LOL this game. Yeah, to hell with buying any more Hu-Cards. The handful I own I bought back in the day. The EverDrive card allows me to play all .pce roms. Most PC-Engine CD games are still cheap and I've got more JRPGs than I'll ever finish.

I actually own a Vigilante card with the box and instructions my cousin gave me years ago with a few others when he broke his TurboGrafx-16 in a fit of rage due to Galaga '90. It's like a more modernized version of Kung Fu Master AKA Kung Fu. Most of the thugs attack you the exact same way as Kung Fu Master! Run up, grab you by the neck, and leech health.

When you have turbo on your controller (the real TurboDuo does) that fight with the first boss is fucking hilarious. You stand there holding the attack button.

(Dark, intense boss music plays in the background)

("Whirr" "Whirr" "Whirr"... as your nunchucks spin like a fucking whirlwind)

*THUD!!* bossman walks right into your shit and gets knocked back a step. Then, he tries to talk shit as he approaches again:

"I'll.." *THUD!!* "I.." THUD THUD

Hahahaha

Always thought the junkyard level looked awesome. What sucks for me though is eventually I run in to a boss or a pair of bosses that thrash me and because it's Vigilante it takes me forever to revisit it.

Yes. "If only Vigilante had some rubber bands," they say from their tanks.

Are they jacking up player one in front of a lobster bar?

Good point. They are skinheads but the ones I saw at grunt level are also redheads.

Say what you will about Cobra. They let their guys dress their feelings.

I'm a bit confused by the screenshot. Are the skinheads in the game actually gingers? Have they kidnapped Madonna in order to dye her hair red or something? These bastards and their fiendish plan MUST BE STOPPED!

(Played on an Analogue Duo.)

This was originally an arcade game of the same name. The TurboGrafx-16 version certainly looks and sounds nice. I have never tried the arcade version, I don't think, but I can't imagine the looks being any better for the coin-op.

This is a very standard side scroller, notable only because of how early in the genre's development is. You play a guy named ... well... I don't know. You play a guy who is trying to rescue a woman named Madonna, who the skinheads threw into a jail. I get the sense that they picked that name because Madonna the singer was very famous at the time. I guess this is like if I were to make a similar game with the nations reversed, and the antagonist had to go free someone named Sadaharu Oh.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/tJZTRRyc/vigilante01.jpg[/img]

You get are able to find a pair of nunchucks on the side of the street early on. The game then becomes a matter of seeing how quickly you can press the attack button. With real TurboGrafx hardware, the answer is very quickly, because it has a turbo button. My controller for the Duo does not, but that is ok, I could still press attack quickly enough to destroy all the thugs and bosses.

I did not like this game, because towards the end (I think?) of the first level, I was just sitting there striking the attack button, making the life bar of the boss guy go down. It was going to be over a minute. Maybe two. Too long! Much too long for this! Then I paused for a very short amount of time, and the boss guy hit me. I lost the nunchucks. It became more like a real fight, but still. That's crappy gameplay. FIGURE IT OUT, IREM!

I think they figured it out with subsequent games.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/0QJd6wYG/vigilante02.jpg[/img]

The jail-broken Analogue Duo made this possible, all the .pce game images are out there, so the cost to me is zero. The hardware HuCards are PRICEY, secondhand. And I'd still support any homebrew scene if it exists. We'll see.

Sorry, Vigilante! You do look and sound very nice though.