Urban Champion

Nintendo really raised the bar for this title screen.

Publisher: Nintendo
Year: 1986
Genre: Fighting


In Urban Champion, you play one of two apish street brawlers who punch one another for no readily discernible reason. You have two attacks, a weak on that's quick and a strong one that sends your opponent tumbling like an extra in one of West Side Story's musical numbers. I have heard it said that tragedy is when I stub my toe and comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die. If this is indeed the case, then Urban Champion has one of the funniest endings of all time!

Yeah, Barber Shop made me want to
murder people, too.

John's Rating: 2.0 out of 5.0. It's a fun game for a very short period of time, but it lacks replayability, primarily because if you lose at this game, you probably just suck at video games.