Rejoice, fellow lovers of obscure video games of the early '90s! Developer Hamster Corporation's Arcade Archives series has just brought us one heck of a historical curiosity in Namco's Knuckle Heads.
Knuckle Heads hit Japanese arcades in 1993, just as the Street Fighter 2-inspired fever for 2D fighting games was starting to hit its peak. This was Namco's first fighting game, and it served as the company's first tentative dip into the genre years before Tekken would become a breakout hit in the 3D fighting world. While Knuckle Heads seems to have enjoyed modest success in Japan, it never got a worldwide release until now.
