Dangerous Streets

Dangerous Streets is a fighting video game developed by Micromania and released by Flair Software for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, and MS-DOS in 1994. It was poorly received by critics. Dangerous Streets was bundled with Amiga CD32s in The Dangerous Streets Pack.[1]

Dangerous Streets
Amiga CD32 cover art
Developer(s)Micromania
Publisher(s)Flair Software
Platform(s)Amiga, Amiga CD32, MS-DOS
Release1994
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay
Gameplay screenshot

Dangerous Streets offers two-player battles, single matches against the computer, and a tournament mode. The eight characters (Keo, Lola, Luisa, Macalosh, Ombra, Pinen, Sgiosa Capeli, Tony) can be controlled with either a joystick or a keyboard and have the ability to punch or kick in the range of weak, medium, and strong.

Reception

The game was derided by critics.[2] Stuart Campbell of Amiga Power gave it a rating of 3%, describing it as the worst game for the CD32 and one of the worst games ever.[3]

The Amiga CD32 version is included in Stuart Ashen's 2015 book Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, in which he remarks that Dangerous Streets looks "quite pretty" in screenshots, expressing that "characters are competently drawn and well-defined, and the backgrounds are colourful".[1] He however expresses that this is no longer the case when the characters move, as Ashen calls Dangerous Streets' animation "beyond laughable", and speculates that this was "a marketing strategy to make magazine reviews and the back of the box more impressive".[1] Ashen criticises Dangerous Streets' gameplay and controls, calling its fighting moves "an almost animation-free cavalcade of seemingly random, jerky attacks with no thought put into how they would affect the gameplay", and expresses that the controls "make no sense" and moving quickly is "a nightmare" due to the character's "bizarre" jump animations.[1]

References
  1. Ashen, Stuart (2015). Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of (1st ed.). London, England: Unbound. pp. 62–69. ISBN 978-1-78352-256-9.
  2. "Amiga magazines - Amiga Magazine Rack".
  3. "Dangerous Streets Review". January 1994. Retrieved 17 October 2011.


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