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SNK’s Cowboy And Samurai Beat ‘Em Up Coming To Virtual Console

By Spencer . October 30, 2011 . 8:32am

While Virtual Console is dormant in the States, Nintendo continues to add new games every month in Japan. Strider, Super Street Fighter II (with online play!), and an old SNK beat ‘em up called Sengoku in the West are some of the games on deck for November.

 

Sengoku looks like your standard Final Fight style arcade game, but with two key differences. 1.) A gameplay mechanic warps players to feudal Japan randomly in levels. 2.) The characters are a futuristic looking dude and a cowboy. A cowboy who can transform into a ninja or samurai.

 

 

SNK made two more Sengoku titles, but dropped the cowboy for the third game. Bomberman Hero, Sugoruku Quest, Metal Max Returns, and World Heroes 2 will also be available for Virtual Console next month.

SNKs Cowboy And Samurai Beat Em Up Coming To Virtual Console


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  • takopako

    i think this takes the cake in random games. haha.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Kamek20xxExtra?feature=mhee Michael Stevens

    I didn’t know that these games even existed. How random.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ricardo-Guedes/100000507969412 Ricardo Guedes

      Wow.. Do you know Super Mario?

      • http://www.youtube.com/user/Kamek20xxExtra?feature=mhee Michael Stevens

        What’s that supposed to mean?! >:(

      • WilliamJasper

        There is no need to be rude…..if you are being rude.

  • WizardoftheBlueOrder

    I spent many dollars playing Sengoku on my local diner’s Neo-Geo machine back in the day. What a strange and fun game.

    So mechanically, it’s not that you can transform into the ninja or samurai, but rather that there are three…like “heroic spirits” that will occasionally be freed when you kill enemies, and you can hit the C button to pretty much have them possess you. (The one I most recall is the dog…beast thing.) Additionally, as you kill enemies, they’ll drop colored orbs. For your base characters, they give you swords, but for the possessed characters, they get nifty projectiles.

    That said, this game is hard. I only beat it after I got the ability to credit feed a free play. (Probably would have helped if I memorized where all of the “JUMP OVER THESE HAZARDS” moments were.)

    Like most beat-em-ups, it’s much better when played with a friend.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=685220688 Vince Vazquez

    I remember playing the Sengoku games in the SNK Arcade Classics Collection for Wii, which I got just to play Shock Troopers and Magician Lord, but ended up digging a few other games. ONE of the Sengoku games was among them (I don’t remember which one) – you can play as a ninja dog in one of the games. It’s pretty crazy, which makes it fun, but it’s also REALLY simplistic. Like, “one hit kills” simplistic – without combos, it plays more like Altered Beast than Final Fight. But it’s still pretty fun if you dig old school games. I would not buy it by itself though; it’s definitely one of those games you play for a few minutes than might never touch again. It’s good for a collection, then :)

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