Battle Circuit

Battle Circuit

Released1997
Battle Circuit is a 2D side scrolling beat'em up drawn in a comic (manga) style in a futuristic science fiction setting. A group of bounty hunters must capture the mad scientist Dr. Saturn with a giant head. The roster of heroes has 5 characters for the player to choose from: Cyber Blue, a human bounty hunter with cybernetic attachments to his body; Captain Silver, a humanoid shape-shifting hunter who has ability to project ice particles from his body; Pink Ostrich, a large, sentient, pink ostrich, who is always accompanied by its owner, a young girl named Pola Abdul; Yellow Iris, a part-time fashion model with claws and Alien Green, a space creature looking like a giant, moving plant. Gameplay is quite typical for the genre, like in Final Fight, Streets of Rage, or Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - players go right, beat the enemies (player has access to various attacks), collect bonuses and money, and fight against bosses, for example Dr. Saturn and his robots. Players' abilities can be expanded by purchasing special "upgrade discs" after the completion of levels using coins obtained from dead enemies.
69Wit Score

Details

DeveloperCapcom
ReleasedApril 19, 1997
StatusReleased
GenresHack and slash/Beat 'em upArcade
ThemesActionScience fiction
PlatformsARC Arcade
ModesSingle playerCo-operativeSplit screen

Wit-Index Intelligence

Community Score
Mixed Reception69/100

About This Game

In the future city of Neo Koba, a team of superpowered bounty hunters makes a living tracking and apprehending wanted criminals by their assigned serial numbers. A straightforward contract to capture scientist Doctor Saturn and his blob sidekick aboard an orbital spacecraft leads, through a series of escalating jobs, to something much larger. A member of the Delete Gang named Johnny is holding a floppy disk containing the Shiva System — a program capable of seizing control of every computerized system on Earth. The bounty hunters must fight their way through Neo Koba's criminal underworld, level by level, to recover the disk before the Delete Gang deploys it.