Aah! Harimanada

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Aah! Harimanada
AUTHOR/VENDOR:    Kodansha
RELEASED:         1993
TYPE:             Fighting
LANGUAGE:         Japanese

PREMISE:          Sumo wrestling, like most sports, is an acquired taste.
                  Western audiences for the most part fail to grasp the
                  rich tradition behind this Japanese sport and instead
                  focus on appearances - two really fat guys standing on a
                  square wooden plaftorm and trying like crazy to shove
                  each other out of a ring inscribed within the edges of
                  the platform.  Once you understand sumo and its rituals,
                  though, it can be just as entertaining (and in my opinion
                  even more so) than its American so-called "professional"
                  counterpart.

IMPRESSIONS:      Faithful to the sport except for some obvious Street
                  Fighter 2 inspired touches.  Great graphics, great sound,
                  decent gameplay.  Hey, did I just see Akebono in there?

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