Joy Mech Fight (ジョイメカファイト, Joi Meka Faito), sometimes called Joy Mecha Fight, is a fighting game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer, released in Japan on May 21, 1993. The game was released during the generation shift between the Famicom and the newer Super Famicom, and Joy Mech Fight is counted among the most important late Famicom games for utilizing the console's audio and visual capabilities to the fullest extent. It is also Nintendo's first attempt in the fighting game genre since Urban Champion after the success and craze of Capcom's Street Fighter II, which inspired other companies to create their own 2D fighters. The game was released on Wii Virtual Console in March 2008 in Japan, Wii Virtual Console in March 2009 in South Korea, Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in September 2013 in Japan, Wii U Virtual Console in May 2014 in Japan, Nintendo Switch Online in January 2019 in Japan and Hong Kong, and Nintendo Switch Online in September 2023 in North America, the PAL region, and South Korea.
Release Date 2023-09-01
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Once upon a time there were two scientists, Dr. Little Emon (リトルイーモン) and Dr. Ivan Walnuts (イワンワルナッチ) (renamed to "Ermin" and "Warner" in an English fan translation), who worked together to create the world's most spectacular robots. One day, Dr. Walnuts disappeared with the laboratory's seven military robots before appearing on TV to declare his intention to conquer the world. Sukapon (スカポン, Skah-pon), an owarai robot who had been training in the Kansai region, is called back to the laboratory by Dr. Emon, who remodels Sukapon into a military robot in a last-ditch effort to stop his evil counterpart.
Sukapon's first task was to defeat the seven other robots and allow Dr. Emon to reprogram back to their original selves. All eight robots then proceed to take on Dr. Walnuts's many robots, each wave stronger than the last. After fighting each of their doppelgängers at Dr. Walnuts's castle, they finally face off against the most powerful robot, Hō'ō (ホウオウ, Hoh-oh), on the surface of the Moon.
After Hō'ō is destroyed, Dr. Walnuts attempts to flee in his ship, but his ship malfunctions and explodes. Fortunately, Dr. Emon rescues Dr. Walnuts from the Moon's surface. Dr. Walnuts later wakes up, back to his normal self, and Dr. Emon convinces him that everything that happened was just a dream. Sukapon is remodeled back into an owarai robot, and all is returned to normal.