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“I from God knows what. It was cally hop-

ping to wher-
definitely a monstrosity, but it
was a monstrosity I had to
ever he
pity da fool who don’t
own this game!” have in order to play Rocky. pleases.
The four
After popping the cartridge
In writing this review, I knew in and choosing your boxer and buttoned
that line would have to come into degree of difficulty, you are controller
play. I felt it best to get it out of the greeted by a very impressive allows for
way early on. image of two offen-
Rocky Super Rocky Clubber Takes a Nap sive punches
Action Boxing was posing to and two de-
definitely a show- the electronic fensive blocks. Two gauges at the
case game, dem- hum of his top of the screen alert you to the
onstrating the theme song. daze and fatigue level of your
power of the Cole- This is boxer. A blue square will fill in with
coVision. At the where the black when too many shots to the
time, when the game begins head are received and the boxer
screenshots were to lack a bit becomes dazed. Fatigue results
released to the in the game from too many body blows, and a
videogame maga- play depart- small gray box will fill with red to
zines, they had to ment. Mov- indicate the level of exhaustion.
impress upon us ing your Since your best objective is to go
that “these are Not an artist’s rendition! boxer is for a knockout, the best strategy is
not artist mock- more akin to dole out equal poundings to both
ups!” The screenshots showed to moving a Sumo wrestler. The the head and the body. Filling the
Rocky Balboa and Clubber Lang instruction manual promises “quick blue box will result in a knockout,
duking it out in a boxing ring. The maneuvering.” Don’t count on it. but couple it with a full red box and
amazing thing was that they actu- These pugilists tend to your opponent is not
ally looked like who they were waddle around the ring likely to get back up.
meant to look like. Clubber Lang rather than dance. In This is, of course,
(Mr. T) had his trademark Mohawk fact, the closest they the most fun in the
haircut, and Rocky had what ap- get to dancing is when “Head to Head” op-
peared to be a dumb expression on they fall into a “clinch” tion, where you get
his face. and the ref to beat one of your
In order to play the has to break friends senseless.
game, you had to have it up. Rocky Super Ac-
the Super Action Control- Their tion Boxing is not a
lers. They look more like movement is Rocky Wins! bad game, but it’s not
clumsy weapons than limited to back and forth a great game either. It’s visually
game controllers. These and up and down. Never wonderful, but some of that power
huge devices feature a at any point are they able could have easily been used to en-
joystick, keypad, and to circle each other. hance the game play.
roller on top, and four trig- Rocky is always on the
ger buttons below. There left and clubber is always Overall Rating: B-
is also a plastic guard to on the right. And the
shield your trigger fingers referee is always magi-
Super Action CGM
Controller
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