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JAPANAMATION ROCKS!!!!!!!!! so if you were like me in 1992 and loved japanamation and you were into fighting tapes in those days then you know this one for sure. Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat were great. That is true. But any real fighting game fan knew that if you wanted to get serious with your friends to see who was the best of fighting, you played the tape “Ranma and a Half: Hard Battle. ” and it was based on my favorite japanamation i rented from KB video!!!
It is the tape that separates the wimps from the true fighters. Any one can throw fireballs if your ryu. But only this tape lets you fight as the boy or girl version of the hero, Name Ranma. And even other characters are more things, a girl name shampoo becomes a cat, and her husband moose becomes a duck. or Ryoga become a pig. Pretty cool. It all happened because there was a curse on them by satan but in this game the name of satan is pantyhose. which makes it sounds not serious but satan curses are not a joke in this game. they are evil. Anyway now since they are cursed if they get water on them then they become other things.
In ranma and a half: the hard battle, you are a student at a school and this insane principal who likes to spank all the students tells you that you are going to fight all your school mates. And also an older man who is his friend who is called Gambler King. It is a weird story for a nintendo tape and i dont like that the principal wants to spank kids. that seems bad to me, you should only spank your own kids, and that is only if they do something really evil like pull a knife on a boyscout and steal his popcorn order sheet which yes, i did one time when I was 14, but ellis said it would be funny and it was only the can opener of my swiss army knife. once again a fun day became RUINED because of what ELLIS made me do!!!!
I felt bad because it scared the boyscout so bad and ellis stole his popcorn order sheet that he was taking door to door to sell so his troop could go on a honor mission into the forest or something to camp. I was only a scout for a week, I got the uniform and everything then went with ellis but it was boring and I didn’t care about patches. and you had to do this stuff about honor and god and helping people to get patches. I like helping people but honor seems like what samurais used to kill themselves over in the movies and to be honest i got enough god stuff from pastor roy at AWANA so i was not super into getting even more of it while having to camp outside where there is ticks and ants. Or even a bear or bee.
Well guess what, me and Ellis were cooling at my crib after the incident playing some nintendo tapes. a knock happened on the door and i answered it and it was a COP. he wanted to come in and talk and mom and dad let him in. He was really tall and scary looking. he said that one of the other kids on my block said I pulled a knife on him and stole his popcorn sign up sheet. Ellis started laughing and laughed so hard he was red in the face and my mom screamed at him to get out of her house and he left and he was crying laughing on his way out the door. so the cop looked at me and asked what happened.
Well i could not lie, so I said that ellis told me we should prank the boyscout with my new swiss army knife i got for my birthday. it was my second knife I ever got and it rocked it had a little scissor in it, and a tooth pick and a tweezer! I loved it i felt like i was prepared for any situation. i always loved to be prepared.
The police said since i held a knife on a kid i was in huge trouble, but I told him it was only the can opener and i would never really hold out a blade on someone. I said i knew it was a bad trick to play, and that Ellis always had a way to make me feel like his dumb and mean ideas were cool and that if i didnt do them with him then i was stupid and lame.
One thing you never what to be as a kid is stupid and lame.
So i told the cop that I was sorry and I wanted to apologize to the kid I had terrorized. he said I could tomorrow. I didn’t have to go to jail. so that was good. mom and dad were really mad that i was a hoodlem now, basically the evil bad boy of the block. all the parents would now know that the nintendo tape kid was a villain and to keep their kids away from me.
mom and dad yelled at me so hard and grounded me so bad that by the next day they felt really bad and let me go outside and play with Byron but “Stay the hell away from Ellis” which i was unable to do because ellis was at Byron’s house when I went over. I dont’ like to admit this part but when they saw me they started singing “bad boy bad boy what you gonna do when cop comes for you” the theme song of the 80s tv show name COPS. and that made me feel cool because in Ellises eyes i became more criminal and that made me more of a cool guy for the day in his eyes. Even though it was his idea. He liked that I did a crime.
But that night i was trying to watch Harry and the Hendersons on Encore channel and I was so sad over what i done that i couldnt laugh even though that is a really funny movie and it was really one of my favorites, it came out in 1987 and i loved it ever since and at the end when the man slaps Harry and makes him go back into the woods it made me cry becuase i was very emotional after my very first violent crime and i was understandably shook up. that happened in 1991 i hope that the boyscout i terrorized had a happy life. i should call him and see if he is ok.
i bet he hopes i have been in jail for 31 years… 🙁
that is why i give ranma and a half: hard battle nintendo tape a 1/10
if you want to buy the sequal to this tape look at ebay for “ranma and a half: the screen saver: ying and yang was never this much fun”
