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Saturday Night Slam Masters 6 images

Details

Section
Games
Date
July 1993
Client or publisher
Capcom
Subject
The game's wrestlers
Platform
Arcade (CP System)
Console versions
Super Famicom (30 March 1994), Mega Drive, FM Towns Marty
Hara’s work
Character design
Media
Arcade, Poster

Rights

©CAPCOM 1993

©CAPCOM 1993,1994 ©原哲夫/集英社 (version Super Famicom)

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Saturday Night Slam Masters

Kazuhiko Torishima brought Hara a commission from Capcom, the characters of a new arcade wrestling game.

Muscle Bomber The Body Explosion hit Japanese arcades in July 1993, and was released in the West as Saturday Night Slam Masters. Hara handled the character design, a Capcom commission passed on to him by Kazuhiko Torishima, former deputy editor of Weekly Shonen Jump and by then head of V Jump. In the arcade, his drawings served as promotional art, on the flyer and the poster, while the sprites were made by Capcom’s team. The Super Famicom version, released on 30 March 1994, featured his illustrations on the box and in the manual, and the console versions reportedly also used them in the game itself, in the opening demo and the fighters’ portraits.

Gallery

Press announcement: Tetsuo Hara handles the character designPress announcement: Tetsuo Hara handles the character design1993
Flyer for the Western releaseFlyer for the Western release1993
Super Famicom box artSuper Famicom box art1994
Super Famicom manual: illustration of a fight in the ring3Super Famicom manual: illustration of a fight in the ring1994

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