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Barbarian (1996)

Release Date calendar
1996
Platform joystick
MS-DOS
Game Type type
Released
Max Players players

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Overview

While the title might stir up memories about gory 80's 1-on-1 fighting games, the platformer is actually one of the more blatant examples of Asian Donkey Kong Country exploitation. But of course, the ape who jumps through all kinds of standard platformer setpiece environments with awkward controls is totally not a gorilla at all, the game's lore rather depicts him as a primitive ancestor to man (hence the mistranslation "Barbarian"). The prerendered graphics couldn't look any more hideous (except for the awesome rubber look of the firebreathing two-headed dinosaur boss), with the cutscenes in-between stages, which show the protagonist doing all kinds of ridiculous anachronistic stuff, taking the cake. Like most platformers from Korea at the time, the game is also painfully short for a game released in 1996.

Alternate Names
  • 바바리안 (Barbarian) Korea Korea
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Cooperative

No

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Developers
SiEn Art
Publishers
Dream Soft
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