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Mace: The Dark Age

Mace: The Dark Age is a fighting video game released by Atari for arcade machines in 1997 and ported by Midway to the Nintendo 64 in 1997. The game is similar to Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. and the Mortal Kombat series…

1 March 1997

Mace: The Dark Age is a fighting developed by Atari Games, released 1 March 1997 on Nintendo 64 and Arcade.

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What Mace: The Dark Age is

Mace: The Dark Age is a fighting game developed by Atari Games and released in 1997. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 64 and Arcade.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mace: The Dark Age is a fighting video game released by Atari for arcade machines in 1997 and ported by Midway to the Nintendo 64 in 1997. The game is similar to Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. and the Mortal Kombat series. Like in Mortal Kombat, when a character wins both rounds, they can perform an execution move on the enemy. Methods included severing an opponent's limbs and torso (Al Rashid), beheading (The Executioner), repeated stabbing (Koyasha), impaling the opponent with a sword (Lord Deimos), breaking an opponent's back by hoisting them on top of a Viking helmet and throwing them to the ground, causing their body to explode (Ragnar), and some more far-fetched methods including pulling out an…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

What it launched against

Mace: The Dark Age launched on 1 March 1997, within three weeks of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Blast Corps, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and NBA ShootOut '97.

Released around the same time: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Blast Corps, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, NBA ShootOut '97.

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When did Mace: The Dark Age come out?
Mace: The Dark Age was released on 1 March 1997 for Nintendo 64 and Arcade.

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