Darkside Story
Released in 1995, Darkside Story is one of many beat-em-ups that tried to ride on the popularity of genre ignited by its success at arcades. Created by fledgling developer from South Korea, it's also a representative product of mid-1990s in Korea, when the industry saw a birth of countless video game developers who would go on to bring a colorful collection to the computer market in the next several years. Their first steps were usually tracing the titles by big names they're familiar with - be it role-playing games from Squaresoft, RTSes from Western companies, or in this case, the coin-op sidescrolling brawlers. Influnced by public interest toward its kind, Sonnori's Darkside Story was marketed to anwser Korean gamers' demand for games from their own country as well as a faithful experience of smashing fun on PC.
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