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Bad Dudes

Platform: NES Year: 1989 Developer: Data East Corporation Buy: Amazon

Bad Dudes is a platform beat-em-up where you play a, get this, bad dude, who must beat up a bunch of ninjas that kidnapped the president (best plot EVER!). The NES port is based off the quarter-draining arcade machine. You can choose between two different fighters, one meant to look like Bruce Lee, the other like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but they play exactly the same. Like the NES port of Double Dragon (NES), the quality of the game was severely degraded by taking away the simultaneous 2-player.

Screenshots

Music

The NES port didn't have the impressive graphics seen in some of the other ports, but they did a good job converting the music (or as close as you can get using the NES's audio capability). The original music composers were not credited in the NES port. The soundtrack is very small using a mere six tracks, but the music is pretty catchy, especially Stage, Type 2. The Japanese version of the game does not contain credits but the USA version does. Even though he is credited as I. Uchida, Takafumi says his real name is Junichi Uchida. The music was written in hexadecimal code.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Size	Listen
01	Walking Stages	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	2:59	2.8 MB
02	Riding Stages	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	2:17	2.0 MB
03	Karnov	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	1:00	893 KB
04	Boss	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	1:19	1.2 MB
05	Stage Clear	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	0:04	67 KB
06	Ending	James Sanderson	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	2:01	1.8 MB

Credits

• Ripper: Memblers
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Sounds: Masaaki Iwasaki credited as M. Iwasaki
  • Sounds: Shogo Sakai credited as S. Sakai
  • Sounds: Takafumi Miura credited as T. Miura
  • Sounds: Yuji Suzuki credited as Y. Suzuki
  • Sounds: Yusuke Takahama credited as Y. Takahama
  • Sounds: Junichi Uchida credited as I. Uchida
  • Uncredited Composer: Azusa Hara
  • Uncredited Composer: Hiroaki Yoshida
  • Uncredited Composer: James Sanderson
• Game Credits (Arcade)
  • Sound Azusa Hara credited as Azusa.H
  • Sound Hiroaki Yoshida credited as Maro

(Source: 1, 2, 3, Arcade (USA), Arcade (Japan))

Even though the game was developed in Japan, the Japanese release does not have credits, so the game designers probably decided to put a staff roll in before the USA version was released.

Game Rip

Ripping NES music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site. The rip contains sound effects. The recording was made using Not So, Fatso!.

Releases

Japan Title: ドラゴンニンジャ (Dragon Ninja) Platform: Famicom Released: 1989-07-14 Publisher: Namcot     USA Title: Bad Dudes Platform: NES Released: 1990-06-?? Publisher: Data East USA, Inc.     UK Title: Bad Dudes Vs. Dragonninja Platform: NES Released: 1990-??-?? Publisher: Ocean Software, Ltd.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/nes/bad-dudes - Moby Games.
• gamefaqs.com/nes/587103-bad-dudes - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_dudes - Wikipedia.