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Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger

Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger is a wrestling game published by Yutaka and developed by an unknown developer-for-hire. It is based on the Kinnikuman license, known in the west as Ultimate Muscle. The player can…

21 August 1992

Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger is a fighting, released 21 August 1992 on Super Famicom.

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What Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger is

Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger was released in 1992. It was published by Yutaka. It is available on Super Famicom only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger is a wrestling game published by Yutaka and developed by an unknown developer-for-hire. It is based on the Kinnikuman license, known in the west as Ultimate Muscle. The player can select between six wrestlers in the single player story mode with an additional two secret characters to unlock for the multiplayer versus mode.
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How it plays

Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ultimate Muscle series

Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger is the seventh of 20 entries we hold in the Ultimate Muscle series. It arrived 8 months after Kinnikuman: Sakuretsu! Muscle Power. The next entry was Kinnikuman Muscle Fight in 1999.

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What it launched against

Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger launched on 21 August 1992, within three weeks of Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, Axelay and Alone in the Dark.

Released around the same time: Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, Axelay, Alone in the Dark.

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When did Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger come out?
Kinnikuman: Dirty Challenger was released on 21 August 1992 for Super Famicom.

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