Virtual Console Reviews

i wonder if this means that we're getting Last Battle for sega genesis/MD because I loved that game as a kid (I never understood why everyone hated it)...

Last Battle was the sequel to this game. the soundtrack to that game rocked...

I'm not so clear on the Sega Master System. So did this system come before the Genesis or after. And is the English version called Black Belt or Fist of the North Star?

Sega Master System came before the genesis. Look at the art work for the cover, isnt that hilarious! Just a big comedy foot coming in off screen! HI-YAY!!

This looks too Vigilante & China Warrior for my tastes like.

before anyone else comments this page, i just want to say i agree with the comments above me(except deggs). @ Will, i saw the box cover for the other game coming to Japan's VC and i thought Sega was being ridiculous at the time. @ Demon212, kinda looks worse than both Vigilante and China Warrior combined!

The gameplay looks sorta like Kung Fu and very enjoyable. I'll probably buy this when it comes out.

I never was a big fan of sega master system. But then again, I never got to play more than 2 games on it This game looks cool anyway

game looks too repetitive. Dunno if ill go for it.

This game was one of the first I had for the Master System and, to be frank, it is dull, repetitive and at the back of the drawer where I keep my MS carts. All you do is walk to the right killing the endlessly spawning enemies, occasionally super jumping to collect food, etc. Okay, so later levels introduce diving hawks, jumping enemies and others armed with swords (the enemies with whips, knives and flamethrowers are sub-bosses); but the basic idea of walking a few steps and attacking will get old. When you've worked out a rhythm to killing regular enemies and learnt which moves/techniques you use against which end of level boss the game also ends up becoming ridiculously easy. Although there are worst games for the system I cannot recommend this game myself.

LOL. Besides the cover art on the box, the guys disentigrate into pieces when you hit them. Too funny. And when in the video the boss is beaten, you punch the living crap out of them. Reminds me of a brutality in Mortal Kombat. I think Nintendo just needs to release Kung Fu and be done with it.

"Besides the cover art on the box, the guys disentigrate into pieces when you hit them. Too funny."

Uh yeah, of course they explode. That's what Fist of the North Star is all about. It's like playing a Dragonball game and laughing at the fact that everyone can fly.

Black Belt is a 1986 side-scrolling fighting game released for the Sega Master System. It is a localization of the Japanese Mark III game, Hokuto no Ken (北斗の拳, Hokuto no Ken?), which in turn was based on the Japanese manga and anime of the same name (Fist of the North Star in English), although it was stripped of its license in the North American and PAL versions. It was one of programmer Yuji Naka's early games prior to his involvement in Sonic the Hedgehog.

Some nice info on this game..

Some boring gameplay and from a designers point of view and horrible box art as can be said for most master system games..

Sega Master System did have horrible box art, but they sure had some enjoyable games.

Is it sad that I can tell who most of the censored characters really are.