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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: There are in total 5 different versions of Specks in ''II''. The four you need to wrestle have the colors blue, [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], Green and Red. There's also a golden one, but you don't face him as an opponent. Instead, he appears in a minigame that measures the players strength.
* {{Cyborg}}: Specks from II is a cyborg. Only the lower part of his face is still flesh, everything else is metal, and he speaks with a robotic voice.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: There are in total 5 different versions of Specks in ''II''. The four you need to wrestle have the colors blue, [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], Green green and Red.red. There's also a golden one, but you don't face him as an opponent. Instead, he appears in a minigame that measures the players strength.
* {{Cyborg}}: Specks from II ''II'' is a cyborg. Only the lower part of his face is still flesh, everything else is metal, and he speaks with a robotic voice.



* HumanAliens: Atlas from ''II'' looks like a normal human, but he is advertised as the prince from planet Amusement.

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* HumanAliens: Atlas from ''II'' looks like a normal human, but he is advertised as the prince from planet Amusement."the Prince of Planet 'Amusement'".
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Turk in ''II'' is blatantly visually modeled on Saddam Hussein.
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* DefeatEqualsExplosion: All versions of Specks explode upon being defeated.

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* DefeatEqualsExplosion: All versions of Specks explode upon being defeated.defeated in [[PostDefeatExplosionChain a series of explosions]] that damages his armor and fries his head.
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* TestYourStrengthGame: ''II'' has a bonus game where the robot arm will not fight back and instead just measure the amount of pressure the player can unleash.

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* TestYourStrengthGame: ''II'' has a bonus game where the robot arm will not fight back and instead just measure the amount of pressure the player can unleash.unleash.
* TVHeadRobot: Unlike ''II'', Arm Champs I had a console where the robot arm is attached to a torso, with the screen on which the face of your opponent is displayed as a head. [[https://www.thearmwrestlingarchives.com/uploads/5/2/3/2/52328353/8898656.jpg?219 Watch it here]].

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The game is quite obscure due to not seeing much distribution outside Japan, but in 1992 it received a much [[SequelDisplacement more well-known sequel]] ''Arm Champs II'', which features the same premise but against nine opponents, the last of which appears in four forms: Trixie (a female bodybuilder from Russia), Chang (a street performer from Taiwan), Atlas (the Prince of Planet "Amusement" from the Universe), Turk (a retired soldier from Egypt), Duke (an ex-champion professional boxer from The U.S.A.), The Rock (a fast-footed wrestler from England), Goliath (A bodybuilder from France), Shibayama (the strongest sumo-wrestler from Japan) and Specks (a Robo-Arm-Wrestler from The U.S.A.)

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The game is quite obscure due to not seeing much distribution outside Japan, but in Japan. There's also a popular story that the game was forced off the market due to being too strong, to the point players got injured by it. In 1992 it received a much [[SequelDisplacement more well-known sequel]] ''Arm Champs II'', which features the same premise but against nine opponents, the last of which appears in four forms: Trixie (a female bodybuilder from Russia), Chang (a street performer from Taiwan), Atlas (the Prince of Planet "Amusement" from the Universe), Turk (a retired soldier from Egypt), Duke (an ex-champion professional boxer from The U.S.A.), The Rock (a fast-footed wrestler from England), Goliath (A bodybuilder from France), Shibayama (the strongest sumo-wrestler from Japan) and Specks (a Robo-Arm-Wrestler from The U.S.A.)


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* DifficultyLevels: The computer controlled opponents present different difficulty level, with the machine generating more pressure with each opponent.
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''Arm Champs'' is a 1988 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Creator/Jaleco, in which the player can arm wrestle against multiple virtual opponents. The game console consists of a robotic arm that simulates the strength and pressure of the computer-controlled opponent who appears on the screen, against which the player must wrestle while the screen shows the opponent reacting to the match. The objective is to beat a total of five opponents from around the world: Nessie Papillon (a female champ and a British professional wrestler), Mad Foreman (an unemployed man from Germany), Cho Yeongping (a Chinese fisherman), Mike Robinson (a South African miner), and Wolf Adams (an American convoy driver).

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''Arm Champs'' is a 1988 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Creator/Jaleco, Creator/{{Jaleco}}, in which the player can arm wrestle against multiple virtual opponents. The game console consists of a robotic arm that simulates the strength and pressure of the computer-controlled opponent who appears on the screen, against which the player must wrestle while the screen shows the opponent reacting to the match. The objective is to beat a total of five opponents from around the world: Nessie Papillon (a female champ and a British professional wrestler), Mad Foreman (an unemployed man from Germany), Cho Yeongping (a Chinese fisherman), Mike Robinson (a South African miner), and Wolf Adams (an American convoy driver).
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''Arm Champs'' is a 1988 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Jaleco, in which the player can arm wrestle against multiple virtual opponents. The game console consists of a robotic arm that simulates the strength and pressure of the computer-controlled opponent who appears on the screen, against which the player must wrestle while the screen shows the opponent reacting to the match. The objective is to beat a total of five opponents from around the world: Nessie Papillon (a female champ and a British professional wrestler), Mad Foreman (an unemployed man from Germany), Cho Yeongping (a Chinese fisherman), Mike Robinson (a South African miner), and Wolf Adams (an American convoy driver).

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''Arm Champs'' is a 1988 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Jaleco, Creator/Jaleco, in which the player can arm wrestle against multiple virtual opponents. The game console consists of a robotic arm that simulates the strength and pressure of the computer-controlled opponent who appears on the screen, against which the player must wrestle while the screen shows the opponent reacting to the match. The objective is to beat a total of five opponents from around the world: Nessie Papillon (a female champ and a British professional wrestler), Mad Foreman (an unemployed man from Germany), Cho Yeongping (a Chinese fisherman), Mike Robinson (a South African miner), and Wolf Adams (an American convoy driver).
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* SequelDisplacement: Arm Champs II saw a much wider release worldwide and is thus far better known than its predecessor.
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''Arm Champs'' is a 1988 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Jaleco, in which the player can arm wrestle against multiple virtual opponents. The game console consists of a robotic arm that simulates the strength and pressure of the computer-controlled opponent who appears on the screen, against which the player must wrestle while the screen shows the opponent reacting to the match. The objective is to beat a total of five opponents from around the world: Nessie Papillon (a female champ and a British professional wrestler), Mad Foreman (an unemployed man from Germany), Cho Yeongping (a Chinese fisherman), Mike Robinson (a South African miner), and Wolf Adams (an American convoy driver).

The game is quite obscure due to not seeing much distribution outside Japan, but in 1992 it received a much [[SequelDisplacement more well-known sequel]] ''Arm Champs II'', which features the same premise but against nine opponents, the last of which appears in four forms: Trixie (a female bodybuilder from Russia), Chang (a street performer from Taiwan), Atlas (the Prince of Planet "Amusement" from the Universe), Turk (a retired soldier from Egypt), Duke (an ex-champion professional boxer from The U.S.A.), The Rock (a fast-footed wrestler from England), Goliath (A bodybuilder from France), Shibayama (the strongest sumo-wrestler from Japan) and Specks (a Robo-Arm-Wrestler from The U.S.A.)

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* AnvilOnHead: For some inexplicable reason The Rock from ''II'' gets hit on the head by a green 1000T barrel upon being defeated.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Atlas from ''II'' is dressed like a superhero, with a large A on his forehead.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: There are in total 5 different versions of Specks in ''II''. The four you need to wrestle have the colors blue, [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], Green and Red. There’s also a golden one, but you don’t face him as an opponent. Instead, he appears in a minigame that measures the players strength.
* {{Cyborg}}: Specks from II is a cyborg. Only the lower part of his face is still flesh, everything else is metal, and he speaks with a robotic voice.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: All versions of Specks explode upon being defeated.
* ExcusePlot: Defeat all opponents to win an arm-wrestling tournament. That’s as far as the plot goes.
* HumanAliens: Atlas from ''II'' looks like a normal human, but he is advertised as the prince from planet Amusement.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: the red armored Specks is the strongest opponent in ''II''.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Trixie is from Russia and an arm-wrestling champion. Downplayed in that she’s the weakest of all opponents in ''II''.
* OcularGushers: Shibayama will unleash these upon being defeated.
* OneSidedArmWrestling: Can happen with a strong enough player beating the computer opponent in mere seconds.
* RetiredBadass: Turk is a retired soldier.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Atlas from ''II'' is an alien Prince who participates in arm wrestling.
* SequelDisplacement: Arm Champs II saw a much wider release worldwide and is thus far better known than its predecessor.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Both games have only a single female opponent, and they both serve as the starter opponent.
* SoreLoser: Turk from ''II'' will start angrily smashing the table when he’s defeated.
* SumoWrestling: One of the strongest opponents in II is a sumo wrestler named Shibayama.
* TestYourStrengthGame: ''II'' has a bonus game where the robot arm will not fight back and instead just measure the amount of pressure the player can unleash.

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