Dangerous Streets is a Fighting Game by Flair Software released in 1993 for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, and MS-DOS. You play as one of eight different characters from different parts of the world, beating up others to see if you can become the boss of the Street. Each fighter also has several special moves they can use, even if their designs are somewhat stereotypical.
This game provides examples of:
- Badass Native: Macalosh is the spiritual leader of the Sioux and has learned ancient Indian fighting arts.
- Damn You, Muscle Memory!: The controls overall are really bizarre and laid down without much rhyme nor reason, and a particular standout of the issues with the controls is that it is inconsistent with the characters. Case in point: You'd expect holding just up without the fire button for a neutral jump, and while some characters do just that, with few other characters the same command has them kick instead.
- As a matter of fact, the only two common moves that are consistently laid out are the guard command - which is performed by holding down without the fire button - and a super move - performed by holding down the fire button at neutral position similarly to Body Blows.
- Expressive Health Bar: The fighter's portrait in their respective corner shows some damage below 500 health and even more below 200 health.
- Expy: It isn't easy to look at Tony and not think of John Travolta as Danny Zuko.
- Few would linken Pinen to Bob Hoskins' Mario, especially with the exact shape of their hats.
- Loading Screen: There's a fancy blue screen with the words "Loading" and the title patterned in the background.
- Ms. Fanservice: Both of the two female characters. Lola is estimated to be the tallest of the entire roster and is stated to be a supermodel in-universe, while Luisa - an apparent gym teacher - literally dresses like a stripper with her thigh high boots, gloves and Barely-There Swimwear. Sadly, the game's poor graphics severely dampen the appeal they would've otherwise had.
- Mirror Match: One of the matches will have you face off with the character you're playing as. Their design and color scheme are virtually unchanged.
- The Power of Hate: According to the manual, Tony medidates for hours each day, summoning all evil and hatred in the world, which he uses for fighting.
- Scully Box: An in-universe example with the blue monk Keo. Described as a shortest character with 145cm of height, he wears springs on his feet to keep up with the rest of the cast height-wise.
- Smoldering Shoes: Luisa's death animation has her disintegrate, leaving nothing but the thigh high boots and gloves behind.
- Spam Attack: The game shares the similar issue with Rise of the Robots in that performing the same fast move over and over would carry you through most of the arcade run, made more egregious with the combination of lack of knockback on the attacks and Artificial Stupidity.
- Stout Strength: Pinen is noted to have a "pot belly", but he hits like a truck.
- Versus Character Splash: There's a black-and-white versus screen with one character in the top-left corner and one in the bottom-right corner.
- Visual Pun: Luisa's guard anmation has her morph into a cube. She morphs into a literal block to block oncoming damage.
- Weaponised Headgear: One of Pinen's attacks is throwing his cap.
- A Winner Is You: Your only rewarding for beating all opponents is a screen featuring all the characters in the game, a congratulatory message, and credits. There are no character-specific endings.
- Wreathed in Flames: One of Ombra's special moves covers him in fire, then he launches himself at the opponent.
