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BONANZA BROS

For all their supposed stealth credentials, the Bonanza Bros have a dubious track record of keeping a low profile since their original arcade heist. Take a glance at their prolific police record and you’ll find evidence of Robo and Mobo being present at the scenes of conversions and spin-offs across a litany of consoles and home computers. Those pesky yellow thieves just keep getting away with it.

Labelling the brothers as robbers is perhaps a little unfair though, as their criminal status is somewhat up for debate. The introduction screens of the arcade game depict a mystery client recruiting the pair for a mission to help with “cleaning up Badville once and for all” by gathering evidence from “crooked joints that are run

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