Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E.

85K plays 1985 #Action#Fighting#Sport

Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E., known in Japan as Kinnikuman: Muscle Tag Match, is a fighting game developed by Tose and published by Bandai for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Japanese edition is based on Yudetamago's manga and anime series Kinnikuman, but the North American edition was not due to the source material being not well-known outside Japan. Instead, the game was released as a tie-in with Mattel’s M.U.S.C.L.E. toy line, itself a rebranding of the Kinkeshi line of Kinnikuman toys.

It has eight playable characters, each with his own special move. The game was followed by a 1987 Japan-only sequel for the Famicom Disk System titled Kinnikuman: Kinniku-sei Ōi Sōdatsusen (キン肉マン キン肉星王位争奪戦, Kinnikuman: Scramble for the Throne).

From Wikipedia's article Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E., licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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NESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
BZN
AXM
SelectShiftB
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Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

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Keyboard controls

NESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
BZN
AXM
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E.NES

1.5 Wake me up when it's over

AllGame 2/5 · 1 review

What the reviews talk about

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What the critics said

  • From a retrospective review, Christopher Baker of AllGame described both the graphics, sound effects and gameplay as "primitive, even for an early NES title".

    — AllGame (Christopher Baker)

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E. article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • AllGame 2/5

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 74/100 · 190 votes

Full reviews

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  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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