World Heroes (ALM-005) - Gioco MAME

Cart. SNK Neo-Geo MVS pubblicata 32 anni fa:

World Heroes © 1992 Alpha Denshi Company, Limited.

8 heroes from different time periods compete to thwart Geegus, the evil alien end boss! Includes an extremely fun and unique death match mode!

DATI TECNICI
Gira sull'hardware SNK "Neo-Geo MVS".
ID gioco: NGM-053

Giocatori: 2
Controllo: Joystick a 8 direzioni
Pulsanti: 3
→ [A] Punch, [B] Kick, [C] Throw

CURIOSITÀ
World Heroes è stato rilasciato il July 28, 1992. It is Alpha Denshi's first game in the fighting game genre. It was even the last game with the Alpha logo labeled within the game before the developer became ADK; however, the Alpha logo was last used on one of the arcade flyers of its sequel.

Due to the game's success in the fighting game market, the game was followed by a sequel, World Heroes 2, less than a year later.

The popular "Death Match" mode (removed from World Heroes 2 Jet and World Heroes Perfect) may have been inspired by the growing popularity of deathmatch style pro-wrestling in Japan at the time which was mostly made famous by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling.

Hanzo is based on the real Hanzo Hattori Musashige (just like Hanzo in "Samurai Shodown").
Fuuma is based on the real Kotaro Fuuma Nobuyuki (1581-1603).
Kim Dragon is Alpha Denshi's homage to Bruce Lee (1940-1973).
Janne is based on the real Jeanne d'Arc who was burned in 1431.
Rasputin is based on the real Gregoriy Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1917).
Brocken is loosely based on Rudolph von Stroheim from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Muscle Power is most likely based on the real Hulk Hogan (1953-20XX).
J. Carn is based on the real Genghis Khan (1162-1229).

The first World Heroes game is also the only game in the series where Kim Dragon is Chinese. He was then changed into a South Korean character for the rest of the World Heroes series.

The name of the Scientist who invents the time machine in the intro is Dr. Brown which might have been inspired by the character Dr. Emmett L. Brown (a.k.a. Doc) from the Back To The Future movies.

Pubblicazioni della colonna sonora:
[JP] Jan. 21, 1993 - World Heroes [GSM 1500 Series] [PCCB-00106]

SERIE

• World Heroes [Modello NGM-053] (1992)
• World Heroes 2 [Modello NGM-057] (1993)
• World Heroes 2 Jet [Modello NGM-064] (1994)
• World Heroes Perfect [Modello NGM-090] (1995)

STAFF
Producer and director: Kenji Sawatari
Planners: Kenji Sawatari, Kimitoshi Yokoo
Main programmers: Tat&MST (Tat), Marbo (Toshi), Yuji Noguchi
System programmers: Eiji Fukatsu, Makio Chiba, E-Chan
Programmatore suono: Makio Chiba
Creatori personaggi: Kazushige Hakamata, Takashi Hatono, Shinji Moriyama, Hideyuki Yamada, Sho No, Muneki Shiraishi, Kimitoshi Yokoo, Hajime Suzuki, Hiroyuki Toda, Akira Ushizawa, Hatsue Sakanishi, Katsue Matsuzaki, Rie Mori, Giga.S (R. Nakajima), Koji Fujita, Yasuyuki Sohara, Atsushi Kobayashi
Scroll designers: Kenichi Sakanishi, Takashi Egashira, Mitsunari Ishida
Music and sound effects composer: Hiroaki Shimizu, Hideki Yamamoto, Yuka Watanabe

Ringraziamenti speciali: Yukio Gotoh, Tsutomu Maruyama, Shinichi Tamura, Mitsunari Ishida, Ryu Hiroyuki, Yuko Nishino, Masato Mitsuya, Hideki Miyakami (SNK), Koji Hamada (SNK), Hideki Fujii (SNK)

CONVERSIONI

• CONSOLE:

[JP] SNK Neo-Geo AES (Sep. 11, 1992) "World Heroes [Modello NGH-053]"
[JP] Nintendo Super Famicom (1993) "World Heroes [Modello SHVC-WZ]"
[JP] Sega Mega Drive (1994)
[JP] SNK Neo-Geo CD (1995) "World Heroes [Modello ADCD-005]"
[JP] Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console] (2007)
[JP] Sony PS2 (2007) "World Heroes Gorgeous [Modello SLPS-25782]"
[JP] Sony PlayStation 2 (2008) "World Heroes Anthology"
[US] Sony PS2 (5 mag. 2008) "SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 [Modello SLUS-21724]"
[US] Sony PSP (5 mag. 2008) "SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 [Modello ULUS-10338]"
[KO] Sony PS2 (29 mag. 2008) "SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 [Modello SLKA-25424]"
[US] Nintendo Wii (29 lug. 2008) "SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 [Modello RVL-P-RNCE]"
[EU] Sony PSP (17 Ott. 2008) "SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 [Modello ULES-01105]"
[EU] Nintendo Wii (31 Ott. 2008) "SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 [Modello RVL-P-RJZP]"
[EU] Sony PS2 (21 Nov. 2008) "SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 [Modello SLES-55232]"
[JP] Sony PSP (21 Mag. 2009) "SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 [Modello ULJS-193]"
[JP] Sony PS2 (2009) "World Heroes Gorgeous [NeoGeo Online Collection The Best] [Modello SLPS-25933]"

CONTRIBUISCI
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