HOW TO PLAY

First to win 2 rounds wins the match. Knock your opponent's health bar to zero, or have more health when the 60-second timer runs out.

Action	Player 1 (blue)	Player 2 (orange)	Gamepad
Move left / right	A D	← →	Stick or D-pad
Sidestep (circle around)	W S	↑ ↓	Stick or D-pad up / down
Punch (fast, short reach)	F	, or numpad 1	A
Kick (slower, hits harder)	G	. or numpad 2	B
Punch combo (jab, cross, uppercut)	Tap Punch three times
Uppercut (launches, beats a crouch)	Hold away from your opponent + Punch
Roundhouse (strong, can be ducked)	Hold toward your opponent + Kick
Jump / flying kick	Block + Up, then Kick in the air
Crouch (ducks punches and roundhouses)	Block + Down
Leg sweep (knocks down)	Kick while crouching (a standing block does not stop it)
Dash forward or back	Double-tap left or right
Special move	R (or F+G together)	M or numpad 0 (or ,+. together)	X / Y
Block the classic way	Hold away from your opponent while they attack - your guard comes up by itself
Block (hold)	H	/ or numpad 3	Any shoulder button
Choose a fighter	A D, then F	← →, then ,	Left / right, then A
Start a 1-player game (vs CPU)	1		Start on joystick 1
Start a 2-player game, or join in	2		Start on joystick 2
Insert a coin (when Free Play is off)	5 or 6		-
Start using the Mode setting	Enter		-

• Six fighters, six personalities. Duke (cowboy, fast punches), The Baron (top hat, heavy kicks), Spike (mohawk, quickest but fragile), Grizz (long beard, hits hardest, slow), Viper (headband, strong kicks) and Big Sal (chef hat, big punches). The bars on the select screen show each one's strengths.
• Special moves. Every fighter has one, and it recharges for 6 seconds after each use (watch the small meter under your health bar). Duke: Quick Draw, three lightning punches. The Baron: Gentleman's Boot, a huge launching kick. Spike: Buzzsaw, a spin that hits all around. Grizz: Haymaker, slow but smashes through a block. Viper: Cobra Strike, a flying kick from across the ring. Big Sal: Order Up, a floor slam with a shockwave.
• Deep sound and stereo. Hits, knockdowns, knockouts and special moves all carry a sub-bass layer (down to about 22 Hz) meant for a cabinet with real speakers or a subwoofer; a lighter copy an octave higher keeps them audible on small speakers. Hits are also placed left or right in stereo according to where they land on screen.
• Sound in attract mode. Web browsers refuse to play any sound until someone clicks or presses a key on the page once, so attract mode is silent until then (a small note at the top of the screen says so). On a cabinet, start Chrome with --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required and the attract sounds play from power-on.
• Attract mode. Leave the game alone and it shows off each fighter and their special move, then plays a demo match. Press Enter at any time to play.
• The camera circles the fight. Sidestepping walks you around your opponent, and the camera swings around the ring to keep both fighters in view.
• Sidestepping dodges. An attack only lands if the attacker is still facing you when it connects, so stepping to the side at the right moment makes it miss.
• Defense. A blocked attack shows a blue shield flash and the word BLOCK!, and costs almost no health. A standing block stops everything except leg sweeps; a crouching block stops everything except uppercuts and flying kicks; Grizz's Haymaker smashes through any block. You can also sidestep an attack or duck under punches and roundhouses.
• Points. Every hit pops its points up where it landed and adds to the score under your health bar: 25 points per point of damage, multiplied for combos (x2, x3 ... up to x5). Bonuses: COUNTER +200 (hitting someone mid-attack), FIRST HIT +500, and +50 to the defender for every block. Winning a round adds K.O. +2,000, 50 per second left on the clock, PERFECT +5,000 (no damage taken) or CLOSE CALL +1,000. The best score is kept as the HI SCORE on the title screen.
• Every hit lands differently. Fighters react to where they were hit - a head shot snaps the head back, a body shot doubles them over, a sweep takes the legs - with a random twist and stagger each time. Big hits knock them flat and they have to get back up.
• Joysticks: the first joystick or gamepad plugged in controls Player 1, the second controls Player 2. USB arcade joystick encoders that show up in Windows as game controllers work the same way.
• Operator buttons (bottom right) fade out when the mouse has not moved for a few seconds, so they never show on a cabinet. Move the mouse to bring them back.

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