History VideoGame / FrankoTheCrazyRevenge

One of [[PolishMedia Poland's]] earliest commercial games developed for [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} the Commodore Amiga]], this 1994 BeatEmUp's main draw was undoubtedly its setting that quite accurately replicated the few areas of the actual Szczecin city (albeit with more crime) and its off-kitler tone. All of that helped the game secure its CultClassic status within its country of origin despite [[StylisticSuck its amateurish visuals]] and some technical deficiencies.

** The sequel ''Skinny and Franko'' still begins on Szczecin, but the game would have locations based on other Polish cities, including Gdansk, which is where Blue Sunset Games is based.

After twenty-eight years, it received an announced sequel, ''Skinny and Franko: Fists of Violence'', on Steam.

--->'''Skinny: ''' Fat-arse is bullshitting us that the pain in his crotch prevents him from walking. Right, well... if you need a helping hand, you'll find one [[ADateWithRosiePalms at the end of your arm.]]

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* {{Gorn}}: Downplayed as there's no [[VideoGame/MortalKombatI ripping off spines]] and anything near that hardcore[[note]]World Software's next game ''Doman: Sins of Ardan'' would up the ante with decapitations as well as amounts of SceneryGorn in some of the stages.[[/note]], but nonetheless at the time the game did stood out in the genre with its level of violence, with blood spraying out and painting the floor quite a bit and bodies of the defeated staying down in a rather bad shape rather than [[EverythingFades blinking out of existence]].

* ProductionForeshadowing: One of the blocs in the first stage has "DOMAN" written on it, and it's also one of Franko's cheat codes. World Software's next game after ''Franko'' would turn out to be Sword & Sorcery-themed SpiritualSuccessor ''Doman: Grzechy Ardana''.[[labelnote:Translation]]Doman: Sins of Ardan[[/labelnote]]

One of [[PolishMedia Poland's]] earliest commercial games developed for [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} the Commodore Amiga]], this 1994 BeatEmUp's main draw was undoubtedly it's setting that quite accurately replicated the few areas of the actual Szczecin city (albeit with more crime) and it's off-kitler tone. All of that helped the game secure it's CultClassic status within it's country of origin despite [[StylisticSuck it's amateurish visuals]] and some technical deficiencies.

* {{Gorn}}: Downplayed as there's no [[VideoGame/MortalKombatI ripping off spines]] and anything near that hardcore[[note]]World Software's next game ''Doman: Sins of Ardan'' would up the ante with decapitations as well as amounts of SceneryGorn in some of the stages.[[/note]], but nonetheless at the time the game did stood out in the genre with it's level of violence, with blood spraying out and painting the floor quite a bit and bodies of the defeated staying down in a rather bad shape rather than [[EverythingFades blinking out of existence]].

* StylisticSuck / OffModel: Diplomaticly speaking, the graphics aren't exactly great, yet they do sort of add to it's charm.

* UnfortunateNames: If you know anything about the Polish language, you'd know that Klocek's (nick)name is not very flattering.

* {{Expy}}:Franko certainly shares [[VideoGame/FinalFight Cody's]] wardrobe.
* FanDisservice: Let's just say you really wouldn't want to let one of those exhibitionists from the third level go anybody near you.

* RealPlaceBackground: Each of the three stages are based on Szczecin's noted streets that - aside of few streamlined areas there and there - are recreated as meticulously as the artist Mariusz Pawluk's Deluxe Paint skills would have allowed him.[[note]]The password for the second stage is CENT as in Szczecin's ''Centre'' district and the third stage's passcode is DRZE, as in the Drzetowo neighbourhood.[[/note]

* DifficultButAwesome: The grapple move, performed by Fire while holding forward. While it's a bit tricky to get used to with how long it takes until you'd grab, when you'd grab a thug you can either do a grapple attack (headbutts, etc.) or throw the opponents [[GreviousHarmWithABody onto other opponents]]. These are among some of your most damaging moves.

[[caption-width-right:320:This is the best this game will ever look.]]

Szczecin, UsefulNotes/{{Poland}}, 1987. Two teenagers roamed through the streets, practicing martial arts for self-defense and showing off. One day they got ambushed by a gang led by a guy named Klocek[[labelnote:Translation]]Fecol[[/labelnote]], and while the two tried fending off, Franko eventually got knocked unconscious and Alex [[KilledOffForReal fared even worse]] ([[UnexplainedRecovery except that he's still a playable character, somehow]]). Swearing revenge, Franko kept on training for few years and in the early nineties he's now ready to take on Klocek, and all of the thugs, punks, skinheads, pakers, karaterkas, crooked cops, ZOMO[[labelnote:Note]]Communist-era Poland's state police, [[AnachronismStew disbanded by the time the game proper is supposed to take place]][[/labelnote]] troopers, [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil a software pirate]], soldiers, exhibitionists and others before him.

* HeyItsThatSound: The game borrows quite a number of sounds from ''VideoGame/{{Final Fight}}''
** Funnily enough, ''Franko'' has more Final Fight sounds than the actual Amiga [[PortingDisaster port]] of ''Final Fight''!

* RatedMForMoney: To the point the game's credits sequence outright states that the developers wanted to make games "of kind the people like", as in "bloody, brutal, cruel, beastily, nice for the eyes and most of all original, like there's nothing like them!"