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* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The game pits a magic-using terrorist group against an unnamed soldier with a gun.
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* SquishyWizard: Once the Sorcerer's powerful summoned dragon has both its eyes shot out, which disables the magic barrier protecting him, all it takes is ''one'' bullet to put him down.
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* FlunkyBoss: All the bosses have the ability to [[SumonMagic summon mooks into the arena]]. The goblin sorcerer summons mud {{golem}}s, the Norse god lookalike have [[WingedHumanoid hostile birdmen]] as his backup, while the Giant Cat Colonel have wolves.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Shooting giant cats have never been so much fun!]]
''Riot'' is a 1992 RunAndGun arcade game made by Creator/{{NMK}}.
A terrorist group called the Magic Tigers ('''!!!''') have revived an evil sorcerer defeated centuries in the past, intending to use the sorcerer as means of {{taking over the world}} (what else?). With magic and monsters at their disposal, it's up to your character (an unnamed soldier resembling a blond Schwarzenegger) to stop the Tigers.
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!! Riot contain examples of:
* AirborneMooks: Mooks on helicopters and {{Hover Bike}}s in outdoor levels serves this role.
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The FinalBoss, the sorcerer, who heralds the start of the final battle by summoning the giant head of a dragon taking up the entire screen. The sorcerer spends the entire battle atop the head as the dragon attacks on it's master's behalf.
* AutoScrollingLevel: The stage atop a moving train, and another where you're in a helicopter fending off mooks from all sides.
*BackgroundBoss: All the bosses alternates between facing you foreground of the arena, or moving to the background (which you can't follow) to sic ranged projectiles on you. The sorcerer himself is a more straightforward example, spending the fight in the background on his dragon who does all the attacking for him.
* BlowGun: As you're shooting your way through hordes and hordes of assorted enemies, sometimes the game will throw random HollywoodNatives enemies in the foreground - guys wearing feathers in their hair and shooting darts at you with their blowpipes.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Enemies who wield curved blades appears throughout on a regular basis starting from the second stage, despite the availability of guns and rockets.
* ConstructionVehicleRampage: A wrecking ball crane shows up as a MiniBoss; you must shoot the vehicle while avoiding the dropping ball.
* DoppelgangerSpin: A DualBoss near the end are a pair of hooded wizards who transforms into somewhere between eight to twelve copies of themselves, two which are real and the rest being illusions. The copies don't have the ability to attack, but for most of the battle you'll need to spot the real bosses and shoot them as they prepare to blast you from afar.
* EverythingBreaks: You can destroy ''everything'' in the foreground and background.
* EvilWizard: The Evil Sorcerer revived by the terrorists who serves as the game's FinalBoss.
* FlunkyBoss: All the bosses have the ability to [[SumonMagic summon mooks into the arena]]. The goblin sorcerer summons mud {{golem}}s, the Norse god lookalike have [[WingedHumanoid hostile birdmen]] as his backup, while the Giant Cat Colonel have wolves.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The '''first''' boss already counts under this; after fighting your way through a compound filled with armed soldiers, you then fight a goblin sorcerer (looking a lot like Yoda) who can summon {{golem}}s into battle. Later on you fight an evil Norse God, a Colonel who transforms into a Cat Demon, and the FinalBoss who sics a Dragon on you.
* KillerGorilla: Every now and then, the game will throw a giant gorilla as a [[RecurringBoss Recurring]] MiniBoss who will jump up and down attempting to crush you, or swat you with its fists. The gorilla may or may not have other mooks flanking him, and in one occasion you fight ''[[DualBoss two]]'' of them at the same time.
* LongNeck: Adding to the weirdness of the bosses, the Giant Cat Colonel in cat form can extend his neck to bite at you from the background.
* TheMall: The second stage is inexplicably set in a shopping mall, when the rest of the levels are military or jungle-themed, or otherwise set outdoors like in a valley, an army train or in some desert ruins.
* MegaNeko: The third boss, who seemingly appears to be a regular man in a military uniform. But as soon as you enter, he teleports you to the boss dimension, transforms into a giant cat flanked by wolves, cue boss battle.
* NoNameGiven: Your muscular, bare-chested, machine-gun totting hero isn't given a name at any point in the game, and neither are any of the bosses (not even the main villain, the sorcerer).
* OneManArmy: It's you against an entire army of soldiers, and later against demons, giant gorillas, and assorted monsters.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The FinalBoss is a dragon summoned by the sorcerer, one so large it's head takes up the entire screen. It lacks the common dragon ability to breathe fire, instead using EyeBeams to fry you (which you retaliate by [[EyeScream shooting it's eyes out]]).
* PhantomZone: Each and every boss fight is set in one of these, where as soon as you confront them the boss will teleport you into a black, featureless void with limitless surrounding space. You get to return to the normal plane of living once the boss is killed.
* RailingKill: Enemies in the background behind balconies, high windows and railings will inevitably fall to their deaths when shot.
* SoftWater: Taken to the extreme, with several stages having you falling from aircrafts or rooftops to escape enemies, dropping several hundreds of meters through building awnings or through clouds... before landing in shallow, knee-high pools of water. You then get up looking none the worse for wear, picks up your machine-gun and continues kicking all sorts of ass.
* SpreadShot: One of the classic arcade weapons shows up in this one too, which splits your shots into a three-bullet arc.
* StrippedToTheBone: The sorcerer and main villain of the game, upon defeat, turns into a robed skeleton in the following cutscene. Before the bones fade to dust turning into EmptyPilesOfClothing. Roll credits.
* TraintopBattle: The second stage have you fending off enemies while atop a train, with mooks either on helicopters or climbing up the train's edges. At one point another train carrying extra mooks will pull up, and their occupants will leap from their traintop to ''yours''.
* UniquenessDecay: The first stage have a single red-clad, blade-wielding mook you encounter right before the first boss battle, amidst the dozens and dozens of soldiers armed with guns. From the second stage onwards blade-using enemies started appearing regularly.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Shooting giant cats have never been so much fun!]]
''Riot'' is a 1992 RunAndGun arcade game made by Creator/{{NMK}}.
A terrorist group called the Magic Tigers ('''!!!''') have revived an evil sorcerer defeated centuries in the past, intending to use the sorcerer as means of {{taking over the world}} (what else?). With magic and monsters at their disposal, it's up to your character (an unnamed soldier resembling a blond Schwarzenegger) to stop the Tigers.
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!! Riot contain examples of:
* AirborneMooks: Mooks on helicopters and {{Hover Bike}}s in outdoor levels serves this role.
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The FinalBoss, the sorcerer, who heralds the start of the final battle by summoning the giant head of a dragon taking up the entire screen. The sorcerer spends the entire battle atop the head as the dragon attacks on it's master's behalf.
* AutoScrollingLevel: The stage atop a moving train, and another where you're in a helicopter fending off mooks from all sides.
*BackgroundBoss: All the bosses alternates between facing you foreground of the arena, or moving to the background (which you can't follow) to sic ranged projectiles on you. The sorcerer himself is a more straightforward example, spending the fight in the background on his dragon who does all the attacking for him.
* BlowGun: As you're shooting your way through hordes and hordes of assorted enemies, sometimes the game will throw random HollywoodNatives enemies in the foreground - guys wearing feathers in their hair and shooting darts at you with their blowpipes.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Enemies who wield curved blades appears throughout on a regular basis starting from the second stage, despite the availability of guns and rockets.
* ConstructionVehicleRampage: A wrecking ball crane shows up as a MiniBoss; you must shoot the vehicle while avoiding the dropping ball.
* DoppelgangerSpin: A DualBoss near the end are a pair of hooded wizards who transforms into somewhere between eight to twelve copies of themselves, two which are real and the rest being illusions. The copies don't have the ability to attack, but for most of the battle you'll need to spot the real bosses and shoot them as they prepare to blast you from afar.
* EverythingBreaks: You can destroy ''everything'' in the foreground and background.
* EvilWizard: The Evil Sorcerer revived by the terrorists who serves as the game's FinalBoss.
* FlunkyBoss: All the bosses have the ability to [[SumonMagic summon mooks into the arena]]. The goblin sorcerer summons mud {{golem}}s, the Norse god lookalike have [[WingedHumanoid hostile birdmen]] as his backup, while the Giant Cat Colonel have wolves.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The '''first''' boss already counts under this; after fighting your way through a compound filled with armed soldiers, you then fight a goblin sorcerer (looking a lot like Yoda) who can summon {{golem}}s into battle. Later on you fight an evil Norse God, a Colonel who transforms into a Cat Demon, and the FinalBoss who sics a Dragon on you.
* KillerGorilla: Every now and then, the game will throw a giant gorilla as a [[RecurringBoss Recurring]] MiniBoss who will jump up and down attempting to crush you, or swat you with its fists. The gorilla may or may not have other mooks flanking him, and in one occasion you fight ''[[DualBoss two]]'' of them at the same time.
* LongNeck: Adding to the weirdness of the bosses, the Giant Cat Colonel in cat form can extend his neck to bite at you from the background.
* TheMall: The second stage is inexplicably set in a shopping mall, when the rest of the levels are military or jungle-themed, or otherwise set outdoors like in a valley, an army train or in some desert ruins.
* MegaNeko: The third boss, who seemingly appears to be a regular man in a military uniform. But as soon as you enter, he teleports you to the boss dimension, transforms into a giant cat flanked by wolves, cue boss battle.
* NoNameGiven: Your muscular, bare-chested, machine-gun totting hero isn't given a name at any point in the game, and neither are any of the bosses (not even the main villain, the sorcerer).
* OneManArmy: It's you against an entire army of soldiers, and later against demons, giant gorillas, and assorted monsters.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The FinalBoss is a dragon summoned by the sorcerer, one so large it's head takes up the entire screen. It lacks the common dragon ability to breathe fire, instead using EyeBeams to fry you (which you retaliate by [[EyeScream shooting it's eyes out]]).
* PhantomZone: Each and every boss fight is set in one of these, where as soon as you confront them the boss will teleport you into a black, featureless void with limitless surrounding space. You get to return to the normal plane of living once the boss is killed.
* RailingKill: Enemies in the background behind balconies, high windows and railings will inevitably fall to their deaths when shot.
* SoftWater: Taken to the extreme, with several stages having you falling from aircrafts or rooftops to escape enemies, dropping several hundreds of meters through building awnings or through clouds... before landing in shallow, knee-high pools of water. You then get up looking none the worse for wear, picks up your machine-gun and continues kicking all sorts of ass.
* SpreadShot: One of the classic arcade weapons shows up in this one too, which splits your shots into a three-bullet arc.
* StrippedToTheBone: The sorcerer and main villain of the game, upon defeat, turns into a robed skeleton in the following cutscene. Before the bones fade to dust turning into EmptyPilesOfClothing. Roll credits.
* TraintopBattle: The second stage have you fending off enemies while atop a train, with mooks either on helicopters or climbing up the train's edges. At one point another train carrying extra mooks will pull up, and their occupants will leap from their traintop to ''yours''.
* UniquenessDecay: The first stage have a single red-clad, blade-wielding mook you encounter right before the first boss battle, amidst the dozens and dozens of soldiers armed with guns. From the second stage onwards blade-using enemies started appearing regularly.
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