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THE UNCONVERTED

FLASHGAL

DEVELOPER: SEGA YEAR: 1985 GENRE: BEAT-’EM-UP

■ For reasons never adequately explored, she likes to spend her days beating up the henchmen of a rather rotund bald bloke, who definitely isn’t the Kingpin, in an autoscrolling brawler that takes a lot of its inspiration from Kung Fu Master. Sega’s copyright-friendly superhero is as short on powers as she is on backstory – although she can jump quite high, she gets rid of enemies with standard punches and kicks. Flashgal can also get a gun as a power-up, but this hardly counts as a superpower either,

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