Battle K-Road
Battle K-Road (バトルクロード) is a one-on-one fighting arcade game developed by Psikyo in 1993 and released as well as published under Jaleco's partnership in Japan for the arcades in 1994.
| Battle K-Road | |
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 Japanese arcade flyer of Battle K-Road. | |
| Developer(s) | Psikyo |
| Publisher(s) | Psikyo, Jaleco |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release | January 1994 |
| Genre(s) | 2D Versus Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | Psikyo 1st Generation |
Gameplay
The game focuses mostly on reality fighting rather than fictional fighting. At the start of the game in one-player mode, the player will face against the other fighter that uses the same fighting style as the one the player chose. After the player wins against the opponent, the player will face against other opponents that use other fighting styles in the K-Road Tournament. If the player loses, the game will only allow the player to continue fighting through it with the character he used, and will not allow the player to choose another character.
The gameplay has a 6-button layout, but with command inputs different compared to ones in most fighting games released at the time. There are three punches and kicks for a few directions (weak, medium and strong). There are seven fighting styles featured in the game and two playable characters per style, for a total of 14 playable fighters.
Fighters
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Anthony Hawk
Masamichi Ohyama
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Rick Simpson
Jeff Howard
- Shinsaku Maekawa
John Anderson
Wolf- Dan
Cyborg D-9F- Cyborg T-8P
- Mitsuji Tanimachi
Harimaoh
- Tyssa Willing
- Yuki Fujiwara
Other
- Mr. Bear - The final boss of the game. Some of his moves resemble Ryu from Capcom's Street Fighter series.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Battle K-Road on their March 1, 1994 issue as being the tenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.[1]
See also
References
- "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 467. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 March 1994. p. 29.
External links
- Battle K-Road at The Large Cult Fighting Game March (in Japanese)
- Battle K-Road at the Killer List of Videogames
- Battle K-Road at arcade-history
- Battle K-Road can be played for free in the browser on the Internet Archive