Bad Street Brawler

aka: Bop' N Rumble, Street Hassle
Moby ID: 291
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In Bad Street Brawler, players take the role of the former punk rocker and current martial artist Duke Dunnegan, or alternatively the wrestler Gorgeous George (Bop N' Wrestle) or as a high school teacher pushed to far (Street Hassle) who finds he is the only one in the position to clean the mean streets from various thugs and loonies.

Gameplay involves walking through the streets and taking out any enemies that get in the way. Kicks and punches are your basic moves at first, but as the game progresses, new moves and attacks become available, and new enemy types to beat up as well.

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Critics

Average score: 48% (based on 11 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.1 out of 5 (based on 36 ratings with 5 reviews)

Mismatched gameplay.

The Good
An initially cute concept--clean up the streets so that Grandma can walk safely home. The graphics are well suited to the purpose of being a comic book in motion (if a bit blocky--see below). The street locations are nicely varied for a game of that era.

The Bad
A minor problem for me was the graphics; the character sprites were drawn a 1/4th their actual size and are doubled in size when plotted to the screen. The end result is that they are--understandably--blocky.

The main problem with the game, though is the gameplay. Once you learn all of the moves you can do, the normal enemies are way too easy--and the end-level bossess remain very tough.

The Bottom Line
If you like simple games that can frustrate you just as you're doing well, try it.

DOS · by Trixter (8952) · 1999

Unusual, your name is Bad Street Brawler!

The Good
Well, to be honest: the concept of this game confuses me. I suppose that some of the elements of Bad Street Brawler are original while also being very, very strange.

The Bad
First of all, lets talk about the main character. Now on the first screen, he looks okay. But when you go into gameplay, he just looks plain stupid! Who decided to make him wear a yellow tank top, extra short shorts (which are also yellow) and short yellow TIGHTS!

I think I said enough about him (for now). When you try to fight, you are given new moves each stage and some of them just don't work or they are plain ridiculous and you have to try to get used to them right after you got used to the last set of attacks you had.

The music is frustrating especially when you die. But that's not it. You are submitted to a 40 second loop of rubbish music which will wear down on your brain cells. One last thing, the enemies. Who even THOUGHT it would be a good idea to put skateboarders, basketball players and hip hop dancers in a fighting game.

There are many more enemies which I am failing to mention, but let's leave this game alone for now. I might come back to it in a few years time to see how we improved in gaming technology since the time of the NES.

The Bottom Line
Bad Street Brawler, is a very abnormal game, but not in a good way. This game may seem "cute" and "funny". But it is not worth your time or money. if you were looking for a good fighting game, you better pop street fighter 2 in your gaming console and enjoy that. Trust me, it took a very long time to enjoy Bad Street Brawler.

NES · by Arejarn (7353) · 2008

Old folks beating up on more old folks! I swear!

The Good
I was able to shut this game off before dying from hysterical laughter. Maybe it's the fact that practically EVERY single character here looks like a bunch of old folks trying to cane and gum each other to death as opposed to freaks and weirdos trying to slice one another's throats has something to do with it.

Or is it the fact that your character walks with his arms so low to his sides that he faintly resembles a lowland gorilla? Or perhaps it's those old women who beat the bejeebies out of you when you hit them. Oh, sweet revenge....grin

Or maybe it could also be that goofy as hell music that played when you were fighting geriatric punks on the street (the NES version's music not much better)!

Whatever case, I was laughing way too much at this.

The Bad
If you laugh too hard at this game, you may cause severe problems to your health.

Plus, there's that one factor too: the gameplay, graphics, sounds, and a music are all pitiful. End of story.

The Bottom Line
Bad Street Brawler: friends do not let friends play BSB alone. Make sure two people are there so they can laugh themselves silly (and hopefully not too much). It's either that or they'll just drop dead on the spot from the horrible gameplay.

This game deserves to have its girly butt kicked out the door! It's a stinky, stinky, port (and game) that should be outlawed and shot in the back.

DOS · by Satoshi Kunsai (2020) · 2001

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Trivia

Amiga

Unlike the other versions, the Amiga version was not an official release by Beam Software & Melbourne House. It was instead made by the Polish company World Software, whose developers enjoyed Bad Street Brawler so much they decided to make their own version for the Amiga using, among others, sprites ripped from the ZX spectrum version.

NES version

In the NES version, some enemy sprites are changed: the blind man was changed to a thug, grandma is now a small Italian, the basketball player is white and the skull on a bomb was removed.

Power Glove

Bad Street Brawler was along with Super Glove Ball the only games designed to showcase the Power Glove that were released. Two other additional titles were scrapped.

Sprites

Bad Street Brawler uses sprites that are doubled in height and width before being displayed. This results in big sprites, but they look blocky.

Stages

After stage 10 Bad Street Brawler goes into infinite repeat mode; stage 11 is the same as stage 6. However even the stages 6 to 10 are nothing more but rehashes of the stages 1 to 5 with more & tougher enemies.

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Contributors to this Entry

Game added by Tomer Gabel.

Commodore 64 added by B.L. Stryker. NES added by POMAH. ZX Spectrum added by Martin Smith. Antstream added by lights out party.

Additional contributors: Corn Popper, tbuteler, Martin Smith, Patrick Bregger.

Game added September 25, 1999. Last modified February 13, 2024.