The idea behind it is that the fighters are battling for supremacy, but instead of just kicking seven bells out of each other, they're using their brains. Created by Capcom, it features the Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers fighters in a highly addictive gem-dropping puzzle fest. Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo is endowed with a healthy dose of Japanese weirdness, and it's all the better for it. Yep, weird is good - I'd rather have 'Attack of the Giant Carrot' than some of the blatantly copied crap that's currently floating around the US + UK industries. I mean, what do they put in the water over there? Because whatever it is, it should be force-fed to the staff of all those game companies that keep churning out Command and Conquer clones. You have to remember, this is the country that came up with Tagamotchi, a bleeping maniacal pet-on-a-keyring, all those Godzilla vs the Fifty Foot Moth Bloke movies, and much much more. there are a veritable mountain of weird games that never see the light of day over here that, if I didn't know better, I'd swear had been written under the influence of some mad mind-altering drug. But that's only the stuff that gets released over here. there's also Parodius, a truly bizarre shoot-em-up, in which you have to deal with such hazards as flying pink penguins, giant cat-headed ships, and even gigantic belly dancers. I'm not just talking about Super Mario World.

Quite a few games reviewers have said that French games are weird, and while this may be true to some extent, for true weirdness you have to look to the Japanese games industry.

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