World Heroes

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Story: Dr. Brown, a scientist, perfected a time travel machine, and organized the "World Heroes" tournament for various fighters throughout all of history to combat each other. True to this plot, many of the fighters are based on actual historical figures.

General: World Heroes was a 2D fighter by ADK, and was clearly an attempt at cashing in on Capcom's smash arcade hit, Street Fighter 2, among other big fighting games at the time. World Heroes follows the same format as many of the other fighting games out in 1992, but instead of a 6-button layout, World Heroes uses only 3 of the standard 4 Neo-Geo buttons: one for punching, another for kicking, and the last for throwing. The former two buttons can be held pressed longer in order to deliver stronger attacks. Overall, the graphics weren't too bad; and the sound and music was halfway decent, but the gameplay just wasn't there...