Running Battle

You run and you battle, but never at the same time Developer: Opera House Publisher: Sega (Europe), Tec Toy (Brazil) Release Dates: 1991 (Europe), February 1992 (Brazil) Available On: Sega Master System Genre(s): Action, 2D Platformer Honestly, when I went into this one, I figured it’d be easy enough to write about. It’s an action platformer for the Master System, I’ve done those before! Danan the Jungle Fighter, for example, is a weird game for multiple reasons, but it at least made enough sense that you could see the vision and tell what they were going for. And for the most part, they succeeded! But Running Battle is on a whole ‘nother level; this game is truly baffling, nothing about it makes any sense whatsoever! This game was released long before the dark days of vibe coding, but feels like it operates exclusively on vibes anyway. Things just happen arbitrarily and while the game is certainly beatable (it’s really not too bad once you know where the 1ups are), you won’t feel any…