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002 - Karnov

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First Appearance - Karnov ( Arcade 1987 )
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[link] Stage 1
[link] Bad Dudes - Battle against Karnov

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Jinborov Karnovski, who is better known as Karnov, is the mascot for the dearly departed Data East. I was not aware that Data East even had a Mascot. I just assumed that it was Joe and Mac.

Anyways.

Karnov is about a fire breathing russian, X-circus strongman, who hears about a treasure. He sets out to retreive several pieces of the map that leads to the treasure. Why did data east tear apart the map like that? ...Well because if Karnov already knew where to go, he could just travel there in a bolt of lightning... which is how he enters each stage.

Karnov's main attack is to spit a single fireball from his mouth, but he has several other items and powerups available to him. The game really seems difficult, but some day I will give it the full playthrough.

Apparently there are two verisons of the game. The Arcade game has different powerups, you die in one hit, the final boss is a wizard, and it actually has an ending, showing Karnov flinging the treasure into the air, laughing.

In the NES version of the game, you die in two hits, the powerups are different, the final boss is a three headed dragon, and the ending is just a black screen that says: Congradulations the end.


Karnov went on to have his own fighting game apparently, and he even was featured in other games..... strangely in mostly villainous roles.

He was actually the first boss in Bad Dudes, and the background music is a remix of the Karnov theme. There are plenty of others too.

I wasn't going to include him at first... because I forgot about this guy. I remembered that my bro used to play this game once in a while... and the fact that he was the face of Data East made me want to draw him. He seems cool.

To be honest I played a fighting game with him in it, and he was fuck ugly... so I just chose to make him resemble his arcade sprite more closely.
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Asuma17's avatar
This is awesome and funny. Nappa have you been holding back another twin brother you didn't mention about?

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