Vigilante

Vigilante was released in an era when actors such as Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Dam ruled the silver screen. Action movies were as american as apple pie. So as the movies had Rambo, American Ninja and countless other movies like them, the arcades had the likes of Double Dragon, Final Fight and P.O.W.. IREM decided to throw a game into the action beat em up category, thus was spawned.....Vigilante. Vigilante's story wont compell you with its plot twists nor its genius plot line. In fact this story has probably been used in some of the movies mentioned above. In Vigilante a gang known as the skinheads (although most of them have full sets of hair) have kidnapped your girlfriend, Madonna (her name was apparently changed for the Turbo Grafx version). It is up to you and soley you to save her. Throughout the game you must get to the truck which they keep her in, coincidentally by the time you reach the truck at the end of each level it speeds off at the nic of time forcing you to follow it to the next

A great conversion- as most of Irem's titles are. Great for a blast if you have friends over- nothing like seeing your friends get owned by a pipe swinging tough. Of course the game is a joke with the nunchuks- but it is something of a classic- if not a minor update of kung-fu. And actually- in the American hucard- your girlfriend's name is still "Madonna"...

Arcade gem from yesteryear, who's appeal lies heavily in its nostalgia...