It was a 1v1 fighting game, ala mortal kombat, but the fighters were various types of monsters, like one was a medusa or something similar, I THINK each one was based off some sort of monster of lore, but this was a while ago. Backgrounds were ancient temples and the like.
They were statues brought to life or something, as when an opponent was defeated, they would revert back to stone and become a statue again.
This came into my head for some damn reason, and I really want to find out the name, and to conceivably find a rom of it somewhere to play it again, as at the time I recall it being really damn awesome.
Sorry for being so vague, all I remember from it 
It was all monsters though, I remember that much, one of the fighters had the lower body of a snake for instance
Featured Medusa and Frankenstein among others, but was a 3-D fighter for the PS1... so even the 3-d eliminates it from being the candidate even it was a port
Yeah JJF, I am thinking it is older than Mortal Kombat as well, but that was when I played it at a little corner store near our old insurance company's building, went there one day while parents were doing insurance stuff... game just stuck with me for some reason. Really want to find out what it is to remember exactly what it was like.
Graphics were digitized like MK1 for arcade, but not nearly as pretty, more pixelated Vorago fucked around with this message on 11-01-2004 at 01:54 PM.
Bajah fucked around with this message on 11-01-2004 at 02:14 PM.
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From the book of Bajah, chapter 3, verse 16:
Have you looked here for anything familiar?
Couldn't find it there. Man, they need to sort that shit out by genre.
Edit: Here it is. Fighting Fantasy. JooJooFlop fucked around with this message on 11-01-2004 at 03:36 PM.
Problems though, in Fighting Fantasy, you are always the sword wielding guy who battles the monsters in order...
The game I am trying to find wasn't like that, it was a Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat set-up of "choose your fighter", they were all monsters or whatever, and you picked your fighter
Secondly, the sprites were a LOT larger, the FF ones are relatively small, 1/3 of the screen maximum, I remember this game was unusually small and crowded, the fighters were easily half the screen's height in size
Thirdly, the game was NOT that bright. The game had a really dark and gritty feel, lots of greys and blacks.
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JooJooFlop Model 2000 was programmed to say:
Well I dunno what game you're talking about but that's the one I was thinking of.
Maybe not, but that was still a great game.
I don't remember a game you are describing, so it must have come and gone before my time at the arcade. :/
No ideas at all on the name?
I have a great mental picture of what I saw of it while playing (I got my ass kicked, many times), but nothing useful like a name
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Vorago said:
No, sadly... only played it on two different occasions, like a decade agoI have a great mental picture of what I saw of it while playing (I got my ass kicked, many times), but nothing useful like a name
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors?
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A sleep deprived Gadani stammered:
PRIMAL RAGE!Maybe not, but that was still a great game.
yes, yes it was. 
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Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors?
No, I love the Darkstalkers games 
This game was not cartoony or over the top like DS is
Aside from a description of what a screenshot might look like, basically it is a matter of "I would know it if I saw it" Vorago fucked around with this message on 11-01-2004 at 06:59 PM.
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Vorago had this to say about pies:
Was a digitized 1v1 fighter, with a bad fatality system based off the last blow done, but which had some cool effects like cutting the guy in half vertically, or melting him (dunno). The characters were various martial arts and military people with batons and swords and such. Everything was poorly digitized, the backgrounds looked like badly digitized pictures of real world locations, and the animation was chunky at best.... but it was extremely fun for some reason, heh. The characters were motion captured, but not very well.
That sounds like Pit Fighter.
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That sounds like Pit Fighter.
Nope, not Pit Fighter... this one was purely 2-D, had like two dozen fighters to choose from (A soldier with a tazer was one of them, they were all really generic, killing the enemy with a crouching light punch liquified them for some reason). Graphics were about on par with Pit Fighter though, heh
Ah well
I'm going to float about the KLOV list and see if I can find it...
Doesn't mention Medusa, though. I almost think I know what you're talking about. I remember something with ancient temple looking things at our local Pizza Hut.
Jania Arindelil fucked around with this message on 11-01-2004 at 07:59 PM.
Only link I can find is this
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Jania Arindelil was all like:
I've seen mention of a sequel to one of those named Vampire Saviour. Was it that?
That's the translated japanese name for Darkstalkers
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
Choose from twelve characters (from a human/bird hybrid to a headless creature) with each having its own set of special moves, like juggling opponents in the air, and pit monster against monster in Battle Monsters. Select your warrior and take the fight onto one of the several different locals where each level's background is made up of multiple levels, allowing combatants to jump from one platform to another with two attack buttons and two jump buttons controlling the action.
I'm still looking for pictures.
Jania Arindelil fucked around with this message on 11-01-2004 at 08:39 PM.
Was this it?
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God this is going to drive me insane
I wish it was still around
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Indeed...I've wanted to play Dragon Force again for so long now.
That was the coolest game ever.
Leon ruled.
Sega Genesis.
So this could be your game, Vorago. Wouldn't surprise me. Looking through a listing of Saturn games, there's a surprising number of arcade games that I find myself thinking "gee...didn't that come out BEFORE the Saturn era?" about.
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How.... Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael.... uughhhhhh:
[QB]I'd assume that was it. A lot of arcade fight games were, for some reason, ported over to Sega systems. For instance, there was one gory fight game called "Time Killers" where murderous weapon-wielding freaks were pulled from throughout time to do battle with one another. There was a dude with a chainsaw, a primitive with an axe, a future guy with lightsabers, etc. You could progressively hack off the other guy's limbs bit by bit and finally decapitate him (or her) for the win. Saw it in arcades then never saw it for a good while. And when I did see it again, what system did it port to?Sega Genesis.
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oh man that game was cool hahah
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about dark elf butts:
I'd assume that was it. A lot of arcade fight games were, for some reason, ported over to Sega systems. For instance, there was one gory fight game called "Time Killers" where murderous weapon-wielding freaks were pulled from throughout time to do battle with one another. There was a dude with a chainsaw, a primitive with an axe, a future guy with lightsabers, etc. You could progressively hack off the other guy's limbs bit by bit and finally decapitate him (or her) for the win. Saw it in arcades then never saw it for a good while. And when I did see it again, what system did it port to?Sega Genesis.
So this could be your game, Vorago. Wouldn't surprise me. Looking through a listing of Saturn games, there's a surprising number of arcade games that I find myself thinking "gee...didn't that come out BEFORE the Saturn era?" about.
It isn't. No monsters, and the graphics are cartoony.
Big king of space is killed, leaders of various planets battle each other to determine the new leader
This game was violent, real violent. You could hack of arms, legs, cut a person in half or decapitate them. The controls were set up as "Right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg", attempting to attack with a missing limb resulted in a squirt of blood, heh. Each fighter had a gauntlet on their right hand which made their attacks stronger or faster etc., it could be thrown or hacked off and taken by your opponent. Certain attacks required certain limbs to operate, no throwing grenades with your left arm if your left arm is missing. Some weapons, like a shoulder mounted rocket launcher, worked independant of your limbs and were required to achieve a "Limbless victory".
Every time you beat an opponent, you got a special attack from them along with a visual representation. Beat the guy with his left eye replaces with a laser weapon? Now your left eye is replaced with the same thing.
Fatalities, rather than be a button combo, were instead a series of attacks that combined formed the fatality.
Like, as the ice guy, you had to freeze them, melt yourself, slide under them and reform inside them in order to shatter them in a huge gory spray, called, "Bloody Slushie". Certain stages had character specific fatalities too, one level was on a catwalk over a pool of acid, and one character could plant a mine under the person's feet to blow out the catwalk and make them fall in and dissolve.
Fights were best of 3, but if you scored a decapitation it was an instant win. Hidden bosses, several of which had unfair gauntlets if you could manage to steal them, it saved your character with a button combination so you could load him up later on that machine and wreck havoc.
After the fight, when it goes "soandso wins", there was several hundred taunts you could activate with various button combinations.
Game was some serious awesomesauce, but only ever seen one place that had it
Anyone know a good arcade rom site? Want to try and dig up a rom and emulator for Blood Storm, loved that game.
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A sleep deprived JooJooFlop stammered:
It isn't. No monsters, and the graphics are cartoony.
I didn't say Time Killers was his game, I gave that example as a "for instance" in response to his hesitation that it would've been home-released for the Saturn.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael said:
I didn't say Time Killers was his game, I gave that example as a "for instance" in response to his hesitation that it would've been home-released for the Saturn.
Oh, the "So this could be your game, Vorago." threw me off.
