Game Help?

Fenderchamp

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Hello all,

I have been searching for an arcade game's title for the past ten years or so, with absolutely no luck at all. My brother and I used to play it all the time at an arcade, but there was no title on the machine, and I don't recall the one from the title screen. I only have some details about the game and hopefully someone can help me out, and ANY help at all would be appreciated.

The game was a typical side scrolling beat em up game that we first played roughly 15 years ago. I'm not sure of the year it was made, but it had decent graphics for the time and nice bright colours. Gameplay consisted of fighting through baddies until reaching a boss at the end of the stage. The game was either one or two players, and the characters included an Elvis Presley-like character, and a wrestler who was black and wore a half-mask with flames on his tights. Later on in the game one of the bosses you fight(who wore a metal mask with his hair sticking out of it) would become a playable character for the remainder of the game.

Special moves for the characters were:

Elvis- He would grab a bad guy and turn him into a glowing blue electric guitar that he would play

The Wrestler: He would grab the guy by his ankles and spin him around in a circle while the guy was engulfed in flames

A 3rd blonde guy(I can't remember what he looked like): He would grab a bad guy and spin him around his torso while the guy would turn blue

Metal mask: His attack was that he would turn into a tornado and sweep across the screen.

That's all i can think of for now, feel free to ask questions to possibly jog my memory about it. Once again, any help would be appreciated.

-Fenderchamp
 
If it's what i think, it has a couple names, depending on where it was found - Crime Fighters 2 or Vendetta - although it doesn't all fit your description.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10300

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Lucasnov77, you're absolutely right. It IS knuckle bash. Thanks a ton.That's been bugging me for years.
 
Great description Fenderchamp, you made it real easy to name the game Knuckle Bash. You forgot about the cool bonus stages though, where you have to press your punch button as fast as possible to beat player 2 or the computer, the winner would punch the other player out, winning refilled your life meter. There are 2 characters you unlock after beating them as bosses, the Ninja and a Football player. Knuckle Bash was one of the first arcade games I ever owned. I played it tons and use to beat it on one credit all the time. There was lots of wacky enemies in that game, which was cool, 'cause there were lots of different characters to beat up, and you didn't fight the same looking bad guy a hundred times over. The last boss being a giant pig man was kinda scary though.
 
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