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Urban Champion (URBAN CHAMPION) is the first competitive fighting game for the Family Computer, announced by Nintendo on 1984-11-14.
It was first released for the Famicom and Nintendo VS. System for arcades in 1984, and later released for the NES in North America and Europe in 1986.
It is Nintendo's first 2D fighting game, eventually followed by the 1993 Famicom game Joy Mech Fight.
The game was first released in Japan on November 14, 1984, for the Family Computer; it was later released in North America and Europe in 1986 for the system's western counterpart, the Nintendo Entertainment System.
It was first re-released on November 11, 2002 as a set of cards for the Nintendo e-Reader.
The game was digitally re-released for the Virtual Console service, first for the Wii in December 2006, then for the Wii U in October 2013.
GamePro described it as a second tier Virtual Console game. 1UP.com's Jeremy Parish commented that he would rather have nothing at all on the Virtual Console in its debut week than Urban Champion.
He listed it as one of the worst Virtual Console games. 1UP.com's Patrick Klepek criticized Nintendo for releasing only this and Baseball in one week, calling both poor games.
He also commented that it didn't deserve the distinction of being Nintendo's first head-to-head fighting game.
GameSpot's Jeff Gerstmann called it tedious when it was originally released, and in the modern day is "about as boring as it can possibly be".
IGN AU's Cam Shea called it "god awful", and "worse than actually falling down a manhole".
GameSpot's Jeff Gerstmann called it tedious when it was originally released, and in the modern day is "about as boring as it can possibly be".
He listed it as one of the worst Virtual Console games. 1UP.com's Patrick Klepek criticized Nintendo for releasing only this and Baseball in one week, calling both poor games.
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