MD Hokuto no Ken (Last Battle)

It was 1989. The Megadrive was something rather new and exciting. One of the first generation titles was Last Battle. This was the first time I had any knowledge of Hokuto no Ken. Of course, Last Battle is not Hokuto no Ken. SEGA brought the game outside of Japan by censoring all sorts of gore and any connection to HnK storyline. Still, Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the Northstar) is today one of my favorite anime and this video is level 2 gameplay of the original japanese version. If you ever played Last Battle, you will see how much you were missing out...

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• MD
• Sega
• Megadrive
• Genesis
• Last
• Battle
• Hokuto
• no
• Ken
• Fist
• of
• the
• Northstar
• Shiryu

[RenegadeC]

@stringanime You're forgetting about the sprite limit of hardware back then. CPU wise yeah, but VDP nope!

[Swervli]

HAHA look at those motherfuckers explode!

[came2getbusy]

HOKUTO HYAKURETSU KEN!

i wuv hnk <3

[bonzeosan]

You guys know this is Hokuto no Ken 2,right? They have the guys jumping and Raoh's brother in this and in Japan it is call Hokuto no ken 2.

[ken131]

Last Battle would've been 300% cooler had the blood been left in

[jesumele]

Well they never officially called it that. I got a Sega Nomad (remember those?) from a garage for $2.50! I got a Sega Genesis 3 in storage and used to have the original bulky Genesis..I think I still got this game somewhere. My all time favorite is Shinning Force 2!

[SomeGuyNamedJason]

@jesumele It IS Fist of the Northstar.

[jesumele]

This game had very good graphics considering what you had to deal with back in those days. It's kinda like Fist of the Northstar

[Andry9188]

Epic game!

[tightlypackedcoil]

The main problem I had with this game is you could end up stuck in a spot where you didn't have enough HP to progress but you couldn't turn back to recover. Quite annoying when you put over an hour into the game.