The year was 1992 and I was a freshman in highschool, thumbing through the latest edition of EGM when I stumbled upon an ad for Power Moves for Super Nintendo.
In those days all you ever heard of was David Koresh and the Branch Davidians and Street Fighter 2. Well to be technically accurate that is all a 14 year old would hear. I’m sure there were other events going on in the world but this is all I can remember right now.
Anyways Power Moves was a port of Deadly Moves, a Street Fighter 2 knock off that went mostly unnoticed (I’ve seen this game only once in the wild.) Well Kaneko ported this monstrosity with ugly box art. Why are two homeless freaks killing each other? Why is the white guy a hemophiliac? Do people really bleed like that? Well that’s the Genesis version. The Super Nintendo version is the same art but with sweat. Punching the blood out of someone seems almost realistic… but punching the sweat out of someone? Shesh!
The excitement doesn’t end there. The Genesis box features a screen shot and a ‘crowd cheering’ caption. Much like the advertisement in EGM…. except… for… some unknown reason the screen shots are hand drawn! Who advertises a game with hand drawn screen shots?
Apparently Kaneko.
Thanks for the memories!
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