Punisher arcade game

To avenge them and all others like them Frank becomes The Punisher. The game begins in an illegal casino and the streets of the New York City, with the merciless vigilante Frank "the Punisher" Castle optionally partnered with S. Frank "interrogates" Scully, gets the information he needs, and then promptly shoots him. Still on track of Bruno, the Punisher infiltrates the mob's Pantaberde resort in Florida via a water duct.

He breaks into a hotel and corners Bruno, who is suddenly killed by a robot called Guardroid, who tells Frank the Kingpin has programmed him to terminate him, which the Punisher must then take on.

The Punisher then raids a major drug-smuggling ring at the local harbor, which ends with him confronting Bonebreaker in a waterfront warehouse. After that, the Punisher attacks the Kingpin's poppy field at a cave in Arizona. The Punisher boards and destroys a freight train which is commanded by Bushwhacker.

At that point, the Kingpin decides that he has lost enough henchmen and money to the Punisher's actions. He puts a hefty contract out on him, and he is chased by assassins from his hideout and through a forest. After defeating another Guardroid, the Punisher in turn assaults the King Building skyscraper.

He fights his way through Jigsaw and other enemies to the final showdown against the Kingpin himself. After the Kingpin is defeated, the entire tower collapses, but the Kingpin is not found among the many dead criminals in the rubble. Marvel Database Explore. Several established Marvel Universe villains appear throughout the game, such as the Mafia captain Bruno Costa, Bonebreaker , Bushwhacker , Jigsaw , and the Kingpin himself as the final boss. The gameplay follows the same side-scrolling beat'em up formula Capcom established in Final Fight.

Much in the same way that Capcom's Cadillacs and Dinosaurs did the same month, the game distinguishes itself by the frequent use of several firearms Ingram submachine gun, M16 rifle, an improvised flamethrower , along with the traditional melee and thrown including baseball bats , hammers, knives, Japanese swords and shuriken , as well as improvised weapons such as lead pipes or car tyres.

There are also several sections of the game in which the characters draw their handguns enabling the player to shoot the enemies only when facing the enemy characters armed with guns. Unlike in Final Fight , Punisher and Nick Fury's size, abilities, and tactics are essentially interchangeable; they both use the same punch, kick, throw, and special piledriver and "megacrush" attacks. Common enemy characters the player confronts during the course of the game include basic street thugs, classic-style Mafia mobsters, gun-toting mercenaries, and even teleporting ninja women and skeleton-like cyborgs resembling T Relatively many background elements can be also destroyed.

This version, while published by Capcom, was developed by Sculptured Software. In addition to the noticeably worse graphics and sound, due to the limitations of the hardware , there were several design and gameplay changes to the game and many of the previously breakable background objects were rendered unbreakable in the Genesis version.

The Genesis port holds an average rating of Codex Gamicus Explore. Main Page All Pages. Gamepedia support Report a bad ad Help Wiki Contact us. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? The Punisher arcade game. Edit source History Talk 0.