Deadly Moves

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Power Athlete/Deadly Moves

Publisher: Kaneko (US/JP), Samsung (KR)

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1992-12-11	¥8,5008,500	T-33033
US	1992		T-33046
KR	199x		GM8072JT

Power Athlete (パワーアスリート) is a 1992 fighting game for the Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed by System Vision and published by Kaneko. In the US, the Mega Drive version was renamed Deadly Moves, with the Super Famicom/SNES version becoming Power Moves. Both the Japanese and US versions uses English text.

Story

The protagonist Joe aims to become the world’s strongest fighter by challenging Ranker, the game’s final boss.

Gameplay

Punch
Kick
Jump
(close), + Throw

and moves the character to a higher or lower plane, similar to side-scrolling beat-'em-up games like Streets of Rage. Ranker can be unlocked using cheat codes.

Power Athlete was released before numerous fighting game "standards" were set by Street Fighter II, and thus there are no Street Fighter II-style combos to perform.

In RPG fashion, enemies can be challenged multiple times to level your character up (and exploit the score system). Special moves don’t cause any block damage unless your character is highly leveled up.

There are two long bonus stages that can be used to collect extra points. Progress is recorded through a password system.

The final boss can be easily defeated by fully leveling up your character and throwing projectiles from the other side of the screen. Ranker will block all of them, slowly succumbing to the block damage taken.

Playable Characters

	Joe (ジョー)
	It's an American fighter that looks like Ryu from Street Fighter. He's the only playable character from the single-player mode. Template:MoveListStart
Kikou-ken	, , +
Super Nova	, +	Template:MoveListEnd
100px	Warren (ウォーレン)
100px	A Hawaiian grappler. Warren's technique names are patterned on surfing terms - "Big Wednesday", etc. Template:MoveListStart
Big Wednesday	, , +
Rolling Drop Kick	+ +	Template:MoveListEnd
	Vagnad (バグナド・ロフノスキー)
	A huge Russian wrestler with onyx skin. The game manual for this version refers to Vagnad as a survivor of The Holocaust. Template:MoveListStart
Double Arm	, +
Double-power Bomb	(close) , +	Template:MoveListEnd
	Buoh (舞王)
	A kabuki-style fighter who can teleport and attack with his hair. Template:MoveListStart
Dancing Smoke	, +
Rolling Hair Attack	, +	Template:MoveListEnd
	Gaoluon (百竜(ガオロン))
	An acrobatic Chinese martial artist, wielding a pair of Deer Horn Knives Template:MoveListStart
Twin Flying Dragon	, +
Moonsault Kick	, +	Template:MoveListEnd
	Reayon (麗栄(リーヨン))
	The only female fighter of the game. Template:MoveListStart
Dancing Crash	, , +
Shooting-down Kick	, +	Template:MoveListEnd
	Baraki (バラキ・キメラ)
	A tribal Kenyan warrior with a beastial appearance. Template:MoveListStart
Diving Roller	, , +
Fire Storm	, +	Template:MoveListEnd
	Nick (ニック)
	An arrogant, lightning-quick Spanish matador. His fighting style uses a combination of break dancing moves and knife throwing Template:MoveListStart
Killer Nails	, , +
Dancing Storm	, +	Template:MoveListEnd

Versions

The Mega Drive and Super NES versions of Power Athlete are virtually the same game, save for a few minor graphical differences. For example, Joe uses blue "bracelets" in the Mega Drive version, while on Nintendo's console they are red. Shadows are also semi-transparent on the Super NES, as opposed to the solid black seen on the Mega Drive. There are other minor palette changes, witnessed in areas such as the upgrade screen.

Beating an opponent in the Mega Drive version also leads to a longer victory sequence, in which rather than calculating a score and fading straight to black, the background fades and then the score is calculated.

Localised names

Also known as
Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English (US)	Deadly Moves	Deadly Moves
Japanese	パワーアスリート	Power Athlete

Production credits

Producer: Akihiko Uto
Director: Takahiro Shima
Programmer: Hisato Shirochika, Hideki Suzuki
Charactor Design: Kuzira.MK2
Designer: Kuzira.MK2, T.K, Shikanosuke, Dogrou, Aki.Misuzu, Betty.Black, Dember Sato
Voice: Kuzira.MK2, Misako.S
Sound: Hideki Suzuki
Special Thanks: Kato Dappe, Rika Shima, Takayuki Shoji, Koji Naya, Inter State Co., Ltd., System Vision

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Deadly Moves/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1992-08: "August 1992" (1992-07-08)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1992-12: "December 1992" (1992-11-07)

Promotional material

Print advert in Game Informer (US) #8: "January/February 1993" (199x-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

50

^[5]

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

70

^[6]

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

50

^[7]

Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US)

NTSC-U

84

^[8]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)

60

^[9]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)

60

^[10]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

55

^[11]

Game Power (IT)

80

^[12]

GamesMaster (UK)

NTSC

35

^[13]

Hippon Super (JP)

NTSC-J

40

^[14]

Joypad (FR)

NTSC-J

81

^[15]

Joystick (FR)

NTSC-J

80

^[16]

Mega Drive Fan (JP)

NTSC-J

58

^[17]

Mega (UK)

NTSC-J

54

^[18]

Mega (UK)

54

^[19]

MegaTech (UK)

NTSC-U

79

^[20]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

NTSC-U

77

^[3]

Play Time (DE)

62

^[21]

Sega Power (UK)

NTSC-J

54

^[22]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-U

71

^[23]

Sega Pro (UK)

71

^[24]

Sega Zone (UK)

NTSC-U

71

^[25]

Sega Force (UK)

NTSC

57

^[4]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

50

^[26]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

63

^[27]

	63
Based on 25 reviews

Deadly Moves

Mega Drive, US
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Mega Drive, JP
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Mega Drive, KR
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	35cbd237
MD5	208652cf1e1f77405cf3e854f009d2b8
SHA-1	8733d179292d4dc5c3513459539d96484b6d018f

1MB

1992

Cartridge (US)

✔

CRC32	b41b77cf
MD5	2391922125eed997b77a015135454ebb
SHA-1	d371e339c5d85b69c34007dc514c1adb524dac2a

1MB

1992

Cartridge (JP/KR)

References

↑ File:BeepMD_JP_1992-12.pdf, page 30
↑ File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 87
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 File:MeanMachinesSega06UK.pdf, page 40 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega06UK.pdf_p40" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 File:SegaForce UK 15.pdf, page 72 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaForce UK 15.pdf_p72" defined multiple times with different content
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 22
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 56
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "December 1992" (JP; 1992-11-07), page 30
↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "March 1993" (US; 1993-02-09), page 64
↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 291
↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 305
↑ Famitsu, "1992-11-27" (JP; 1992-11-13), page 43
↑ Game Power, "Febbraio 1993" (IT; 1993-0x-xx), page 45
↑ GamesMaster, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-18), page 81
↑ Hippon Super, "January 1993" (JP; 1992-12-04), page 84
↑ Joypad, "Janvier 1993" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 82
↑ Joystick, "Février 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 186
↑ Mega Drive Fan, "March 1993" (JP; 1993-02-xx), page 59
↑ Mega, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-18), page 56
↑ Mega, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-06-17), page 35
↑ MegaTech, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-20), page 56
↑ Play Time, "5/93" (DE; 1993-04-07), page 106
↑ Sega Power, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-04), page 34
↑ Sega Pro, "March 1993" (UK; 1993-02-11), page 60
↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64
↑ Sega Zone, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-xx), page 28
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 48

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1992-12.pdf_p30-1] File:BeepMD_JP_1992-12.pdf, page 30

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-2] File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 87

[:File:MeanMachinesSega06UK.pdf_p40-3] 3.0 ^3.1 File:MeanMachinesSega06UK.pdf, page 40 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega06UK.pdf_p40" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:SegaForce_UK_15.pdf_p72-4] 4.0 ^4.1 File:SegaForce UK 15.pdf, page 72 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaForce UK 15.pdf_p72" defined multiple times with different content

[5] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 22

[6] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 56

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1992-12.pdf_p30-7] Beep! MegaDrive, "December 1992" (JP; 1992-11-07), page 30

[:File:ElectronicGames2_US_06.pdf_p64-8] Electronic Games (1992-1995), "March 1993" (US; 1993-02-09), page 64

[9] Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 291

[10] Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 305

[:File:Famitsu_JP_0206.pdf_p43-11] Famitsu, "1992-11-27" (JP; 1992-11-13), page 43

[:File:GamePower_IT_14.pdf_p45-12] Game Power, "Febbraio 1993" (IT; 1993-0x-xx), page 45

[:File:GamesMaster_UK_004.pdf_p81-13] GamesMaster, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-18), page 81

[14] Hippon Super, "January 1993" (JP; 1992-12-04), page 84

[:File:Joypad_FR_016.pdf_p82-15] Joypad, "Janvier 1993" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 82

[:File:Joystick_FR_035.pdf_p186-16] Joystick, "Février 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 186

[:File:Mdfan_JP_1993-03.pdf_p59-17] Mega Drive Fan, "March 1993" (JP; 1993-02-xx), page 59

[:File:Mega_UK_07.pdf_p56-18] Mega, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-18), page 56

[:File:Mega_UK_10.pdf_p35-19] Mega, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-06-17), page 35

[:File:MegaTech_UK_16.pdf_p56-20] MegaTech, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-20), page 56

[:File:PlayTime_DE_1993-05.pdf_p106-21] Play Time, "5/93" (DE; 1993-04-07), page 106

[:File:SegaPower_UK_41.pdf_p34-22] Sega Power, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-04), page 34

[:File:SegaPro_UK_17.pdf_p60-23] Sega Pro, "March 1993" (UK; 1993-02-11), page 60

[:File:SegaPro_UK_18.pdf_p64-24] Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64

[:File:SegaZone_UK_08.pdf_p28-25] Sega Zone, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-xx), page 28

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-26] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87

[27] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 48

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Deadly Moves

From Sega Retro

Contents

Story

Gameplay

Playable Characters

Versions

Localised names

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References