Beraboh Man, or BravoMan as it's best known in the US, is at heart, an
over the top parody of the
Japanese favorite
Ultraman from
1988. Of course,
Namco doing over the top in the late
80's is nothing new, as proven in
Quest of Pistol Daimyo,
Wonder Momo, and the
Famicom port of
Splatterhouse. The gamelay was of the
sidescrolling level variety. And due to the subject matter, this was a huge hit in
Japan, but unfortunately it never made it stateside, as
Atari thought it was "too strange" to pick up the rights on.
Namco then ported the game to NEC's PC-Engine, where the game did great sales numbers. Afterwards NEC's US games department decided to pick up the game for the TurboGrafx-16 and translate it. And the translation was indeed, a very good example of engrish in video games. Or maybe it was meant to be. In any case, the original japanese arcade game is playable in MAME.
Marchen Maze -- Baraduke 2