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Wonder Boy III - The Dragon's Trap

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Wonder Boy III - The Dragon's Trap was published by Sega and released for the Sega Master System in 1989. It's probably one of the best games ever made for the Master System. It has clean visuals, good music, open exploration gameplay and chain smoking pigs working as shopkeepers. Wonderboy 3: the Dragon´s Trap starts just at the moment in which Wonderboy in Monsterland ended, After killing the Mecha Dragon, (which reminds me of a giant robot chicken) the dragon curses the hero and transforms him into a green-skinned lizard. So begins the tale of the hero trying to defeat other dragons and retrieve his human form. Each form gives different abilities that allow the player to progress in a free exploration world. Each and every form has its own advantages. You get to start the game as the Lizard Man who can burp fires out of his mouth, turn into Mouse Man that can fit through small cracks and climb on walls, Piranha Man that can swim underwater, the mighty Lion M...

Final Fight

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This page started out as a Fanart for Capcom's 1989 arcade game, but later decided to add some sketches, intro and outro videos from sega CD versions and some text to go with it. Final Fight tells the story of Haggar, who is the mayor of Metro City, a shit hole burg overrun by a gang named Mad Gear. Calling these guys a gang wont actually do justice since every level you kill dozens of these guys and they still come in legions. To force the mayor into cooperation, mad gear kidnaps ex-wrestler turned mayor Haggar's daughter.   Haggar teams up with his daughters boyfriend Cody and some asian guy (who is strangely named as Guy) and like in every other beat em up game, the trio start walking towards the right side of the screen to smash stuff until they find Haggar's brat. To show how bad ass these guys are, the intro movie shows couple of gang members licking knives and bending pipes (that sounded like a cheap porn flick) and there is even a rather poorly ...