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The Story Behind American Gladiators

American Gladiators is a video game developed by Incredible Technologies and released in 1991 by GameTek for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Ports were published in 1992 for Amiga and MS-DOS compatible operating systems, and then in 1993 for Genesis and Super NES, by Imagitec Design. It is based on the 1989 television game show American Gladiators.

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They were: The Eliminator in this game combined elements of the first two seasons' courses. The gladiators were plentiful and attacked at different points in the wall level. The game offered a two-player mode that switched between simultaneous and alternating play based on the event.

The player had 60 seconds to complete the course, and any fall immediately deducted 10 seconds from whatever time the player had left at that particular point. The player that reached the finish line first, regardless of time penalties, received 10 points and the second place player received 5. The wall was a particularly tough event due to its difficult controls that involved repeated rhythmic tapping of the A and B buttons with the directional pad to simulate the movement of the left and right hands to different handholds.

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He spotlighted the "dreadful" sprites and their animations, and claimed the digitized pictures of the Gladiators at the beginning were the only good parts of the graphics. While Jeffrey Tschiltsch of Video Games & Computer Entertainment felt that the easy learning curve and the support for up to eight players may make a good multiplayer experience, Chris blasted the requirement to play with AI opponents in order to play with humans. He praised the game's ability to have easy-to-learn controls while including enough complication and variety to keep the player hooked.

The magazine stated Atlusphere and Powerball were the only two events with any real difficulty. Nintendo Magazine System and Nintendo Power thought the presentation stayed true to the television series, Nintendo Power comparing its source material likeness to that of Acclaim Entertainment's WWF Super WrestleMania (1992). The graphics and sound were also criticized.

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