''Ultimate Body Blows'' is a 1994

Amiga CD32 The Amiga CD32 (stylized as Amiga CD32, code-named "Spellbound") is a 32-bit home video game console developed by Commodore and released in Europe, Australia, Canada, and Brazil. It was first announced at the Science Museum in London on July 16, ...

and

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. It is largely an amalgamation of ''

Body Blows ''Body Blows'' is a 1993 fighting game, developed and published by Team17 for Amiga. A version for MS-DOS followed the same year. The game has been compared to ''Street Fighter II''. It was followed by '' Body Blows Galactic'' and '' Ultimate Bod ...

'' and ''

Body Blows Galactic ''Body Blows Galactic'' is a fighting game developed and published by Team17 in 1993 for the Amiga computers. It is a sequel to 1992's ''Body Blows''. Opponents and background graphics from both games were later merged into the compilation releas ...

'' released in 1993 by

Team17 Team17 Group plc is a British video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher based in Wakefield, England. The venture was created in December 1990 through the merger of British publisher 17-Bit Software and Swedish developer Team 7. A ...

, featuring all the characters and most of the stages from both games, but using the HUD and menu interface of the first game. In this respect, the game is comparable to Midway's ''

Mortal Kombat Trilogy ''Mortal Kombat Trilogy'' is a fighting game released by Midway in 1996 as the second and final update to ''Mortal Kombat 3'' (the first being ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'') for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn and PCs. Further versio ...

'', although the gameplay and several of the characters are closer to Capcom's ''

Street Fighter , commonly abbreviated as ''SF'' or スト (''Suto''), is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fighting video and arcade games developed and published by Capcom. The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by six ...

'' series.

Reception

Stephen Bradley of

Amiga Format ''Amiga Format'' was a British computer magazine for Amiga computers, published by Future plc. The magazine lasted 136 issues from 1989 to 2000. The magazine was formed when, in the wake of selling ''ACE'' to EMAP, Future split the dual-format t ...

gave ''Ultimate Body Blows'' a score of 90%, praising the varied participants, but criticizing the price point.

References

External links

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