Mace: The Dark Age (Nintendo 64, 1997)
about 1997PAL
FightingSport
In stock at 2 shops2 shops hold a copy From $44.95 to $46.99 at 2 shops · New and pre-owned, as each shop lists itAlso listed as“Mace: The Dark Age (CART ONLY)” · “Mace: The Dark Age • Loose” (the names New Zealand shops actually use for this release).
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About this game
Mace: The Dark Age is a fighting video game released by Atari for arcade machines in 1997 and ported by Midway to the Nintendo 64 in 1997. The game is similar to Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. and the Mortal Kombat series. Like in Mortal Kombat, when a character wins both rounds, they can perform an execution move on the enemy. Methods included severing an opponent's limbs and torso (Al Rashid), beheading (The Executioner), repeated stabbing (Koyasha), impaling the opponent with a sword (Lord Deimos), breaking an opponent's back by hoisting them on top of a Viking helmet and throwing them to the ground, causing their body to explode (Ragnar), and some more far-fetched methods including pulling out an opponent's heart (Xiao Long), shrinking (Namira), transforming the opponent into a chicken (Taria), and entering an opponent's body and bursting them from inside (Dregan). Note: Heavily borrowing from the arcade game Soul Edge (1995)--first of the Souls Series. Which borrowed heavily from the framework WeaponLord (1995) laid out. Visual Concepts (developers of WeaponLord) would send builds of the game to Namco (the publisher of WeaponLord) to playtest.
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Title and release dates from Wikidata (CC0), enriched from IGDB. Availability and price read from each shop’s own public catalogue, nightly. The price shown is the shop’s own, stated by the shop.