Superior Soldiers


Superior Soldiers, known in Japan as Perfect Soldiers, is a 1993 fighting arcade game developed and published by Irem. It was created during the fighting game trend of the 1990s that began with Capcom's Street Fighter II. Several graphic designers of this and several other Irem titles later moved to Nazca, and designed the graphics of the Metal Slug franchise for SNK.

Characters

There are eight fighters in the game:
  • Star Savior is the protagonist character of the game.
  • Arabian Moon is a female fighter dressed as a scantily-clad dancer.
  • Meltdown - a nuclear human remodeled with a built-in battery.
  • Broadway is a female strip dancer.
  • Bushidoh is an armoured male samurai.
  • Dinosaur is the dinosaur with a personality that isn't violent.
  • Evil Talon is a mutant that has been turned into a man-eating monster by corruptive force of Bydo. It sees everything as meals to be consumed.
  • Seleous is the antagonist of the game. Upon defeat, an entity emerges from its body identifying itself as Bydo, a reference to the antagonist of Irem's R-Type series.

Regional differences

Besides the names of several characters, the North American version, Superior Soldiers, lacks other things that are seen in the Japanese version, Perfect Soldiers. The Japanese version has an announcer shouting the name of the game at the title screen, as well as names of "who VS. who" at the VS. screens in Engrish, but the well-known "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen and new color graphics were added to the North American version.