The Combatribes (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Technos' 1993 Super NES beat 'em up arcade port, The Combatribes.
Played through as Bulova on the normal difficulty level.
The Combatribes is pseudo-sequel/followup to Renegade originally released as a coin-op in 1990. Did anyone else notice how much more bizarrely effeminate the characters look in the version compared to the arcade one?
Sure, it's been cut down and altered a bit, but this plays almost identically to the arcade version, and while it might not be long or terribly complex, it's a lot of fun.
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[@ReMeDy_TV]

The arcade ending and the SNES ending were quite a bit different. I'm a bit confused in the SNES ending they're carrying Martha away, but then it says they left and were never seen again, so I guess they took Martha with them? In the Arcade version, they leave Martha defeated on the pavement, lol. The SNES version evokes more feelings than the arcade version.

[@NintendoComplete]

A great port of the arcade's spiritual successor to Renegade. It handles like Final Fight, looks like a technicolor seizure, and has certainly one of the least expected final bosses I've ever encountered in a game.

[@AlexOjideagu2]

Double dragon is the successor to Renegade. This is basically Double Dragon 4

[@infinitygenealpa]

@@AlexOjideagu2 No it isn’t. River City Ransom is the sequel to Renegade, dumbass. Do your fucking research. Also, Super Double Dragon is Double Dragon 4, moron.

[@jonespianist3189]

@@infinitygenealpa They said "successor", not "sequel". There's a difference. Also, there's a game that *is* actually titled "Double Dragon IV". Not that it retcons Super Double Dragon out of canon.

[@ginormousaurus8394]

@@infinitygenealpa River City Ransom and Double Dragon were both successors to Renegade. The games were all originally developed by Technos. The Japanese version of Renegade was titled Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun and had Japanese high school student Kunio as its protagonist. It spawned River City Ransom, Super Dodge Ball, and other games that were part of the Kunio-kun series in Japan. When Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun was localized for western release, it was renamed Renegade and its graphics were altered. The setting was changed to an American city and the protagonist was redesigned to resemble one of the titular gang members from the movie The Warriors. Double Dragon was a spiritual successor to Renegade aimed at international audiences. While the Kunio-kun series was based on Japanese youth culture, Double Dragon was influenced by Enter the Dragon, The Warriors, Mad Max, and Fist of the North Star. The Combatribes was another Technos brawler that was similar to Renegade. The Combatribes also appears to have been influenced by The Warriors, with its New York City setting and distinctive gangs. There were also two sequels to Renegade released for home computers, titled Target: Renegade and Renegade III: The Final Chapter, but they weren't developed by Technos.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

I beat the game of Combatribes and it was awesome.

[@jorgegutierrezabdo]

I have such awesome memories of this game, I think I still have it somewhere

[@raijinthemaster88]

Bulova literately had the best run attack against the final boss, because she couldnt counter it like the others. The jump kicks made it harder to hit her, but if you kept running and socking her over and over with Bulova she couldn't do a damn thing against him. He was basically easy mode against her. But if you got to her with the other guys solo? Goddamn she was hard lol.

[@ZEKESPILLEDINKMUSIC]

The game where enemies say "Crap" when they die.

[@saturdaymorninggames]

The credits music is amazing !

[@vincently1995]

30th Anniversary of The Combatribes (1990-2020)

[@DarkCode]

Made by the creator of Double Dragon 2 and is considered the real Double Dragon 3

[@DarkCode]

@Anthony Cook I still like double dragon 3 better because of the ninja and chin.

[@TheCommentNinja81]

I never heard about that. How did you find Super Double Dragon ? I was disappointed by the sequel, but the fighting mechanics and the quantity of moves was great. One of the best ! But the speed of the game, the lackluster quantity of enemy types and the bosses was just so plain and boring and and it killed it for me. I sold Super Double Dragon and kept The Combatribes for my definitive SNES Collection.

[@apollosungod2819]

Only it's actually Combatribes NOT Double Dragon. Combatribes was meant and designed for arcades to have THREE players at the same time battle together and beat the game... Double Dragon was just two players... for whatever reasons game devs had difficulties trying to make beat em ups that had three or four players during 16bit hardware even though the multi taps existed but were used for sports and Bomberman games. It's usually ignorant fans who like to devalue Combatribes as a Double Dragon replacement or something like as if Tecnos Japan couldn't make original games. However a big problem with Double Dragon is that despite being made by Tecnos Japan and being extremely popular and profitable is that the western distributor is a bit of a mess between Tradewest and Taito so it's no wonder Tecnos Japan tried to make their own games they could claim where some other company wasn't claiming rights. Also despite Combatribes being fairly close to the arcade version minus three player mode the game was made at a still early time for Super Nintendo because even Tecnos Japan were still learning how to use the Super Nintendo hardware which you can see for yourself with how the Japan only Kunio Kun games were just far superior and how Super Double Dragon or Return of Double Dragon was made too early in Super Nintendo that However well it sold, it didn't get a proper sequel due to timing and the popularity of versus fighting games where most game companies saw Capcom selling 6 million rom cartridges in 92 so they basically were chasing fighting game money. Even Irem who hadn't made beat em ups on SFC until UnderCover Cops didn't have it easy to have a two player mode and that game stayed in Japan unfortunately. What's worse is that Sega Japan's Bare Knuckle games were being censored and altered by Sega of America's staff changing the name to Streets of Rage and screwing the game's identity to the point that Bare Knuckle III had severe censorship that angered gamer magazines in the import scene who saw that horrible censorship while Sega of America's garbage made games like Eternal Champions had violent gory torture porn fatalities scenes in videogames and even the garbage Double Dragon V fighting game which wasn't made by Tecnos Japan also features stages and weird violent torture porn which begs the question why subsidiary branches chose to do censorship on Japanese games and alter the story which ended up disappointing the actual BUYERS... By doing that the late teens and 20 year old gamers were essentially being snubbed by Sega of America's staff and by other companies who targeted the Japanese games being localized which was a horrible practice as word gets around and people take the path of refusing to buy until a better version shows up without knowing that less sales or mediocre sales mean no more of that series.

[@Cheeselord83]

@@apollosungod2819 Combatribes originally started out as a Double Dragon sequel.

[@dz4265]

@@Cheeselord83 source?

[@claytonwright2416]

I remember renting this game from a local video store when I was 10 or 11. I loved it. I always thought Berserker looked like Billy Lee from Double Dragon, since it was also made by Technos. It's too bad that a cool game like this didn't have much story to it. It was so vague. If a reboot ever sees the light of day, I hope the devs can show more background of the characters. In my view, that is what makes characters so endearing.

[@KenMasters.]

Even though The Combatribes is still better handled and better developed than Double Dragon.

[@Swinchester83]

This is my childhood. Me and my friend would spend countless hours never actually beating it.

[@Theonenonlyavery]

I've beat it ONCE!

[@stainedboxerz]

lol dude! me and my boy were determined to beat it, and never could, shit was hard towards the end.

[@RealestRealist14]

⁠@@stainedboxerz​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠my brother and I tried for 3-4 at our grandparents for the holidays, getting further each year. We were about to give up but realized if you go to opposite sides, you can trap her outside the screen. One person can keep attacking the edge of the screen and damage her while the other person runs the other way to keep her trapped off the screen. We beat it and never played it again lol

[@stainedboxerz]

@@RealestRealist14 lol no way you can cheese her? maybe we'll try again one day

[@Spikey_Buddy]

This looks like a kind of game where once you play it, it puts hair on your chest. In fact I miss the days of beat 'em ups like Final Fight, the Simpsons and X-Men arcade games, Brawl Brothers, and the Combatribes. You could argue Dynasty Warriors is sort of a modern beat 'em up, but It's not the same. Something about walking to the right and beating up thugs is so satisfying.

[@NintendoComplete]

It seriously is. The Konami and Capcom ones are some of my all time favorite games. Did you know that the first DW is actually a 3D vs fighter?

[@NintendoComplete]

Lmao there might be some real merit to that. I first played it when i was like 12? 13? Probably about the same time as I grew my first chest hair ahaha

[@Spikey_Buddy]

NintendoComplete I remember playing the first DW on a demo disc I got from a magazine and it was decent, if a little bland. But fighting a hoard of men on a battle field is pretty cathartic. Though my favorite games from the series are actually the DW Gundam series, specifically DWG 2. Customizable robots plus choosing your best pilot from across different generations of the MSG universe? Those are awesome.

[@NintendoComplete]

+Spikey Buddy I've played that one and a couple of the older ones. They're all in, but I think by far my favorite in the series is Hyrule Warriors. I put in well over 100hrs on that game

[@Spikey_Buddy]

NintendoComplete I've heard great things about it and since it's your favorite, I'm definitely getting it on 3DS, since I don't have a Wii U.

[@MrTacticalApproach]

Combatribes are very tall lol!

[@Tranquilino30]

Yeah.Looks like they're fighting with a bunch of dwarfs.

[@tuxysmagicaljukebox5431]

My older brother rented this game one time back in 1993. The music is exactly as I remember it, with the exception of the intro theme.

[@QueenJanae]

Loved this game when I was a kid! Retro games are the best!

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

What up guys I playing the game of Combatribes and it was so easy to beat the game.

[@kingkellz22z]

Straight nostalgia 🥲🥲 gotta play this with my pops and or my brother like back in the day

[@nightwishpower]

thats so weird, i played this game once when i was a kid like 25 years ago but I still remember one of the password in this game lol 4949

[@kimjongun2946]

Used to dump quarters into this at the arcades. Never knew a SNES port existed until now... And it looks pretty damn good too. Only thing a little better in the arcade version is the sound effects.

[@binkaram6577]

comparing the game play mechanics snes port is much better than arcade

[@cherokeefit4248]

How so? It’s kinda exact same. Unles sim too old to remember

[@mrtea7562]

0:37 in front of twin towers, want to find ground zero leader

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

I like Bulova he is strong fast and he can grab both bad guys on snes.

[@rickdrent]

Oh boy....i play this game day in day out back in de early 90s.

[@kadad5288]

Underrated game. I really liked Martha Splatterhead

[@Andy-wt6ym]

"The Combatribes have come to New York City, the center of all evil in the United States"

[@NintendoComplete]

Good to know Technos Japan understood America so well, huh?

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Hey guys I going to beat the game of Combatribes on SNES on Saturday and it going to be nine times.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Well guess what I beat the game of Combatribes on snes and I did 33 Times.

[@jukeimane6493]

She (Martha) was a really nice gang leader for letting all those members snitch but still allow them to fight again.

[@kadad5288]

She wants the combatribes to get to them

[@jman46241]

Wow I didn't know there was an SNES port. Loved playing the arcade port back in '92 I believe.

[@infernicide666]

This game reminds me of the warriors for some reason lol

[@retrobeastgames]

Loved this on the Arcade, looks great on the Snes. :o)

[@macbrik9305]

It was, and every boss become playable in versus mode as you beat them in game

[@DaigoParry]

Oh, I had no idea me and my friend was so close to beating this game! The cyborg was the 2nd last boss!

[@michaelchomik2367]

Straight up one of the best games ever made for SNES. Unreal replay value.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

I like the game.

[@helloworld3060]

Great game I remember playing this as a kid in the arcade good snes port though.

[@Chriswill9408]

At first I thought she was a sorceress.

[@chengfu7063]

This game is too legendary this should have already been released in the PSN nothing but good times with this see it's possible to make a game and just enjoy it without all the agendas and all the BS time flies too fast but the only bad part though having blitz be fast not powerful bullova be too powerful but he's not fast that's why I always pick Berserker because I love to win

[@cherokeefit4248]

I wish the Indian chief did the yell before he jumped down like he didn’t in the arcade. Pretty happy having this game in the collection

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Ladies and gentlemen I beat the game of Combatribes on snes I did nine times.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Ladies and gentlemen I think I won the game of Combatribes on snes and Five times.

[@MegaMrJIN]

Combatribes vs a gang of Pennywise the dancing clowns

[@Theshark15z]

More like The Red Triangle Circus Gang.

[@MrDapena1]

THE COMBA TRIBES!

[@TheMixedPlateFrequency]

this game was pretty fun

[@JWiLLfoReaL]

Hard as hell too

[@StealthNinjaX2]

I was looking for this game to remember my young days !

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Hey guys I beat the game of Combatribes and I win and it was awesome and I beat the game eighth time.

[@widk2]

I remember playing this game when i was just a kid

[@wdcain1]

#CyborgsAintLadies

[@sylentknight]

Mention of Ground Zero ? Twin Towers photo at the beginning ? Interesting.

[@ds1984-p2g]

TG I noticed that too. Coincidence? I think not.

[@TaylorZanderFrancis]

@@ds1984-p2g What are you getting at? Technos was going out of business cause they used their money to finance the hijackers in order to make Ground Zero a thing? ... Methinks they MIGHT have overthought that. They should probably just finished Super Double Dragon instead...

[@NintendoComplete]

@@TaylorZanderFrancis There's a similar scene but of a totally blown out NY skyline in Double Dragon 2's intro on PC Engine

[@ds1984-p2g]

@@TaylorZanderFrancis what am I getting at? Um 9/11 the American conspiracy of reducing the surplus population by the government. It goes beyond the game. This was a carried out plan years in the making. There is so much evidence out there, the game is rather supportive of the theory.

[@31leoceara]

@Nicht von dieser Welt You can help solve that problem: educate yourself and be humble.

[@sligacheese6470]

Ground zero almost 10 years before 9 eleven how did they know 😳

[@apollosungod2819]

Combatribes was meant and designed for arcades to have THREE players at the same time battle together and beat the game... Double Dragon was just two players... for whatever reasons game devs had difficulties trying to make beat em ups that had three or four players during 16bit hardware even though the multi taps existed but were used for sports and Bomberman games. It's usually ignorant fans who like to devalue Combatribes as a Double Dragon replacement or something like as if Tecnos Japan couldn't make original games. However a big problem with Double Dragon is that despite being made by Tecnos Japan and being extremely popular and profitable is that the western distributor is a bit of a mess between Tradewest and Taito so it's no wonder Tecnos Japan tried to make their own games they could claim where some other company wasn't claiming rights. Also despite Combatribes being fairly close to the arcade version minus three player mode the game was made at a still early time for Super Nintendo because even Tecnos Japan were still learning how to use the Super Nintendo hardware which you can see for yourself with how the Japan only Kunio Kun games were just far superior and how Super Double Dragon or Return of Double Dragon was made too early in Super Nintendo that However well it sold, it didn't get a proper sequel due to timing and the popularity of versus fighting games where most game companies saw Capcom selling 6 million rom cartridges in 92 so they basically were chasing fighting game money. Even Irem who hadn't made beat em ups on SFC until UnderCover Cops didn't have it easy to have a two player mode and that game stayed in Japan unfortunately. What's worse is that Sega Japan's Bare Knuckle games were being censored and altered by Sega of America's staff changing the name to Streets of Rage and screwing the game's identity to the point that Bare Knuckle III had severe censorship that angered gamer magazines in the import scene who saw that horrible censorship while Sega of America's garbage made games like Eternal Champions had violent gory torture porn fatalities scenes in videogames and even the garbage Double Dragon V fighting game which wasn't made by Tecnos Japan also features stages and weird violent torture porn which begs the question why subsidiary branches chose to do censorship on Japanese games and alter the story which ended up disappointing the actual BUYERS... By doing that the late teens and 20 year old gamers were essentially being snubbed by Sega of America's staff and by other companies who targeted the Japanese games being localized which was a horrible practice as word gets around and people take the path of refusing to buy until a better version shows up without knowing that less sales or mediocre sales mean no more of that series.

[@theprettygentleman3983]

One of my favorites of when i was a little kid... i could never beat the last boss...

[@caliscioxarts2191]

Same here she was hard

[@jelanifranklin9744]

I did plenty of times.

[@johnparker8268]

Seen this game on KZbin a few months ago finally ordered it came in a few days ago and actually just got finished playing it .. I liked it it slipped pass me growing up I remember the double dragons, renegade , bad dudes but not this game one strange thing about this game is how short the stages are and the boss of the stage is literally behind the 1st group of henchmen….😅😅.straight to the punch

[@johnparker8268]

Oh and this game ran me $45 plus taxes on this 30yr old game shit some folks wanted $80-120 for it shessss

[@richiemakyura724]

I liked this game, why so much hate in the comments?

[@albertofernandez9804]

Generic and cliche characters, enemies and bosses, a mediocre ending ... it actually looks like a bad copy of double dragon. This game is shit, as simple as that.

[@jonespianist3189]

@@albertofernandez9804 Renegade must be even worse then.

[@reisclerx1786]

@@jonespianist3189 Shut up :v

[@jonespianist3189]

@@reisclerx1786 Sure, because my previous reply was *definitely* directed towards you.

[@LIG87]

i used to have this game...never could beat it

[@Rodzilla97]

nobody human can. they made it way way way way way way way way too hard

[@robsoldstuff1670]

I like when the good guys are bigger then the bad guys not many games like that

[@binkaram6577]

the final boss music reminds me of robocop theme

[@edwardgaines6561]

Well...Martha was a cyborg too.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

I Try to beat the game Those bad guy Keeps a attacking me.

[@LEXRAPS]

Never realized Berserker was 7 feet tall. Lol

[@victormalyar9200]

This version is different than the arcade game. The arcade game is better, too many changes.

[@defblinders9585]

I rented this back in 1993. Never did beat Martha.

[@StealthNinjaX2]

you did better than me, i never got past the hammer guy

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Play the Combatribes on snes is awesome and I like this game.

[@kanadetyupanon9003]

1. I am trying to think the enemy screams 'CRAP!!" every time when they got defeated or thrown away. 2. While some bosses' names are so cool like salamander & wind walker , some bosses are just named fat & trash(to the pay-off pun as piece of 'trash'😅) 3. The punching and beating sound are so good.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Hey guys I beat the game of Combatribes on snes I did six times and it was awesome.

[@SNAKES600]

damn i never knew about this game. it looks good

[@shinkiro403]

4:10 5:51 18:27~19:00 why the lack of damage in these instances?

[@josepbergesse7830]

So much better than Street of rage imo.

[@therush757]

Main menu music burned into my brain since a kid.

[@styx7989]

street of rage for poors ..

[@bimmylee6611]

nah

[@Bloodreign1]

The people who made this helped popularize the beat em up belt scroller, a little respect for Technos, because without them, there'd be no Streets of Rage.

[@kramgemeos-osenhordalogica4491]

Pra quem veio aqui só pelo código porque esqueceu: 9207 For you the password of the final scene: 9207.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Oh one more thing I grab two bad guys and and it call two smash guys it just like Batman Forever on SNES.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Ladies and gentlemen I beat the game of Combatribes on snes I did ten times a new record.

[@drd3184]

This is actually the real double dragon 3.

[@MONSTRUOSOCULTOS]

¿Porqué no tuvo este juego una secuela?

[@abcmaya]

Impressive port. The arcade doesn't have the parallax scrolling like the SNES.

[@losdehaciendamitras6156]

Password 9207

[@felipefreitas5189]

*Esse nogo é tão legal quanto difícil, porradaria pura, gostei de zerar esse jogo... Kkkkkkkkkkk 😂😂😂*

[@mcdude9578]

anyone have the character select menu song? for my health

[@sudacagamer]

subpar port but what could you do at the time

[@alexipetrovski7868]

Well, tried a playing this tonight on the Super Retrocade and it's pretty naff. It's the arcade version as well. This SNES version looks better.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Hey guys I play the game of Combatribes and I going to beat the game again.

[@EdwardFalcon1986]

I thought River City Ransom was the sequel to Renegade?

[@Don_Porculio]

EdwardFalcon1986 you're kinda right. In japan, renegade was called Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun. The Japanese version of river city ransom, Downtown Nekketsu Monotagari is a sequel

[@Maru96]

This is 30 fps right? still a solid port.

[@wolfboy527]

Yep. The arcade original was 30 FPS as well.

[@noname-aquelequeveiodopaie496]

Mesmo estilo de Double Dragon

[@jouyim3491]

We will not see them again! XD

[@illliillli1312]

They where never scene again because they where busy pulling trains on her all night long.

[@NintendoComplete]

All aboard! Choo choo, bitches!

[@reisclerx1786]

@@NintendoComplete Lol

[@angel3067]

Repetitivo y corto, una lastima porque gráficamente es muy bueno.

[@marcoarbulu8092]

Musicalmente también.

[@angel3067]

​@@marcoarbulu8092 La música me recuerda mucho a la del torunament fighters. Samples rokeros muy bien definidos.

[@dumbcubestudio1884]

Dialogues are pretty mid imo, even when considering that it's from a 90s game by japanese game company. But the gameplay is solid!

[@BoozeAholic]

The original arcade game didn't even have dialogue so the SNES version must be written by janitors.

[@dumbcubestudio1884]

@@BoozeAholic probably. maybe it was good in the japanese version, but got ruined from crude localization

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Hey guys I beat the game of Combatribes on snes I did it 11 times.

[@saturdaymorninggames]

This game is so hard to beat !

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Rubbish bro that's game is not hard I use to play normal games in Combatribes on snes.

[@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128]

Well guess I did 33 Times on Combatribes on snes and it was awesome.

[@saturdaymorninggames]

@@brendansfavoritesongswilli4128 Wow

[@bparker4522]

The final battle was a black dude beating up a white chick. Was the universe trying to tell us something LOL

[@brandonneal2513]

No not really...

[@user-vy6cf4qc4m]

Remember the game Double Dragon version nes.

[@niceguy60]

CYCBORGS AINT LADIES

[@eyelove_owlcity]

The only bad Technos game

[@reisclerx1786]

BAD GAME IN TECHNOS DOUBLE DRAGON 2 ARCADe Not combatribes :v

[@pasksap9005]

realle average game , there are a lot better ones in its genre , just give it a quick try .

[@archaicanimosity8973]

This game sucks. I own it for the SNES. I mean seriously one screen then a fucking boss fight? Thats some of the laziest shit programming ive ever seen in a god damn beat em up, like they seriously thought just putting a bunch of bullshit in the backgrounds actually excuses them for NOT DESIGNING FULL BEAT EM UP LEVELS and the hit detection is ass as well. This type of lazy ass shit belongs in some 8 bit. But DEFINITELY not the 16 bit SNES. Easily the worst beat em up on the SNES hands fucking down.

[@BENLAK]

ugly game....compares to final fight or street of rage

[@jonathanalfaro2216]

Health hacks...fake vid

[@cid5087]

Done game