Rocky (1987)

Rocky is the name of one of many video games based on the film franchise, Rocky. This page will only deal with the one which was released in 1987 for mh:awesomegames:Sega Master System, developed and published by Sega.

It was considered a good fighting game for its time, with the graphics being highly praised, but has not aged well and in the 2000s and later it began to receive negative reviews.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Extremely confusing gameplay and difficult strategies.
 * 2) The game is short. The only opponents are Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, and Ivan Drago.
 * 3) To account for the short length of the game, the game has a massive difficulty spike after the 1st opponent (Apollo Creed) that makes beating the next opponent (Clubber Lang) almost impossible.
 * 4) Before each fight, Rocky trains to improve his strength, stamina, and accuracy. However, each one takes over a minute to finish and involves mashing the 2 button in rhythm. Even if you beat the required score, Rocky's skills improve only slightly and don't make much difference. However, you need to reach a second, hidden "over-qualify" score to improve his skills enough to beat Clubber Lang and Ivan Drago.
 * 5) Mickey appears in the last training level before fighting Ivan Drago, even though he died in Rocky III.
 * 6) Generic music and none of the music from the film is present.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) It's visually stunning for an 8-bit game.

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