Vigilante (ビジランテ) is an arcade game developed and published by Irem in Japan in 1988, and was published and released in the U.S. by Data East.
The game's setting takes place in downtown New York City. The game's plot involves a lone, professional martial artist who became a vigilante to fight an evil gang called the Skinheads ruled by a man known as the Giant Devil, in order to protect his "turf" and save his girlfriend Madonna, who was kidnapped...
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Vigilante (ビジランテ) is an arcade game developed and published by Irem in Japan in 1988, and was published and released in the U.S. by Data East.
The game's setting takes place in downtown New York City. The game's plot involves a lone, professional martial artist who became a vigilante to fight an evil gang called the Skinheads ruled by a man known as the Giant Devil, in order to protect his "turf" and save his girlfriend Madonna, who was kidnapped by them.
The game is considered a spiritual successor to Irem's earlier game Kung-Fu Master and its Japan-only sequel, Spartan X 2, in which the main character uses punches and kicks to defeat the Skinheads in a 2D platform manner. He also can occasionally use a nunchaku against his enemies. If he gets hurt while holding nunchukus, he'll lose them. There are 5 stages in order of appearance: a street, a junkyard, the Brooklyn Bridge, a back street scene and on top of a building that is under construction. Skinheads with mohawk or spike hairdo...
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