Buccaneers

Title screen.

Buccaneers is a pirate-themed beat-em-up developed and published by Duintronic for the arcade in 1989. This was the company's first and last game. It was never ported to any other platform.

I found this game randomly while exploring MAME.

Status

I do not own this game, I have not beaten it, and have no desire to ever play this game again.

Review

1	1	5	1	1

Best Version: 18%

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The game has pretty nice graphics.

Bad

• The game is terribly monotonous, the enemies are very dull.
• You play on a 2-D platform without the ability to move up or down despite the graphics making it look like you should.
• Jumping is very difficult to control.
• The ending is the same as the title screen.
• The bosses are defeated almost entirely by mashing the kick button.

Ugly

• Play control is so slow and sluggish that the game is practically unplayable.
• With only 4 stages, the game is really short. It can be finished in about 5 minutes.

Media

Screenshots

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  Title screen.

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  Introduction.

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  Stage 1.

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  Cut Scene.

Videos

• youtube.com/watch?v=wLVhMmMal-U - Longplay.

Links

   

• arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13394 - Arcade Museum.