| Knuckle Bash | |
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| Developer(s) | Toaplan |
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| Designer(s) | Junya Inoue Nanpei Kaneko |
| Composer(s) | Masahiro Yuge Osamu Ōta |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
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| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, co-op |
Knuckle Bash[a] is a 1993 side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Toaplan in Japan, as well as North America and Europe by Atari Games.[2] It is notable for being one of the few titles by Toaplan that has not received any official port to home consoles as of date.[3][4]
In the game, players assume the role of professional wrestlers fighting against the Mad Bull Group organization to protect wrestling from corruption. Knuckle Bash was created by most of the same staff that previously worked on several projects at Toaplan and who would later go on to work at one of its offshoots after the company declared bankruptcy in 1994. The team were originally commissioned on making a fighting game similar to Capcom's Street Fighter II: The World Warrior but the project deviated from its original plan and became a beat 'em up title instead. As of 2019, the rights to the title are owned by Tatsujin, a company founded in 2017 by former Toaplan member Masahiro Yuge and now-affiliate of Japanese arcade manufacturer exA-Arcadia alongside many other Toaplan IPs.
- ^ a b Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). タイトー (Taito); 東亜プラン (Toa Plan); Atari (Atari Games/TWI); K (in Japanese) (1st ed.). Amusement News Agency. pp. 44, 50, 112, 156. ISBN 978-4990251215.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "お年賀状スペシャル!! 1994". Gamest (in Japanese). No. 107. Shinseisha. February 1994. p. 84.
- ^ Zverloff, Nick (31 January 2014). "Knuckle Bash". Hardcore Gaming 101. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ Thorpe, Nick (March 2014). "The Unconverted: Knuckle Bash". Retro Gamer. No. 126. Imagine Publishing. p. 43.
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