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Bravoman

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Also known as Chōzetsurin Jin Bravoman, Chouzetsurin Jin Bravoman

is a 1988 beat 'em up video game developed and published for Japanese arcades by Namco. Described as a "comical action game", the player controls the titular character, a bionic superhero with telescopic limbs, as he must defeat the villainous Dr. Bomb ("Dr. Bakuda" in Japan) before he takes over the world. Bravoman can use his arms, legs and head to defeat enemies, and can also crouch and jump over them. The game runs on the Namco System 1 arcade board.

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It is catalogued under topics including 1988 video games, Arcade Archives games and Arcade video games.

Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.

Game data

Released
1990-04-09
User rating
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Genres
Action
Platforms
PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
ESRB
Everyone 10+

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The village of Nitta has been invaded by the army of Dr. Bomb, an evil scientist who is plotting to take over the world. Facing this crisis is Bravoman, who received his powers from Alpha Man to stand up against Dr. Bomb in the name of justice. The village of Nitta consists of 22 stages -- action stages that take place on the ground and shooting stages that take place underwater. Action stages use a unique control system in which the height of a jump and the distance of an attack changes depending on how long players hold down the button. Players collect the Luck Symbols that appear when th…

Released
1988
Genres
Adventure
Platforms
Arcade, Wii, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
Developer
Namco
Publisher
Namco Bandai Games, Namco

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publication date
1988-05-20
title
超絶倫人ベラボーマン
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is a 1988 beat 'em up video game developed and published for Japanese arcades by Namco. Described as a "comical action game", the player controls the titular character, a bionic superhero with telescopic limbs, as he must defeat the villainous Dr. Bomb ("Dr. Bakuda" in Japan) before he takes over the world. Bravoman can use his arms, legs and head to defeat enemies, and can also crouch and jump over them. The game runs on the Namco System 1 arcade board.

Conceived by Namco composer Norio Nakagata, Bravoman is a homage to 1960s tokusatsu films, parodying common tropes found in the genre, and Nakagata's love for synthesizer music. Many former staff members from Toei Animation were hired for the project, leading to the game's distinct art style influenced by anime. Bravoman's real identity, known as Hitoshi Nakamura, is a caricature of Namco's then-president Masaya Nakamura, whom the game was dedicated to. It is Namco's only video game to use pressure-sensitive buttons, which were reportedly easy to break. Following its initial release, Bravoman was ported to a handful of systems, including the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, Japanese mobile phones, and the Wii Virtual Console.

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