Battle Monsters secret debug mode has been discovered almost 30 years later.
We must admit, Scarab’s fighting game Battle Monsters isn’t a title we have thought about much since we first heard about it back in the 90s.
The Sega Saturn title, which was originally released in Japan in 1995, was reviewed quite poorly when it finally ended up arriving in the West, leading the game to land with something of a dull thud into the already crowded fighting game market. Electronic Gaming Monthly’s review crew at the time, for instance, called it “one sorry mess of a fighting game” and said that it made the “worst fighting titles look like stars”. Meanwhile, other critics like Gamespot’s Jeff Gerstmann gave it a 4.5 out of 10, labelling it “a Way of the Warrior rip-off” and “a pathetic 2-player game”.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
Battle Monsters secret debug mode has been discovered almost 30 years later.
We must admit, Scarab’s fighting game Battle Monsters isn’t a title we have thought about much since we first heard about it back in the 90s.
The Sega Saturn title, which was originally released in Japan in 1995, was reviewed quite poorly when it finally ended up arriving in the West, leading the game to land with something of a dull thud into the already crowded fighting game market. Electronic Gaming Monthly’s review crew at the time, for instance, called it “one sorry mess of a fighting game” and said that it made the “worst fighting titles look like stars”. Meanwhile, other critics like Gamespot’s Jeff Gerstmann gave it a 4.5 out of 10, labelling it “a Way of the Warrior rip-off” and “a pathetic 2-player game”.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
