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American Gladiators
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American Gladiators is a video game made in 1991 by
for the Amiga, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES and
Nintendo Entertainment System. It is based on the
popular TV game show, American Gladiators. The NES
version varied greatly from the others as well as the
game show itself in that the events were morphed into
side-scrolling and overhead mini-levels that only
partially resembled the real-life events. Each joust
event involved four different gladiator battles atop
platforms which needed to be won, with a series of
joust platforms to be jumped across in between
battles. Human Cannonball also required four
gladiators to be beaten with perfectly-timed leaps off
the rope while the gladiator's platform elevated up
and down, making the task that much more difficult.
Gladiators screamed gratuitously (and often
humorously) as they were knocked off the platforms.
The Wall featured numerous screenfulls of handholds
and footholds with various obstacles, walls, floors
and occasional treacherous stretches featuring empty
spaces with very few handholds to navigate in order to
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