Bad Dudes (NES)

Bad Dudes

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

For other games in the series, see Bad Dudes.

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

The title screen. Couldn't they just be named Mike and Steve? I'm totally a bad enough dude bro! This game is rad! In real life, ninjas don't wear bright blue pajamas. Karnov needs a smack down. Like all bad dudes, I can shoot fire from my fists!

Music

VGMPF Album Art

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	Listen	Download
01	Fist of Fury	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	2:51		Download
02	Lightning Speed	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	2:17		Download
03	Karnov	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	0:50		Download
04	Dragon Ninja	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	0:50		Download
05	Clear	Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	0:03		Download
06	Ending	James Sanderson	Masaaki Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama, Junichi Uchida	2:00		Download

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
  • Not Credited Composer: Azusa Hara
  • Not Credited Composer: Hiroaki Yoshida
  • Not Credited Composer: James Sanderson

(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

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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 - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/nes/587103-bad-dudes - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_dudes - Wikipedia.