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Bushido

DOS - 1983

I played this game endlessly with my little brother on our state-of-the-art IBM XT. We were hooked by the fluid animations, cool fighting moves, endless enemies, and well-drawn oriental backgrounds. It also has a good mix of indoor and outdoor levels.

Try as we might, we could never beat the game at difficulty levels beyond 7 (9 is the hardest). At 7, the only way we could beat the sheer number of enemies was to keep our fingers pressed on the "punch" button :)

Definitely a standard-bearer for side-scrolling action games for generations to come.

Review By HOTUD

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Evert 12 Dec. 2022

For anyone interested, pressing "F2" puts the game in punch mode, "F3" is movement mode, and "F4" is kicking mode.

It took me quite a while to discover this bit of information on the internet. I am working my way through making reviews of all these old games, and just finding the control mapping can be quite the adventure sometimes.

Enjoy!

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blahblah 02 Jan. 2019

After playing games like Sopwith, Castle & 3-Demon, playing something like Bushido would blow your mind back in the day. It was like a real arcade game. Other games were usually ASCII graphics or some kind of strategy or adventure game. But, Bushido was a live-action beat-em-up. Even the CGA graphics were decent for the time. Don't expect it to be on-par with Street Fighter II. But, for the time, this was an awesome fighting game.

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Downloads

DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
49 KB

Extras

Manual Manual 1
Provided by Cary
DOS 2 KB English English

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