The Johnny Turbo line of games by Flying Tiger continues to expand courtesy of Data East's classic library of games. According to a post on the official Twitter account, the 1993 arcade beat 'em up Night Slashers is making its way across to the Switch in the near future.
https://twitter.com/ItsJohnnyTurbo/status/1041788208412061702
This title is often compared to Capcom's Final Fight series and is set in a much scarier world occupied by plenty of horrifying creatures and monsters such as zombies, mutants, werewolves, mummies, Frankenstein's monster, Count Dracula and even the Grim Reaper. The game includes three different characters with unique move sets and allows up to three players to participate in the fight, much like other Data East titles.
The original version of Night Slashers underwent changes during western localisation, with the inclusion of an option to change the colour of the blood from red to green. We'll let you know when we find out the exact release date. In the meantime, take a look at footage of the game below and tell us if you're in the mood for more retro arcade beat 'em up action on the Switch.
[source twitter.com]
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I love beat em ups. Too bad Capcom is being stingy with them in the beat em up bundle releasing this week.
Another one that won't get to Europe, I guess.
Looks fun.
Unsure of who owns the rights now, but Data East's RoboCop is a gem that needs porting.
Did anyone else find it funny that zombies were using the elevator as a means of travel in this clip?
By this time tomorrow my Switch beat-em-up collection will look something like this
Burning Fight
Mutation Nation
Robo Army
Sengoku 2
Sengoku 3
Wulverblade
Armored Warriors
Battle Circuit
Captain Commando
Final Fight
Knights of the Round
The King of Dragons
Warriors of Fate
Double Dragon NES
River City Ransom NES
I'll surely make room for Night Slashes too.
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I played it on an arcade machine as a wee lad many years ago... I remember this game's ROM being hard to obtain (or was it difficult to get to work with MAME?). It was a pretty fun beat 'em up.
Too bad it's Johnny Turbo and not Hamster, but maybe they got better with their wrapper. Definitely picking this up when available!
@nintendobynature and a hot and freshly cooked hotdog sandwich with toppings on the floor
@nintendobynature Ha, was going to write the exact same thing.
Personally I thought that it was hilariously. This is another reason to love these classics
@GameOtaku It has nearly every Capcom original beat-'em-up, including two previously arcade-exclusive games, with the only omissions being the Final Fight sequels and Dynasty Wars. (and Dynasty Wars kinda sucks, anyway, so I won't miss it)
As for the ones based on external IPs, such as Alien Vs. Predator and The Punisher, it would take a liscensing miracle for Capcom to get all of those in one collection.
Really like this one. Are the Johnny Turbo games still forcing the awful blur filter or have they updated to allow pixel perfect renditions yet? Not going to buy any of their releases until that changes.
See Capcom... See! Do you see?!?!?!?!!?!? Other companies are releasing their dark, other worldly beat 'em ups! So... Uhmmmm time for Darkstalkers, yeah?
Also, this is going on the wish list.
@sleepinglion That's a bit of a difficult one as firstly it's a license so MGM owns the overall rights, but the game itself is in fact licensed from the ZX Spectrum/C64/Amiga game by Ocean Software, whom I think were bought by Infogrames which became Atari which is now defunct.
More Beat 'Em Ups are always welcome!
@Seanmyster6
Final Fight 2 and 3 really should have been included, The Avengers a vertical scrolling beat em up is also absent. As far as Dynasty Wars even if you think it's subpar others though may love it.
@FragRed A shame, so many great tie-in titles are lost on generations that didn't grow up in the 80s. I enjoyed the Batman arcade port, too, and Capcom's overseas Willow machine.
@sleepinglion I agree. But not just licensed games, arcade games like the second Golden Axe won't be made available due to the copyrighted sounds it used. Though that never stopped Smash TV.
@FragRed I didn't know that about Golden Axe 2, but that explains why Sega leaves it off their compilations. It was a great title, too.
@GameOtaku If they're going for an arcade collection then I can see why they'd omit FF2 and 3, although I wouldn't be surprised to see them appear as hidden bonuses like the Sega collections always have.
I wonder if the issue with Avenger(s) and Dynasty War are the similarity of their titles with modern major IP? Possibly Koei Tecmo and Marvel now own the trademarks for similar titles to The Avengers and Dynasty Warriors...
Good game but the last few stages are a bit generic unfortunately. I wonder if the video emulation will be better than in MAME.
@FragRed The first arcade Golden Axe used voice clips from Rambo and Conan and it got re-released without any issues.
DANGTHEIRFILTHYSCREENFILTER!!!! Like, so annoying and a disgrace to a game like this
Johnny Turbo, stop playing around and remove the ugly standard filters, and give an option to play without them. You'll get more sales, simple as that. I've bought 0 so far, because of them, and I'm not alone.
@sleepinglion
I agree with that, the Robocop game was fantastic. Too bad the NES port was so bad.
As for this game, Night Slashers is actually a really good game. I've been interested in these arcade ports, but I have no idea who Johnny Turbo is and I'm not a fan of the filter that's being used.
@cheetahman91 When was the first arcade game re-released? I didn't know that happened.
White the hell is Dinossaurs and Cadillacs ?
Never seen this game before. Looks really cool.
Looks very fun, will definitely add this to my beat em up collection!🙌😁
Love beatemups. And I love that intro. Econoline van for the win XD
@BionicDodo
Remember Gun.Smoke not to be confused with Gunsmoke?
@FragRed It was released for the Wii VC.
@OorWullie how are mutation nation and robo army?
@GameOtaku Was playing that on NES last week!
@sleepinglion Played that on arcade as a kid at the laundry mat! Wicked stuff!
@GameOtaku Gun.Smoke has an alternate control mode that should be easily available and not something locked behind a difficult to enter code (the code itself isn't too bad, it's just needing to type the like 21-keystroke code within the roughly six seconds the title screen is displayed). Hard to mash it that quickly without making a mistake.
@BionicDodo @KingMike
My point was licensing issues should be easy to overcome with a little ingenuity. Like Gun.Smoke had the dot to avoid copyright infringement they could change one part of the games title (like instead of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs name it Cars and Dinos)
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is a little more complicated since it's not just the name.
They'd have to redesign any characters they didn't originally create (like how Nintendo can't use the Doki Doki Panic protagonists but everything else in the game is apparently theirs to do what they want with)
This one tops Final fight in my book and most people have never played it.
@Oat Both great
i told yall this was coming to switch!!!
one of the biggest games ive been waiting for...
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