However fighting with ghosts doesn't seems very macho for me.
And when mentioning all these beatemups you touch only one side of machismo. What about women? Why aren't there Sex Crime or Paradise Cafe in the list?
If it was any platform, my vote would go for Duke Nukem (both muscles and women). At Spectrum maybe Butch Hard Guy. His name is nice.
what about horrace goes skiing. he'd get hit by a lorry, pay his 10 quid hospital fee then be back up the mountain, that guy was a double hard bastard.
what about horrace goes skiing. he'd get hit by a lorry, pay his 10 quid hospital fee then be back up the mountain, that guy was a double hard bastard.
I'm surprised Red Heat didn't get a mention. Arnie is so hard in that he only has a top half. The bottom half is doing a fun run whilst he drags himself along by the elbows and head butts and punches his enemies to death.
Argh what a rubbish game it is. Just tried playing it now. Seems the easiest way to progress through the levels is to do as little fighting as possible and keep ducking. That's not macho, that's rubbish!
He should definitely be on the list. Hard as hell he is. I wouldn't want to tackle a punch of wrinklies in my underpants. Not without some Murray mints to placate them.
Argh what a rubbish game it is. Just tried playing it now. Seems the easiest way to progress through the levels is to do as little fighting as possible and keep ducking. That's not macho, that's rubbish!
Pssh... I know. I remember seeing a preview of it in Crash, I loved the graphics and wanted it so badly when it finally came out. So I bought it, and it was indeed really cack.
I used to be lured in by graphics at times. I'd look at the 3 screenshots in a review and convince myself the game must be great even if the reviewer says it is pants. Always turned out the reviewer knew what they were talking about and it was indeed rubbish. Sadly the reviewer seldom seemed to know what he/she was on about when it came to so called 'Mega Games/Smashes'.
I voted Cabal. The Speccy version is actually even more macho than the arcade original... in the arcade, when you cleared a level, as the cordite smoke drifted across the hundreds of corpses and wrecked, burning machinery you left behind you (OK, they really just flashed then disappeared, but hey) your hero did a zany little jig and ran into the screen to reach the next level, accompanied by a dementedly cheerful little ditty.
Not that I am saying dancing is automatically un-manly per se, but in a game iotherwise composed of bullet-spewing carnage it does lower the average a touch :)
Not that I am saying dancing is automatically un-manly per se, but in a game iotherwise composed of bullet-spewing carnage it does lower the average a touch :)
Where's Street Hassle, there's no game more macho than that (even if the guy is just smashing pensioners and blind mens faces in, and a bunch of other characters who look like sideshow freaks :lol:).
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although I enjoyed Cobras laser sights very much in my teens.
I can show you some recently-incarcerated joy-riders which disproves that theory.
Call that macho? If you were really macho you'd just run through said forest and head butt them to death. :lol:
Naked, you forgot the naked.
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However fighting with ghosts doesn't seems very macho for me.
And when mentioning all these beatemups you touch only one side of machismo. What about women? Why aren't there Sex Crime or Paradise Cafe in the list?
If it was any platform, my vote would go for Duke Nukem (both muscles and women). At Spectrum maybe Butch Hard Guy. His name is nice.
The first game I had for the speccy. The fact you actually get to hold a real gun (well, not REAL, but you know what I mean...) makes it proper macho!
Also, if you play it for long enough, the flashing screen every time you fire induces similar effects to various war-syndromes!!!
Only down to the waist. Any more than that and you're definitely in Village People territory.
That's pretty much waaay up there on the macho scale.
Yes, you're right. I'd add Legend of the Amazon Women. Those babes
fighting against other babes... mmmmm :lol:
:lol: haha I laughed so hard when I read this!
Argh what a rubbish game it is. Just tried playing it now. Seems the easiest way to progress through the levels is to do as little fighting as possible and keep ducking. That's not macho, that's rubbish!
He should definitely be on the list. Hard as hell he is. I wouldn't want to tackle a punch of wrinklies in my underpants. Not without some Murray mints to placate them.
Pssh... I know. I remember seeing a preview of it in Crash, I loved the graphics and wanted it so badly when it finally came out. So I bought it, and it was indeed really cack.
You're too macho for the Spectrum. Get a real computer, like a C64. :grin:
a guy alone, kicks the hell out of every gang just so he can get laid...you don't get much more macho than this!
Not that I am saying dancing is automatically un-manly per se, but in a game iotherwise composed of bullet-spewing carnage it does lower the average a touch :)
guns for show, knives for a pro. :smile:
legend fo cage, for some slashing action.