He then gathered his findings and published them in the form of a short, unlisted YouTube video, showcasing one of the characters, Big Rogen, a giant, obese clown with mechanical claws, a machinegun and a chainsaw. the dub director of the Battle High series, first voice actor for the immortal Alperen in the mobile prequel to Dual Souls, and on-and-off writer for Fightabase (yes, he did all of this and even more) actually bought the device and had it shipped to the US.įirst thing he did, was booting up the microscopic “console” - the screen is literally smaller than an Xbox pad - and try out Rupture Void.
Impulse buying and shipping to the USĮxcept a certain Steven W. In case this listing is lost to time, here’s a screenshot of the Amazon Laptop Arcade page, featuring key art of Red Sheep from Rupture Void and a screenshot from the game in the background. Everything could have ended like this, in a simple bout of curiosity. So, we have a Chinese arcade machine, with two possibly original, unknown fighting games with no information available, an elusive developer and an even more elusive publisher.
Early footage of it showed many similarities with Street Fighter IV, including ripping the same voice announcer clips and having animations suspiciously similar to Sakura’s - and, oh, boy, this isn’t even scratching the tip of the iceberg. The second fighting game, Fighting Master Ultimate, didn’t receive the same care, like at all. It really seemed that the developers 游侠江湖 (Youxia Jianghu, here’s a link to their website) made a bona fide effort to create a new, original IP with several original characters just for this wretched 100-games-in-one machine, only not to advertise it in any meaningful way in the Western part of the Internet. Still, no additional info could be found around, especially concerning the gameplay, and using Google reverse image search on the character portraits in the hope of finding something made more harm than good. Until, two days later, thanks to some of their contacts, the same Twitter user managed to find out the name of the developer and the original Chinese name of Rupture Void. Both games were strongly advertised on the promotional material and took up the bulk of the pictures in the online stores, on top of being featured as decals on the machine itself.ĭespite searching the internet for this game, nobody seemed to have any real information on it. The first fighting game was called Rupture Void, had even a solid, flashy trailer, and seemed to share characters with the beat’em up, Fury Fight.
Or is it a retitle of some existing chinese android game perhaps? /yBeIDnDTDn did they develop this whole ass pretty cool looking original fighting game just for this console? There's a video of one, "rupture void", literally no info available under that title at all.
The tweet contained information about the so-called “Laptop Arcade Player”, an unassuming, anonymous 100-games-in-one Chinese portable arcade machine with nothing out of the ordinary… except the fact that it featured one beat’em up and two fighting games nobody seemed to know anything about. A Twitter user who goes by the handle of posted a tweet about a rather peculiar portable arcade console he had found on Ali Express. It started on the bird appĮverything began at the tail end of October. All high profiles events, worth of praise and interest, but nothing compared to what an unaware Twitter user would unearth. November has been a weird month, this year, with lots of fighting game related news - Street Fighter V ending on a high note, Bandai Namco removing Denuvo from Tekken 7, Project L finally showing some footage out of the blue, and DNF Duels unexpectedly coming back from the phantom zone. Buckle up your belt and join GuileWinQuote, Ninjinister, MrMKL, and me in this dive into the deep unknown of this not-at-all-cheap, obnoxious, obscure machine and the amazing discoveries that were made in the process! Breaking news Outside of my regular column, I have decided to spend one evening writing about one of the most cursed fighting game discoveries of 2021 - the Laptop Arcade Player, a portable arcade machine sold on Amazon and Ali Express for 150USD and advertised as having 100+ games… among which, what seemed to be two completely original, unknown, fighting games – Rupture Void and Fighting Master Ultimate.