Ultimate Body Blows
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Ultimate Body Blows is a 1994 Amiga CD32
and DOS
fighting game
. It is largely an amalgamation of Body Blows
and Body Blows Galactic
released in 1993 by Team 17, featuring characters and locales from both games but using the HUD and menu interface of the first game. To this end, the game is comparable to Midway's Mortal Kombat Trilogy
, although the gameplay (and several of the characters) perhaps owe more to Capcom's Street Fighter
series.
Amiga CD32
The Amiga CD32, styled "CD32" , was the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console released in western Europe, Australia, Canada and Brazil. It was first announced at the Science Museum in London, United Kingdom on 16 July 1993, and was released in September of the same year...
and DOS
DOS
DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...
fighting game
Fighting game
Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...
. It is largely an amalgamation of Body Blows
Body Blows
Body Blows is an Amiga Versus fighting game game. It was released in 1993 by Team 17. The game is compatible with all Amiga systems, including the CDTV system with joystick support. It was followed by Body Blows Galactic and Ultimate Body Blows. A version for DOS was also released...
and Body Blows Galactic
Body Blows Galactic
Body Blows Galactic is a versus fighting game and the sequel to Body Blows released in by Team 17 for Amiga computers. Opponents and background graphics were later merged into Ultimate Body Blows.- Gameplay :...
released in 1993 by Team 17, featuring characters and locales from both games but using the HUD and menu interface of the first game. To this end, the game is comparable to Midway's Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Mortal Kombat Trilogy is a fighting game developed and published by Midway in 1996. It is a compilation of content from the previous Mortal Kombat titles, based primarily upon the gameplay mechanics of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3...
, although the gameplay (and several of the characters) perhaps owe more to Capcom's Street Fighter
Street Fighter
, commonly abbreviated as SF, is a series of Fighting Games developed in Japan in which the players pit the video games' competitive fighters from around the world, each with his or her own unique fighting style, against one another...
series.