The Combatribes

Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:



The Combatribes © 1990 Technos.



Three player simultaneous melee battle in which larger-than-life fighters battle against rival gang members. As well as being able to pick up objects such as motorcycles etc. and throw them at the enemies, players also have a number of interesting fighting moves that can be unleashed upon their opponents. These include picking up unconscious enemies and hitting OTHER enemies with them, as well as banging two enemies' heads together and smashing recumbent enemies' heads into the ground to finish them off.



TECHNICAL

Game ID: TA-0028



Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)

Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 8.5 Khz)



Players: 3

Control: 8-way joystick

Buttons: 2

→ Attack, Jump



TRIVIA

Released in June 1990.



One of the clown thugs in level 2 were inspired by the Joker character from the 1989 Batman film.



In Act 3, an advertisement for "Block Out" appears on the two sets of TV screens.



Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Double Dragon 3, The Combatribes - PCCB-00065) on 21/06/1991.



UPDATES

The US version is slightly different, it has the 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen.



STAFF

Software: Naritaka Nishimura, T. Saito, I. Kanakubo

Hardware: Kenji Nishikawa

Character designers: Koji Ogata, H. Shibata, T. Ando, T. Ohshumi

BG designers: Shinichi Saito, Masamichi Katagiri, Takehisa Izumiyama, Hideaki Sakamoto

Musics: Kazunaka Yamane

Sound effects: K. Mori

Music software: Michiya Hirasawa

Directed by: A. Tanimoto, Noriyuki Tomiyama



PORTS

• CONSOLES:

[JP] Nintendo Super Famicom (dec.23, 1992) "The Combatribes [Model SHVC-CR]"

[US] Nintendo Super NES (mar.??, 1993) "The Combatribes [Model SNS-CR]"

[US] Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console] (nov.20, 2009)



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