Sega's classic arcade beat-'em-up game, Golden Axe puts in the shoes of one of three heroes, each with his own reason for trying to overthrow the evil rule of Death-Adder, who - along with his forces of darkness - kidnapped and imprisoned the King and his daughter and stole the legendary Golden Axe.

This is a horizontal fighting game, where you basically take one of the three characters (a warrior, a dwarf or an amazon) and bash everything which stands between you and Death Adder himself.

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Alternate Titles

"戦斧" -- Japanese spelling
"战斧" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Sega Golden Axe	SEGA Master System
	Golden Axe	Genesis	$3.99
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User Reviews

Milestone in arcade to home ports.	Genesis	Majestic Lizard (658)
A classic beat em up.	Genesis	Mr. Huh (112)
We're off to see the Bringer, the wonderful Bringer of Death	Genesis	Liam Dowds (51)
An all-time classic. Period.	Genesis	aaron pridemore (11)
A good visual conversion of flawed gameplay.	DOS	Trixter (8804)
The king of a dead genre	DOS	Roedie (5212)
For those that crave something, anything! that offers some D&D-like action	DOS	Zovni (9425)
A travesty of the original.	Commodore 64	Gary Smith (65)
Passe Classic--Skip it	DOS	Yeah Right (57)
This game will always have a special place in my heart.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4429)

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The Press Says

Your Sinclair	ZX Spectrum	Jan, 1991	91 out of 100	91
The Video Game Critic	SEGA Master System	Apr 25, 2003	A-	91
Mean Machines	Genesis	Oct, 1990	91 out of 100	91
Commodore Format	Commodore 64	Dec, 1990	88 out of 100	88
Defunct Games	WonderSwan Color	May 21, 2006	85 out of 100	85
The Video Game Critic	Genesis	Jan 26, 2000	B+	83
Jeuxvideo.com	Genesis	Jan 15, 2010	16 out of 20	80
SEGA-Mag (Objectif-SEGA)	Genesis	Dec 13, 2007	7 out of 10	70
Game Over Online	iPhone	Jul 01, 2009	30 out of 100	30
Slide to Play	iPhone	Jul 01, 2009	1 out of 4	25

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Trivia

The Chicken Stinger is a creature you fight in the second stage of Altered Beast. This creature later showed up in Golden Axe as one of the Bizarrians that you can steal from the enemies in the game (it's now called a Chicken-Leg). The Chicken-Leg also showed up later in the arcade game Golden Axe: The Revenge Of Death Adder.

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