Suddenly, the image came back "beat em up werewolf MINOTAUR" And HERE IT IS!
I played this on the arcade machine at work about 20 odd years ago, I loved it. they should bring this out on console along with a load of old classic arcade games from this time period.
@@slaimramirezmejia4872 Yes he is a demon from Ancient Mesopotamian, but analyzing this demon is not from Mesopotamian because all demons always come from a place that would be from hell, so demons come from hell not from Mesopotamian.
I gotta say this is a disappointing and quite inferior follow up. They should've perfected what they already had. This feels like a different game, only thing they have in common is monsters. You fight to the death too in this allegedly, but I don't see or feel it. The big super fly in the air moves are too cartoonish to carry much weight to them. It just seems like you won the match and their out cold. The music is super cheesy, repetitive and awful in this one too. It also betrays the memory and aesthetic of the original game. What were they thinking?
I played this a lot when it was in the arcade. Looking back, I feel silly for not having paid attention to the on-screen instructions, as I could hardly ever pull of the Super Throws, and never understood why.
I wouldn't mind a remaster of this, or a new fantasy style wrestling game. I know if RumbleSlam ever tried their hand at a video game, I would definitely check it out.
This kind of tournament fighting game, with mobility to up and down on the screen, was common on the early years of the genre. Others like Pit Fighter and WWF Superstars were released during the period. But the style was put aside after Street Fighter 2, and its fixed foregrond, defined the genre's final format.
Minotaur with the worlds very first stylised victory T-bag, and Dragon for the second. Master Chief... eat your heart out. (7:00-7:30) ish. I remember this as a child. I got beat up, down, left, right, A+Start. Right up there with R-Type. Quarter scarfers... Dragon was my favorite but I would have killed to be able to have been good with Minotaur. I was best with Werewolf.
I remember in the arcades being able to hear Hercules scream "You are a bug to me!!" pulling off his super. "Know the authority of my hall!" I the digitized voices weren't bad either. A strange but cool fighter.
Probably cuz of the terrible cheesy music and very bright graphics. This was a weak sequel to Hippodrome. That game was brutal (for its time) and quite dark.
+hanchiman Death Brade is the original name, Mutant fighter is the name of the Us release. Why they change names that are already on english is beyond me.
DieHard300 I suspect that the word "Death" was kind of "violent" so they change to mutant maybe, you see during the early 90's there was alot of "violent media scare", well at least in Europe. So to save little kids from violent influence they think changing the name and titles will make it less violent (idiotic logic, but just bear with me). One famous example of title change is Ninja Turtles in Europe is called Hero Turtles, because "Ninja sound violent".
***** True. Just say that here in Spain the Ninja Turtles were kept as Ninja T.. I dont know on what part of Europe that was changed, probably Germany that is the most censored country on Eu. or maybe on Uk they were pretty prone to censor things on the 90's.
DieHard300 From what I gathered, mostly "Northern Europe", I live in Sweden. It went so bad in Sweden that they really censored Disney cartoon with Goofy and Tom and Jerry at the beginning of the early 90's (it was also due to teen gang violence for a period) seriously I shit you not. Also most Northern Europe didn't even have Japanese animation, I heard that most South of Europe (including France), you already watched Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball even back in the 90's.
***** Damn!, didnt know north Europe was so content repressive, I always thought that Germany ans Uk were the worst on that department. I was lucky that in Spain videogames and anime were rarely censored, most of the time we had even more content than the Us and France versions.
I finished this game as a kid at the local vogue. Cost my parents a whole bunch of 5 francs coins 😀. It took me a while to finally find you, games. After all this years, you still look very weird.
I don't know which is more bizarre. The way they basically stole the hydra's death and SFX from Jason and the Argonauts, or the fact that the arena has the British Coat of arms painted on the floor.
Oh I played this once and most distinctly remember being beaten by the Hydra. I wondered for at least two decades what he said since I got the impression each different head was saying a word. I remember being annoyed I couldn't pick the Hydra because it made me think of King Ghidorah.
"La arena estaba de bote en bote la gente loca de la emocion, en el ring luchaban los cuatro mutans idolos de la aficion el Fighter,Minotaur, golem y werewolf" XD
So this must have been some kinda spiritual successor to hippodrome even down to the fonts and menus. Data east had the vocal samples locked down back in the day
not just that... this was the FIRST vs. fighting game to introduce the possibility of choosing the same character of your opponent, different-colored (in 2p vs. mode only).
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Ahh man, I remember this from an arcade years ago but couldn't remember the title for the life of me...thanks for sharing
I was ten years old, walking in downtown in my home town in Greece.
I exit the ice cream store with my mom and right next to it, there was that small, lousy arcade .
I saw this game playing on demo mode and this image was imprinted on my memory. A werewolf fighting another monster. I was too young to allow me to play, so my mother picked me up and we went home.
The arcade store closed soon after and I never encountered this game again. I had no idea about the name.
30 years after, I tried various word combinations (beat em up, retro, fighting, monsters, mythical etc) but never succeded in locating it.
I remembered the werewolf, but every search led to Altered Beast or Metamorphic Force....
Suddenly, the image came back "beat em up werewolf MINOTAUR"
And HERE IT IS!
I played this on the arcade machine at work about 20 odd years ago, I loved it. they should bring this out on console along with a load of old classic arcade games from this time period.
Mythology Wrestling and the penultimate boss is the demon of The Exorcist film.
Pazuzu
Not from a film. Ancient mesopotamian religion.
@@slaimramirezmejia4872 Yes he is a demon from Ancient Mesopotamian, but analyzing this demon is not from Mesopotamian because all demons always come from a place that would be from hell, so demons come from hell not from Mesopotamian.
Feel the authority of horn!
Brain Gooey!
I'm in invincible!
Man, these beasts are light as hell!
Only game I ever saw that expects you to kill a hydra with your bare hands.
A Hydra that weighs only 246 lbs at that.
@@PerryR1985 And is only 9 ft tall
This game is a sequel to 1989 Hippodrome made by the same company, Data East.
I gotta say this is a disappointing and quite inferior follow up. They should've perfected what they already had. This feels like a different game, only thing they have in common is monsters. You fight to the death too in this allegedly, but I don't see or feel it. The big super fly in the air moves are too cartoonish to carry much weight to them. It just seems like you won the match and their out cold.
The music is super cheesy, repetitive and awful in this one too. It also betrays the memory and aesthetic of the original game. What were they thinking?
MAGIC!!!
+Mightysky wizard I remember loving to imitate "YOU ARE A BUG TO ME!" from this game.
Tf2 Merasmus Voice: MAGIC!
MA-GICK!
I played this arcade game in early 90"s
childhood memories
Yes right childhood memories
been looking for this rom for ages but could not remember the game name, all i could remember was the boss saying magic over n over haha good times
I played this game with the werewolf. Lot of fun.
For me it's minotaur
Que lindo recuerdo.
Tenía 15 años en ese entonces.
Uno de mis juegos favoritos junto con double Dragon,
Yo hasta ahorita en una maquinita arcade la encontré que recuerdos
I played this a lot when it was in the arcade. Looking back, I feel silly for not having paid attention to the on-screen instructions, as I could hardly ever pull of the Super Throws, and never understood why.
Mythology smackdown
I allways loved the: MAGEEK!!😂😂😂😂
I wouldn't mind a remaster of this, or a new fantasy style wrestling game. I know if RumbleSlam ever tried their hand at a video game, I would definitely check it out.
new franchise...WWE MYTHOLOGIES
Ragnarok Hussain except the loser apparently dies
I dunno why but I enjoyed watching this tremendously, haha.
What a cool game! I love the characters and the music! Kinda bummed everyone has to die when they lose though. haha
I did this in a co op playthrough video.
Que buenos tiempos eran juegos muy entretenidos gracias por compartir
Seems like a flashier version of Sega Fight Masters...
That music is awesome
Jack The Ripper yes it makes you want to disco dance 💃
En los tiempos cuando Jackson era el unico rey.
This kind of tournament fighting game, with mobility to up and down on the screen, was common on the early years of the genre.
Others like Pit Fighter and WWF Superstars were released during the period.
But the style was put aside after Street Fighter 2, and its fixed foregrond, defined the genre's final format.
Dig dem crazy beatz to disco dancing
Minotaur with the worlds very first stylised victory T-bag, and Dragon for the second. Master Chief... eat your heart out. (7:00-7:30) ish. I remember this as a child. I got beat up, down, left, right, A+Start. Right up there with R-Type. Quarter scarfers... Dragon was my favorite but I would have killed to be able to have been good with Minotaur. I was best with Werewolf.
i was looking for many years this video game.
Vay anasını be çocukluğumun oyunu. Duygulandım
Bende çok önceden oynuyordum. Hala oynuyorum bazen
HELL YEAH! Minotaur vs Dragon!!
The nostalgia hit hard
Yeah
I remember in the arcades being able to hear Hercules scream "You are a bug to me!!" pulling off his super. "Know the authority of my hall!" I the digitized voices weren't bad either. A strange but cool fighter.
Know the authority of my horns*
This is part of my youth.
aaaah, nostalgía pura...
Alfonso Arroyo Azuara ya somos dos
Las retas con la banda callejera, los apasionados que se enojaban.
Ya somos 4
Ya somos cinco, de mis juegos favoritos
Ya somos 6 pocos se acuerdan de este juego
wow what a soundtrack getting really lucky with soundtracks today might have to do some hunting
Beautiful game chingoncizusimo
05:32
Beast teabags him after landing the flying slam. Savage.
The fight suppose to be brutal, but why i can't stop laughing
Probably cuz of the terrible cheesy music and very bright graphics. This was a weak sequel to Hippodrome. That game was brutal (for its time) and quite dark.
✨ MAGIC!!!✨
Fue hermoso 🖤
I need to play this in the collection of Johhny's Turbo Arcade's!!
Clásic game of Data East!!!
Aaaah good ol' Data East. Not the best at making good games, but you can always count on them to create original stuff!
They ARE the best at making GOOD games. Better than CRAPCOM and all of the other fucking famous companies!
Capcom during their CPS1/2 era pretty much only made really great games
I smell unsubstantiated bias in one of these comments...
Data East = Kings
Que recuerdos 😉
busque este juego durante añoooos gracias
Did you have to pick the most boring character to fight as?
maybe It's because he appears to be the protagonist.
lol exactly. generic guile wannabe without a name.
I think he is suppose to be Zeus from World Heroes or at least like him LOL.
@@GameMaster-sv9uw I think he looks like Zeus because both characters are clearly inspired from Hokuto no Ken characters (Raoh, Souther, and pals).
He picked The FIghter since it's the character we can relate the most to.
Excellent
好懷念!
Werewolf
Race: Werewolf
In the Japanese version, they had actual names
Jogava muito isso aqui no Brasil 🇧🇷😉
Can someone tell me the quotes of all characters please ??? Especially Dopple-ganger
Arcade archives really needs to bring this to switch.
Mutant Fighter? I remember this game in Hong Kong also called "Death Brade" or something, probably the Asia arcade release version.
+hanchiman Death Brade is the original name, Mutant fighter is the name of the Us release. Why they change names that are already on english is beyond me.
DieHard300
I suspect that the word "Death" was kind of "violent" so they change to mutant maybe, you see during the early 90's there was alot of "violent media scare", well at least in Europe. So to save little kids from violent influence they think changing the name and titles will make it less violent (idiotic logic, but just bear with me). One famous example of title change is Ninja Turtles in Europe is called Hero Turtles, because "Ninja sound violent".
***** True. Just say that here in Spain the Ninja Turtles were kept as Ninja T..
I dont know on what part of Europe that was changed, probably Germany that is the most censored country on Eu. or maybe on Uk they were pretty prone to censor things on the 90's.
DieHard300
From what I gathered, mostly "Northern Europe", I live in Sweden. It went so bad in Sweden that they really censored Disney cartoon with Goofy and Tom and Jerry at the beginning of the early 90's (it was also due to teen gang violence for a period) seriously I shit you not. Also most Northern Europe didn't even have Japanese animation, I heard that most South of Europe (including France), you already watched Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball even back in the 90's.
***** Damn!, didnt know north Europe was so content repressive, I always thought that Germany ans Uk were the worst on that department. I was lucky that in Spain videogames and anime were rarely censored, most of the time we had even more content than the Us and France versions.
I’m digging dem disco beatz!!!!
Dance I say jejeje 🤣
I finished this game as a kid at the local vogue. Cost my parents a whole bunch of 5 francs coins 😀. It took me a while to finally find you, games. After all this years, you still look very weird.
I don't know which is more bizarre. The way they basically stole the hydra's death and SFX from Jason and the Argonauts, or the fact that the arena has the British Coat of arms painted on the floor.
Oh I played this once and most distinctly remember being beaten by the Hydra. I wondered for at least two decades what he said since I got the impression each different head was saying a word. I remember being annoyed I couldn't pick the Hydra because it made me think of King Ghidorah.
that music was awesome.
Apollo&Tiffany Pigott yes it makes you want to disco dance 💃
진짜 잘 하신다.
MAGIC!
"La arena estaba de bote en bote la gente loca de la emocion, en el ring luchaban los cuatro mutans idolos de la aficion el Fighter,Minotaur, golem y werewolf" XD
nice fighting game
This is actually a sequel to Hippodrome.
Dragon ftw!
So this must have been some kinda spiritual successor to hippodrome even down to the fonts and menus. Data east had the vocal samples locked down back in the day
Eu era criança quando tinha esses jogos na maquina
They say it was Art of Fighting, but THIS one may have been the first versus fighting game to have a special move.
Quickfire for me, this one IS THE FIRST fighting game with super moves.
not just that... this was the FIRST vs. fighting game to introduce the possibility of choosing the same character of your opponent, different-colored (in 2p vs. mode only).
MAGIC
Nice!👉🏽🔟🔝
Super Double Dragon sfx sound.
Pazuzu's badass.
Ah, Amazoness! The womaness fightress!
Know thee authority of my horns
un truco para facilitar los agarres y los especiales
Gioco stupendo.. Si trova sul mame??
Data east made some strange shit back in the days
14:36 for one second I was afraid it's "this" kind of game
On hell no 💀
海外には面白そうなゲームが多くて、本当に羨ましいです。
¿alguien sabe si se puede conseguir? por favor pasen el dato este es un clasico...
Kaballero vans Creo que por medio del emulador MAME32
Dat character select screen funky music. 😎
Fighter michael David bowie gameplay 😁😎
How the actual fuck do you win lockups in this game
Is that guile?
No es la música original.
Minotaur have 96 year old! Not bad for his age...... hahahaha...
*MY FEET ARE HARRRD!*
My teeth* are hard
Esse jogo ta sumido
Parece el hyppodhrome
9:40 lmao
harryhausen vibes,
😃
VIAJE
이거 오락실에 있던 겜이였나
hassan
Hassan
I never pick the Fighter or the Amazoness. Their are the most boring characters in this game
This is almost like a gloriously bad 80s film
That's what made the 1980's AWESOME. NEVER DISS THE 1980s.
The dialogue in this game is terrible.