Who knows the game's title? Expert needed

[Akuma]

Hello everyone.

As the subject line already suggests it, I need to know the title of an arcade game which was put up in a pizza parlor near my school about 12 years ago. I can't remember exactly, but I guess that I never played it and put my money into the Street Fighter CE and Mortal Kombat 1 cab, which stood right next to it.

This might be the reason why I never really got the name of the game. All of you who expected a screenshot - I don't got one. All I have is one hint and some guesses:

Hint: The continue? screen showed the chosen hero put in ropes with a burning stick of dynamite in front of him with the obligatory countdown

Guess (not sure if I remember it correctly): The game was a 2D scroller beat 'em up
Guess: The game's setting was modern time - NO medieval or fantasy style
Guess: You could choose between 2 or 3 heroes - if 3, then maybe one was female

Okay - I know, I know... This is pretty thin, but maybe there are some experts in here who know about the game - a dynamite countdown continue screen is somewhat special, isn't it?

So? Anyone got an idea, which game I am looking for?

Cheerio : )

[u_rebelscum]

Final Fight?

[DarkBubble]

Sounds like Final Fight to me.

Edit:  You rebel scum, er...u_rebelscum!

[Akuma]

erm... that's... strange! Because I forgot to mention, that it wasn't one of the famous Final Fight or Double Dragon, because I always watched it in attraction mode and the title was none I remembered from consoles. BUT I just checked Final Fight and YES, it has a dynamite continue screen. But somehow it's not as I remember it.

So my thesis is that either, it is the game I am looking for but the cab 12 years was running a bootleg or something with an alterned name - OR - there is a game out there which is a Final Fight clone... Well... I tend to believe the first - it's strange how you are memorizing things different... reminds me of electronicaly stored data which gets corrupted during time thanks to magnetism : ))

[Crowquill]

I'd still think it was Final Fight. It had one of the coolest continue screens of any game. Probably the only one cooler was Ninja Gaiden. With all of the clones that came out in those years the "dynamite screen" could have been copied too. I can't think of any that had it though.

Many of Capcom's games had different titles in different regions. Final Fight wasn't one of them.

I always thought it was fun to play Final Fight after SFII since they seemed to take place in the same game world. It wasn't until a few years ago that I found out that the working title for it was "Street Fighter '89". They were also formally tied together later on when FF characters appeared in the Street Fighter Alpha games (Guy, Rolento, Sodom, and Cody) and Street Fighter Three (Hugo and lots of FF characters in his background). Saturday Night Slam Masters also ties the two game series together.

[Xam]

Undercover Cops? Though I don't remember what the continue screen looks like on it.

Xam

[bfauska]

Well I took a look at some of the old horizontal scrollers I could think of and came up with nothing, other than an opening sequence with a hilarious tagline...

"The skinheads have taken Madonna hostage, take the law into your own hands."

Anybody know what game it was.  I'll give you a cookie if your right, well not really, but you can pretend I gave you a cookie and dip it into a pretend glass of milk.

[mrserv0n]

"The skinheads have taken Madonna hostage, take the law into your own hands."

Anybody know what game it was.  I'll give you a cookie if your right, well not really, but you can pretend I gave you a cookie and dip it into a pretend glass of milk.

Vigilante

[bfauska]

  One big imaginary cookie for you.

That line just cracks me up.

I got no idea what the other game could be though other than the previous suggestions. 

[Crowquill]

Games of this era were definitely not known for their gripping dialog. Even the endings weren't safe:

[shardian]

Yeah, the Ninja Gaiden continue screen is awesome. And I saw it alot in my day.

[severdhed]

was it possibly Cadillacs and Dinosaurs? 


and for storyline, don't forget this classic...

[weasel-like_animal]

BAD DUDES!!!

[Malenko]

Games of this era were definitely not known for their gripping dialog. Even the endings weren't safe:

I was never as pissed at an ending then I was with this one, my buddy and I dropped like $20 in a machine together to beat it.

was it possibly Cadillacs and Dinosaurs? 


and for storyline, don't forget this classic...

he showed the ending to this a few posts up..... they are both from bad dudes.

to the OP, here are my guesses:

Ninja Warriors: (modern day, female selectable)
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8892

or maybe Ninja Combat: (modern day)
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8878

lastly Captain Commando
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7276

at least it ran on the same hardware as Final Fight


Honestly though, when you said Dynamite on the continue screen my first thought was Final Fight as well. Also, the Ninja Gaiden screen is awesome sauce. If you could maybe describe what one or more of the heroes looked like then maybe we could help more. Video game nerds unite!

[ahofle]

Games of this era were definitely not known for their gripping dialog. Even the endings weren't safe:

OMG people were running into my office to see what was wrong I laughed so hard at that screenshot.

[Akuma]

Ahm, YES - it was Final Fight!

I played with Guy yesterday and as I said the dynamite scene was somehow not the way I remembered it. Well, played with Cody today and BANG! somehow it hit me! So I must have seen someone playing as Cody 12 years ago : ) Funny, how time goes by. But I am 100% sure, that the game title was altered (maybe a bootleg). When I was watching the atract mode I concentrated on the title since I didn't knew the game and wanted to know it. I knew about the SNES Final Fight from magazines, though I haven't seen it live then or even played it. So if the game would have displayed the title Final Fight, I would have remembered it! : )

Lol - what game is that Reagan screen from?

[Crowquill]

The full title is Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja. Despite the cheesiness, it wasn't a bad game. You think it looks cheesy? You haven't heard the voice sample saying "I'm Bad!" whenever you clear a level.  I always thought it was cool that Karnov was in it too. Maybe it's all my years of reading comics, but I've always liked some shared continuity between games.

Games of this era were definitely not known for their gripping dialog. Even the endings weren't safe:

and for storyline, don't forget this classic...