Bad Dudes (0)

First release date

1988-01-01

Platform

Amiga Amstrad CPC Apple II Atari ST Commodore 64 MSX ZX Spectrum Nintendo Entertainment System Arcade PC Zeebo

Developer

Data East Corporation

Publisher

Data East Corporation Imagine Software Erbe Software, S.A.

Aliases

Bad Dudes

Are you a bad enough dude?

Released in 1988 (when was still actually president of the United States), Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja is a 2-D side scrolling beat 'em up in the same vein as , or .

However, by the time of the NES/Famicom release Reagan was no longer President, and has been replaced accordingly with George Bush. In the game's attract mode, players see the statement: "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"

Players, as protagonists Blade and Stryker (who were named unironically), can use knives and nunchaku to fight their way through levels, collecting power-ups along the way in the form of soda to refill lost life or clocks to add time.At the end of each level is a boss character.

Stage Name	Description
Stage 1: The streets of a city	The boss is .
Stage 2: On top of a speeding "Dudes" truck	The boss is a clawed ninja named "Nenail".
Stage 3: The sewers	At this point in the Famicom version of the game, the bosses begin to threaten the player before the beginning of the stage. The boss is a ninja named "Hanzo", a master of creating illusion copies of himself.
Stage 4: A forest	The boss is a gigantic man named "Animal", who is decidedly un-ninja-like.
Stage 5: A train	Karnov appears again in this stage, recoloured blue in the NES/Famicom version. Amusingly, he also turns blue in the game when he has been hit once. The boss is a warrior named "Killer Joe" who wields a claw on the end of a chain.
Stage 6: Caves	The boss is Kon Bousai.
Stage 7: The Dragon Ninja's HQ	All of the earlier bosses are fought a second time, with the finale being against the leader of the Dragon Ninja, coincidentally called "Dragon Ninja" himself, on a helicopter.