Heavy Smash is an arcade developed by Data East Corporation, released 1 July 1993 on Arcade.
What Heavy Smash is
Heavy Smash is an arcade game developed by Data East Corporation and released in 1993. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Heavy Smash portrays a futuristic, armored, no-rules version of handball. The player is allowed to select one of various national teams (plus a robot team with a space station as home turf), some of them with an unique armor design reflecting some kind of perceived national tradition (a samurai armor for Japan and a sort of sci-fi football outfit or USA, for example) and some other being just palette swaps. Each team has a distinctive special shot, which has to be loaded up with a power gauge and each team member, in addition to tackling and roughing up opponents with no penalty whatsoever, can even perform a ranged attack in order to gain ball control. At its core, it's the typical “win or…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Heavy Smash launched on 1 July 1993, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, The Punisher and Dust: A Tale of the Wired West.
Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, The Punisher, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West.
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When did Heavy Smash come out?
Heavy Smash was released on 1 July 1993 for Arcade.
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