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Instruction booklet · January 1993

Power Moves

Fighting1–2 playersPre-ESRB

The story

Unlike most other fighting games, you can control only one character (Joe) in single-player mode. In two-player mode, you can choose to fight as any of the seven available fighters, and also choose a scenery. The game plays like a standard 2D fighter: you can punch, kick, and jump on you opponents, but the fights are not entirely 2D, since you can also take a few steps vertically.

Specifications

Released
January 1993
Developer
System Vision
Publisher
Kaneko
Players
2
Genre
Fighting
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Themes
Action
View
Side view
Multiplayer
2+ players

What the magazines said

No magazine scores on record yet.

BE KIND, REWINDJanuary 1993
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The Omaha World-Pixel
Week of January 1, 1993
Jan. 3

In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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