Body Blows Galactic

Released

November 1993 on Amiga

Credits

9 people

Publishers

Team17 Software Limited

Developers

Team17 Software Limited

Moby Score

7.6

#5,136 of 163K

Critics

82% (18)

Players

(9)

Ranking

#325 on Amiga

Collected By

11 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Side view
Visual: 2D scrolling
Gameplay: Fighting

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: 3.5" Floppy Disk
Multiplayer Options: Same/Split-Screen
Number of Players Supported: 1-8 Players

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Description

In the follow-up to Body Blows, Dan and Junior (two characters from the original, based around programmers Danny Burke and Cedric McMillan Jr.) are representing Earth in an intergalactic fight competition. Five other planets are involved, each submitting 2 brave fighters - the advanced Titanica, the divided Eclipse, the prehistoric Gellorn-5, the morphed Miasma, and the matriarchal Feminion.

Combat works in a similar way to the original, with moves designed around a one-button controller, with special moves activated either by a particular joystick movement while jumping, or by holding the fire button to charge the move up. The one-player game sees you progress through fighting the other characters in turn. Multiplayer options include character Vs character duels and a 4/8-player tournament.

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Body Blows series

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Credits (Amiga version)

9 People

Conception	Danny Burke
Programming	Cedric McMillan Jr.
Graphics	Danny Burke
Sound-FX	Steven Nicholas Gary Nicholas
Music	Allister Brimble
Addditional Background Design	Rico Holmes
Disk Format & Protection System	Rob Northen
Project Manager	Martyn James Brown
Playtesting	The Wolves

Reviews

Critics

Average score: 82% (based on 18 ratings)

Players

Average score: 2.9 out of 5 (based on 9 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Trivia

Characters

As opposed to the first installment, "Body Blows Galactic" in its 1-player mode gives the player the possibility to select a fighter from all available characters. However, there is no boss or any other hidden character.

Differences between ECS and AGA versions

The main difference between ECS and AGA versions of the game are the backgrounds of the arenas. In the AGA version, they are more colourful and some of them have an extra parallax foreground. Nevertheless, the colours of the fighters are still the same as in ECS version. One more difference of these two versions are the stars in the main menu. In the ECS variant they are just passing from one side of the screen to another in a straight line, while in the AGA version they are circling around, creating a visual feeling of depth.