History VideoGame / JoyMechFight

* BlindingBangs: Dr. Emon.

While the game remains largely ignored by Nintendo overseas outside of cameos in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, you can check out its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/UchuMegaFight'' for more cartoony floating limb fighting.

''Joy Mech Fight'' is a FightingGame that Nintendo developed for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]], with {{No Export|ForYou}} from Japan, in 1993. It pushes the limitations of the 8-bit console by making all the characters have [[FloatingLimbs their body parts float separately]], which makes for smooth animations while not spending much of the memory capacity. Surprisingly for a Famicom FightingGame, the controls work well and there are even tutorials on each character's moveset.

* AntiAir: Many of the bots have attacks used on the ground that are best effective when an opposing bot jumps at them. For instance, Flame and Blaze have Fire Fury and Rainbow Fury respectively. In Practice mode, if there is an attack that is primarily Anti-Air, the description of the move will say "As enemy jumps at you, [Move name]!!" though there are some attacks where it doesn't, such as Jibber's Sucker Punch.

* DeathThrows: After a robot loses all its health, its entire body explodes and falls apart. In Stage 1 of War, defeating an enemy robot leads to it's head being knocked aside, allowing Dr. Emon to reprogram it.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: How you get your playable characters in 1P War: by reprogramming the first wave of encountered robots gone rogue.

* DemBones: Ghoston is a robot with a skull head and chest with no limbs- instead using the four glowing orbs that surround it to fight. Ivan claims he's actually a BackFromTheDead Ra.

* EnergyBall: A good number of the robots incorporate these in their attacks, whenever they're used as projectiles or not.

* FloatingLimbs: Every single fighter, mostly done to save on Famicom memory.

* HyperactiveSprite: The most notable one has to be Sukapon and the corresponding MovesetClone Sukapokon, who are constantly spinning.
* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Sukapon is implicitly this, after the game explains that he's a "comedy robot" who was undergoing training in Kansai. Dr. Walnut mocks Sukapon during the prologue as well.

** The music speeds up when a robot is on his last life.

** Sukapon can headbutt with Koninaran and as a KiManipulation of sorts shoots heads with the Tondeker. Skapokon also has access to Tondeker, but trades in Koninaran for [[RapidFireFisticuffs Nonsense]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:The two doctors return to being friends, and Sukapon is returns to owarai to become the best comedian in the world!]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: More than 32 "regular" robots and 4 bosses who could be played as if you were good enough to beat special mode. [[SugarWiki/GeniusProgramming On the Famicom.]] This was the largest roster in any fighting game until ''Videogame/TheKingOfFighters 98''.

* CounterAttack: How Eye's Eye-Astrong primarily functions, though it also works if your opponent simply walks into you.

* MovesetClone: Plenty. We have Bok-Bok and John; Ra and Ghoston; Zak and Super-Zak; Giant, Giganto, and Gaean; Neo, Geo, and Nay; Senju and Ashura; Sasuku and Hanzor; Flame and Blaze; Tiger and Leo; and Sukapon and Skapokon.

* OffWithHisHead: During battle, strong attacks have a chance of knocking a mech's head clean off its body, requiring it to pick it up and re-attach it to its body, usually giving the opponent a free shot. This is also the result if a mech loses all its energy and it still has a life or two remaining.

* PlayingWithFire: Flame and Blaze, of course.
* RainOfSomethingUnusual: Flame and Blaze have the moves Fire Fury and Rainbow Fury respectively, where they punch the ground and embers quickly come down from above near where they stand. The game calls them AntiAir attacks.

* {{Shotoclone}}: Tiger and Neo.

** In "war" mode at least. The first seven robots and Sukapon are probably the weakest on the roster and they are the only ones usable in that mode. In other modes where you can use the other robots the bosses are not so bad.
** Most blatant in the final wave of robots, who are just {{Palette Swap}}s of the original 8, except better in every way.
* SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: The music speeds up when a robot is on his last life.

* ThisIsADrill: Neo and Ashura have drills on their bodies that float just above their heads.

* UseYourHead: Sukapon can headbutt with Koninaran and as a KiManipulation of sorts shoots heads with the Tondeker. Skapokon also has access to Tondeker, but trades in Koninaran for [[RapidFireFisticuffs Nonsense]].

* EvilMakeover: The first seven robots have been given evil looks, but after being rescued they change back to their nicer designs. [[spoiler:Dr. Walnut also gets one when he becomes evil, and reverts back once he regains consciousness in the ending.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:The two doctors return to being friends, and Sukapon is "remade back into his original funny self, whereupon he made people laugh and became the best comedian in the world"!]]

* DummiedOut: Two fighters: a TinCanRobot and a MonsterClown. They may have been replaced by Giganto and John, considering the MightyGlacier mold (and similar facial features) of the tin-can bot and Giganto's designs, and the clown and John both have EnergyBall[=s=] above their heads that they can use to attack.

* UseYourHead: Sukapon can headbutt with Koninaran and as a KiAttack of sorts shoots heads with the Tondeker. Skapokon also has access to Tondeker, but trades in Koninaran for [[RapidFireFisticuffs Nonsense]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:The two doctors return to being friends, and Sukapon is remade back into its original funny self, whereupon it made people laugh and became the best comedian in the world!]]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Moveset Clones are intentionally made to be superior to their oheriginal counterparts, with greater power and more useful special moves.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Moveset Clones are intentionally made to be superior to their original counterparts, with greater power and more useful special moves.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:The two doctors return to being friends, and Sukapon is "remade back into his original funny self", whereupon "He made people laugh and became the best comedian in the world!"]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The two doctors return to being friends, and Sukapon is "remade back into his original funny self", whereupon "He made people laugh and became the best comedian in the world!"

** [[spoiler:Beating it again on Special will add the four boss bots Dachon, Ra, Garborg, and Ho-Oh to the playable roster.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Sukapon is "remade back into his original funny self", whereupon "He made people laugh and became the best comedian in the world!"
* WholePlotReference: The plot is very similar to that of ''VideoGame/MegaMan1''. Though unlike that game, the robots you face in Stage 1 (which consist of the heroic robots gone bad) are reprogrammed back onto your side after defeating them instead of being flat-out destroyed in Mega Man's case.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: More than 32 "regular" robots and 4 bosses who could be played as if you were good enough to beat special mode. [[GeniusProgramming On the Famicom.]] This was the largest roster in any fighting game until ''Videogame/TheKingOfFighters 98''.

''Joy Mech Fight'' is a FightingGame that Nintendo developed for the [[Videogame/{{NES}} Famicom]], with {{No Export|ForYou}} from Japan, in 1993. It pushes the limitations of the 8-bit console by making all the characters have [[FloatingLimbs their body parts float separately]], which makes for smooth animations while not spending much of the memory capacity. Surprisingly for a Famicom FightingGame, the controls work well and there are even tutorials on each character's moveset.

The plot of the game tells of Dr. Little Emon, who created robots with the help of his best friend, Dr. Ivan Walnut. One day Dr. Emon finds the laboratory destroyed and the seven robots that were being worked on are nowhere to be seen. Turns out Dr. Walnut is behind it all, intent on conquering the world. Betrayed, Dr. Emon calls his eighth robot, the comedian Sukapon, to be reprogrammed into a battle robot to put an end to Dr. Warner's plans.

* ShesAManInJapan: Meta example; Sukapon being a robot along with Japanese language eschewing pronouns means Sukapon has no confirmed gender. While there's exceptions on both sides, Japanese fans tend to see Sukapon as feminine whereas western fans mostly see Sukapon as a "he" as shown by the FanTranslation.

* DemBones: Ghoston is a robot with a skull head and chest with no limbs- instead using the four glowing orbs that surround it to fight. Warner claims he's actually a BackFromTheDead Ra.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Sukapon is " remade back into his original funny self", whereupon he proceeds to become "the best comedian in the world!"

* MovesetClone: Plenty. We have Bok-Bok and John; Ra and Ghoston; Zak and Super-Zak; Giant, Giganto, and Gaean; Neo, Geo, and Nay; Senju and Ashura; Sasuku and Hanzor; Flame and Blaze; Tiger and Leo; and Sukapon and Sukapokon.

** The move Nonsense, in which the user endlessly flails their hands forwards. It is shared by [=BokBok=] and Sukapokon.

* SNKBoss

* UseYourHead: Sukapon can headbutt with Koninaran and as a KiAttack of sorts shoots heads with the Tondeker. Sukapokon also has access to Tondeker, but trades in Koninaran for [[RapidFireFisticuffs Nonsense]].

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:Subverted at the end. Warner ''tries'', but runs out of gas, leading to his saucer exploding, resulting in Dr. Emon picking up his unconscious body from the Moon's surface and returning back to Earth, where Dr. Walnut reverts from his villainous facade right in front of Ermin's eyes.]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: Dachon. It's defenses are practically non existent but it's the first mech to completely outclass all of your own on the offensive side of things.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Ermin and Warner reprogram Sukapon "back into her original funny self", whereupon she proceeds to become "the best comedian in the world!"

The plot of the game tells of Dr. Little Ermin, who created robots with the help of his best friend, Dr. Ivan Warner. One day Dr. Ermin finds the laboratory destroyed and the seven robots that were being worked on are nowhere to be seen. Turns out Dr. Warner is behind it all, intent on conquering the world. Betrayed, Dr. Ermin calls his eighth robot, the comedian Skapon, to be reprogrammed into a battle robot to put an end to Dr. Warner's plans.

* AerithAndBob: There's robots with one-word noun names (like Flame and Tiger) or Japanese names (like Skapon.) And then there's Zak and John.

* AstralFinale: The final battle against Houou is on the surface of the moon, with Dr. Walnuts watching.

* BlindingBangs: Dr. Ermin.

* DeathThrows: After a robot loses all its health, its entire body explodes and falls apart. In Stage 1 of War, defeating an enemy robot leads to it's head being knocked aside, allowing Dr. Ermin to reprogram it.

* EvilMakeover: The first seven robots have been given evil looks, but after being rescued they change back to their nicer designs. [[spoiler:Dr. Walnuts also gets one when he becomes evil, and reverts back once he regains consciousness in the ending.]]
* EvolvingCredits: The staff roll gets several changes depending on which difficulty you beat the game on. [[spoiler:On Normal, only Skapon is shown. On Hard, the other seven heroic robots join the staff roll, and on Special, they're all colored into their 2P colors including Skapon.]]
* {{Expy}}: Dr. Ermin and Dr. Warner are expies of [[VideoGame/MegaMan Dr. Light and Dr. Wily]].
* FaceHeelTurn: Dr. Warner. [[spoiler:In the end he loses his memories and is convinced by Dr. Emon that everything was a "bad dream".]]

* FreakLabAccident: Implied in the game's opening sequence to be Skapon's origin, with an angry-looking white robot in the process of being brought to life, only for the power to cut and the capsule to suddenly explode, which does cause the robot to be brought to life, but as the comedic pink Skapon with BlackBeadEyes.

* HyperactiveSprite: The most notable one has to be Skapon and the corresponding MovesetClone Skapokon, who are constantly spinning.

* MovesetClone: Plenty. We have Bok-Bok>John, Ra>Ghoston, Zak>Super-Zak, Giant>Giganto>Gaean, Neo>Geo>Nay, Senju>Ashura, Sasuku>Hanzor, Flame>Blaze, Tiger>Leo, and Skapon>Skapokon.

** The move Nonsense, in which the user endlessly flails their hands forwards. It is shared by [=BokBok=] and Skapokon.

* RollingAttack: Skapon's Skapon Roll.

** In "war" mode at least. The first seven robots and Skapon are probably the weakest on the roster and they are the only ones useable in that mode. In other modes where you can use the other robots the bosses are not so bad.

* UseYourHead: Skapon can headbutt with Koninaran and as a KiAttack of sorts shoots heads with the Tondeker. Skapokon also has access to Tondeker, but trades in Koninaran for [[RapidFireFisticuffs Nonsense]].

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:Subverted at the end. Warner ''tries'', but runs out of gas, leading to his saucer exploding, resulting in Dr. Emon picking up his unconscious body from the Moon's surface and returning back to Earth, where Dr. Warner reverts from his villainous facade right in front of Ermin's eyes.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Ermin and Warner reprogram Skapon "back into his original funny self", whereupon he proceeds to become "the best comedian in the world!"

* FreakLabAccident: Implied in the game's opening sequence to be Skapon's origin, with an Angry-looking white robot in the process of being brought to life, only for the power to cut and the capsule to suddenly explode, which does cause the robot to be brought to life, but as the comedic pink Skapon with BlackBeadEyes.

''Joy Mech Fight'' is a FightingGame that Nintendo developed for the [[{{NES}} Fami]][[NoExportForYou com]] in 1993. It pushes the limitations of the 8-bit console by making all the characters have [[FloatingLimbs their body parts float separately]], which makes for smooth animations while not spending much of the memory capacity. Surprisingly for a Famicom FightingGame, the controls work well and there are even tutorials on each character's moveset.

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** A computer-controlled Gel will switch between visible and invisible rather than staying invisible all the time. [[JustifiedTrope This is likely for the player's benefit, though,]] and considering a human player would probably have difficulties playing an invisible Gel since they can't see him either.

The plot of the game tells of Dr. Little Ermin, who created robots with the help of his best friend, Dr. Ivan Warner. One day Dr. Ermin finds the laboratory destroyed and the seven robots that were being worked on are nowhere to be seen. Turns out Dr. Warner is behind it all, intent on conquering the world. Betrayed, Dr. Ermin calls his eighth robot, the comedian Sukapon, to be reprogrammed into a battle robot to put an end to Dr. Warner's plans.

* AerithAndBob: There's robots with one-word noun names (like Flame and Tiger) or Japanese names (like Sukapon.) And then there's Zak and John.

* EvolvingCredits: The staff roll gets several changes depending on which difficulty you beat the game on. [[spoiler:On Normal, only Sukapon is shown. On Hard, the other seven heroic robots join the staff roll, and on Special, they're all colored into their 2P colors including Sukapon.]]

* FreakLabAccident: Implied in the game's opening sequence to be Sukapon's origin, with an Angry-looking white robot in the process of being brought to life, only for the power to cut and the capsule to suddenly explode, which does cause the robot to be brought to life, but as the comedic pink Sukapon with BlackBeadEyes.

* HyperactiveSprite: The most notable one has to be Sukapon and the corresponding MovesetClone Sukapokon, who are constantly spinning.

* MovesetClone: Plenty. We have Bok-Bok>John, Ra>Ghoston, Zak>Super-Zak, Giant>Giganto>Gaean, Neo>Geo>Nay, Senju>Ashura, Sasuku>Hanzor, Flame>Blaze, Tiger>Leo, and Sukapon>Skapokon.

* RollingAttack: Sukapon's Sukapon Roll.

** In "war" mode at least. The first seven robots and Sukapon are probably the weakest on the roster and they are the only ones useable in that mode. In other modes where you can use the other robots the bosses are not so bad.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: As no official English version exists, articles covering the game tend to differ on how some of the names should be translated (the FinalBoss's name could be translated as Houou, Hou-ou, Ho-oh, Hoo-oo, Feng Huang, or even simply Phoenix). For consistency's sake, this article will use the FanTranslation's names (Excluding Sukapon, whose name was shown in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'').

* UseYourHead: Sukapon can headbutt with Koninaran and as a KiAttack of sorts shoots heads with the Tondeker. Sukapokon also has access to Tondeker, but trades in Koninaran for [[RapidFireFisticuffs Nonsense]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Ermin and Warner reprogram Sukapon "back into his original funny self", whereupon he proceeds to become "the best comedian in the world!"