Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle

Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle is a fast tag‑team fighting game that swaps Savage Reign’s two‑plane system for dynamic tag combat, emphasizing team synergy, chain combos, and simplified controls for more…

20 September 1996

What Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle is

Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle is an arcade game developed by SNK and released in 1996. It was published by D4 Enterprise, Inc. It is available on Wii, Neo Geo AES, Arcade, Neo Geo MVS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Neo Geo MVS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

One year ago, King Leo had made the Battle of the Beast God tournament in order to see on who had what it took to challenge and fight against him from within their own given time and opportunity. Nine fighters had entered the tournament from within sight and that each of them had battled against one another from within a strong and relentless manner, but in the end, Sho Hayate had proven to be the strongest competitor and that he had won the tournament while defeating King Leo (and his fake impersonator King Lion) from within the finals of the tournament. To seek revenge against Hayate and those who caused his humiliating downfall, King Leo has organized a second version of the Battle of…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle launched on 20 September 1996, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Wipeout XL and Die Hard Trilogy.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Wipeout XL, Die Hard Trilogy.

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