Today, to tell you about a fairly famous arcade game "Kombat Whirlwind", "Kombat Whirlwind" is a fighting type game developed by CAPCOM, officially released in 1989, originally developed as a sequel to Street Fighter, formerly known as "Street Fighter 89", the story of the game takes place in a chaotic city called Metro, due to the chaos of law and order, and the haunting of gangsters (especially a gang organization called Mad Gear), It became the most chaotic place on earth, and even the mayor's daughter was kidnapped, so the mayor's daughter's boyfriend, Cody, the mayor's friend, and the mayor himself decided to eliminate the local evil forces.
"Kombat Whirlwind" can be said to be an unexpected work, due to the popularity of "Street Fighter" in the United States at that time, CAPCOM in the United States required the production of a sequel to "Street Fighter", so the original name of "Kombat Whirlwind" was called "Street Fighter 89". However, CAPCOM's production of "Kombat Whirlwind" was influenced by "Double Dragon" and made a side-scrolling game, and the finished product can be said to have completely deviated from the expectations of CAPCOM's US branch. Another game entirely. This led to the later release of Street Fighter 2. And it is such a work that makes CAPCOM's US branch "disappointed expectations", which unexpectedly received many praises and became a horizontal classic after "Double Dragon". Although the gameplay of the two games is completely different, they are still closely related in terms of plot. Many of the characters in Kombat Whirlwind were optional characters in the later Street Fighter.
The main inspiration for the Kombat Whirlwind game came from the 1984 American film "The Wild Soldier", which tells the story of a young and beautiful rock singer Elaine, who is kidnapped by a speeding car gangster, and then someone pays for her ex-boyfriend Tom Cody to come to the rescue, so Tom goes in and out of the rainy muddy streets, alleys, warehouses and subways, and a rescue operation full of courage and adventure begins. Whether it is the appearance of the male protagonist Cody, or the scene of fierce fighting with the mob in the slum, there is more or less a shadow of this movie.
Kombat Whirlwind has many ported versions, but the arcade version is undoubtedly the most perfect of all. Other versions have different aspects of the reduction. The most characteristic aspect of the arcade version is that in terms of enemies on the same screen, the arcade version is the largest number of people on the same screen, while the protagonist's physical strength is pitifully small. And it flies quite fast. It also increases the difficulty of the game on the side.
In short, as an original game, the Kombat Whirlwind series has a smooth and vivid feel, and the storyline behind it also has a lot of places worth savoring. If you've played this game since you were a kid, take the opportunity to make up for it!