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The arcade version, in the game magazine Gamest's feature "The 6th Gamest Grand Prize" (fiscal 1992), took 3rd place for the Grand Prize, the Editorial Department Special Award, 2nd place for the Best Action Award, 4th place for the Best Staging Award, 7th place for the Best Graphics Award and 3rd place for the Best VGM Award.
It carries a premium, and as of 2016 it has been traded at 70,000 to 80,000 yen boxed and 20,000 to 30,000 yen for the cartridge alone.
In the game magazine Gamest's feature "The 6th Gamest Grand Prize" (fiscal 1992), it took 3rd place for the Grand Prize as well as the Editorial Department Special Award, and further 2nd place for the Best Action Award, 4th place for the Best Staging Award, 7th place for the Best Graphics Award, 3rd place for the Best VGM Award, 15th place among the year's hit games, and in the Best Character Award "Rosa" took 1st place.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 5, 4, 4, and 5, for a total of 18 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 15.4 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 6, 5, 5, and 4, for a total of 20 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 17.2 out of 30, as shown below.
A physical release with an official translation was released for the SNES by Retro-Bit. 3000 units were shipped to North America and Europe in October 2021.
It had originally been scheduled for release at the beginning of 1994, but in the wake of Irem's scaling back of its business it was cancelled for a time even though it had already reached master-up, and it was later released with the publisher changed to Varie.
The unreleased American version was reviewed in Vol. 58 of Nintendo Power.
It had originally been scheduled for release at the beginning of 1994, but in the wake of Irem's scaling back of its business it was cancelled for a time even though it had already reached master-up, and it was later released with the publisher changed to Varie.
Shipments of the Super Famicom version remained small, and the planned sale of the SuperNES version was also cancelled.
It was the company's first attempt at the modern beat 'em up genre, which had been established with their previous game Kung-Fu Master (1984).
In 2023, Time Extension included the game on their list of the top 25 "Best Beat 'Em Ups of All Time".
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