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Bad Dudes is a 1988 arcade game by Data East. The full official name of the game is Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja, but the latter part is almost always dropped since the marquee and title screen for the game de-emphasized it (it was in a much smaller font). The game was simply known as Dragon Ninja in Japan. The game is a scrolling fighter typical of the genre and era. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video or computer games. ...
Data East(データイースト) is a Japanese game company that filed for financial reorganization in 1999 and finally declared Bankruptcy in July of 2003. ...
Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ...
Data East(データイースト) is a Japanese game company that filed for financial reorganization in 1999 and finally declared Bankruptcy in July of 2003. ...
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This is listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ...
This is listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ...
Joystick elements: 1. ...
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1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Data East(データイースト) is a Japanese game company that filed for financial reorganization in 1999 and finally declared Bankruptcy in July of 2003. ...
This is listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ...
Overview "Rampant ninja related crimes these days... Whitehouse is not the exception..." Thus started the game's ominous intro.
Bad Dudes puts players in the shoes of two street smart brawlers bent on saving "President Ronnie" (Ronald Reagan) from a notorious gang of "Dragon ninja" The player must battle their way past hordes of ninja who have kidnapped the President. The game is separated into levels, each of which contains a boss to be defeated. Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air...
A ninja on the cover of Black Belt magazine. ...
Seal of the President of the United States The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ...
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Description The game is typical of the genre, with up to two heroes featured at once. The player uses a combination of kicks, punches and jumping to defeat the enemies. Each level contains a boss that needs to be defeated to progress to the next level. At the successful completion of each level, the dude(s) strike a "bad" pose and proclaim, "I'm bad!"
Along the way, the player will come across several power-ups. Some are weapons, such as nunchaku and knives. Some recharge a player's health, such as a soda. Yet others add a few seconds to the remaining time. Upon contact with this Super Mushroom, Mario earns 1000 points and doubles in size In video games, power-ups are objects which add extra abilities to the game character, and/or increase the players score upon being collected. ...
A nunchaku (Chinese: é›™ç¯€æ£ shuÄng jié gùn, å…©ç¯€æ£ liÇŽng jié gùn, or ä¸‰ç¯€æ£ sÄn jié gùn), also called nunchucks or nunchuks (sometimes hyphenated as nun-chucks or nun-chuks or spaced as nun chucks or nun chuks), is a martial arts weapon of the kobudo weapons set...
traditional Scandinavian puukko knife A knife is a sharp-edged hand tool used for cutting. ...
The various types of enemies encountered in the game have their own special means of attack. The normal ninja directly charge the player, while some jump, throw star-darts or appear out of thin air and drop on the player. A few of them set themselves on fire and charge the Bad Dudes. The level bosses also have special attacks. One, for example, can breath fire at the player.
This game allows for two players to play cooperatively simultaneously.
 In Bad Dudes, as a street-smart fighter, the player battles hordes of evil ninja. The cabinet for this game is a standard upright. The controls consist of an 8-way joystick and two buttons. One button is used for jumping, the other for attacking (sometimes just taking action, like picking up a power-up). Joystick elements: 1. ...
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. After saving the President, Reagan appears in the Oval Office and delivers this line: The Oval Office is the official office of the President of the United States, in the West Wing of the White House, built in 1902. ...
- "Hey Dudes Thanks, for rescuing me, Lets go for a burger... Ha ha ha ha!"
Ports  The NES intro screen. Note that the President was not named, unlike in the original arcade version. The game was ported to several home systems for personal use. Bad Dudes was ported to the Apple II, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and DOS in 1988. In 1989 it was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System. In computing, a port (derived from seaport) is usually an interface through which data are sent and received. ...
The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ...
The Atari 520 ST The Atari ST was a home/personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. ...
In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ...
The Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. ...
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. ...
The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ...
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Nintendo Entertainment System (North America, Europe, and Australia) The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia. ...
The NES version of the game used the compact name "Bad Dudes" without the "Dragon Ninja" addition, while the home computer versions were named the other way around ("Dragon Ninja" only).
The 8-bit versions (including the NES one) lacked the 2-player cooperative mode; if the players started a 2-player game, both players would take turns playing, switching when one lost a life.
The NES introduction to the game was phrased slightly differently:
"The President has been kidnapped by Ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?"
Also, in that version, the President did not resemble Reagan at all.
The home computer versions lacked the intro from either the arcade or the NES versions.
Trivia - The game acquired cult status based on its tongue-in-cheek scenario, including a zany introduction by a Secret Service agent:
"President Ronnie has been kidnapped by the Ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue Ronnie?" In my cult, we chop off our weiners. ...
The United States Secret Service is a United States federal government law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security (prior to the founding of that department in 2002, it was under the United States Department of the Treasury). ...
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