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Dangerous Streets cover

1993 · Beat 'em up · Fighting

Dangerous Streets

Dangerous Streets is a colorful sprite-based fighting game in the vein of Street Fighter II. Its eight characters are diverse, ranging from fashion models to a bizarre monster "custodian".

Released
1993
Platforms
AmigaAmiga CD32MS-DOS
Genres
Beat 'em upFighting
Developers
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Publishers
Flair Software
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Action
Country
United Kingdom

About

Dangerous Streets is a fighting game developed by Italian game studio Micromania and released by Flair Software for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, and MS-DOS in 1993. It was poorly received by critics. Dangerous Streets was bundled with the CD32 in The Dangerous Streets Pack.

Keywords

  • martial arts
  • gravity
  • hand-to-hand combat
  • side-scrolling
  • nudity
  • character select screen
  • human
  • special attacks
  • native american
  • melee
  • pack-in game
  • overweight character

Media

Dangerous Streets screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Dangerous Streets offers two-player battles, single matches against the computer, and a tournament mode. The eight characters can be controlled with either a joystick or a keyboard and have the ability to punch or kick in the range of weak, medium, and strong. The characters in their portraits below the playfield will appear more injured as they take more damage in game.

Sgiosa Capeli, a musically tasteless DJ at one of the roughest night spots in Italy who also appears to be a master of Shotokan karate.

Reception

The game was derided by critics. Stuart Campbell of Amiga Power gave it a rating of 3%, describing it as the worst game for the CD32 and one of the worst games ever. Amiga CD32 gamer gave the game a score of 2 out of 10, remarking that the "animation reveals the artist's complete lack of understanding human physiology and is painful to watch. There's also far too few frames of animation, movement is too fast and control is lousy. Whoever put this in the CD32 pack has a complete contempt for gamers, or is in the paid employ of Sega."

Among non-English reviewers, the French magazine Joystick unusually gave the game a more positive rating of 65%. The German magazine Amiga Joker gave the game a score of 20%, giving mixed reception to its graphics and sound but deriding its gameplay.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Amiga CD3231 December 1993Worldwide
Amiga31 December 1993Worldwide
MS-DOS31 December 1994Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Included in
Dangerous Streets / Wing Commander

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