Retroware Debuts Toxic Crusaders at PAX East With Announcement Trailer

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ANNOUNCING our newest title TOXIC CRUSADERS!! The Toxic Crusaders are back for an all-new, all-action beat 'em up for one to four local co-op players!
The Toxic Crusaders (hottest heroes of 1991) have returned for a radical, radioactive romp for a new era, featuring awesome action, crushing combos, and more toxic waste than you'll know what to do with! Developer and publisher Retroware has teamed up with Troma Entertainment to bring the Toxic Crusaders back, for an all-new, all-action beat 'em up for one to four players! Grab your mop, tutu, and attitude, and get ready to clean up the mean streets of Tromaville, one radioactive goon at a time!

Battle across seven disgusting levels rendered in vibrant pixel art as you defend Tromaville from hordes of Radiation Rangers, mutated thugs and zombie chickens. The odds might be stacked against you but with awesome powers, a winning personality, and up to four-players on your side, the Smogulan Empire's days are numbered! Choose from seven playable characters, including Toxie, No-Zone, Junkyard, Major Disaster, and Headbanger - plus, for the first time, play as Toxie's musically "gifted" girlfriend Yvonne, and the mother of all mothers, Mrs. Junko, Toxie's mom!



Take a deep breath and dive deep into an action-packed, pun-filled adventure that drags you kicking and screaming through the wonderful world of Troma Films! Enjoy cameos from gore-filled classics such as Class of Nuke 'Em High, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, and Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. - reimagined in the Saturday morning cartoon style that made this franchise so unforgettable!

When the evil Dr. Killemoff attacks, only one team of hideously deformed creatures of superhuman size and strength stands between him and his plans for global pollution: the Toxic Crusaders, Earth's last, greatest and ugliest hope for survival!



Platforms: PC/Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
Release Date: Late 2023
Developed and Published by Retroware
https://retroware.com/
https://twitter.com/retroware

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[oldwalltree]

I'm glad my childhood isn't completely dead, i love this!

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Looks promising.

 

[dragontamer5788]

I'm glad my childhood isn't completely dead, i love this!

There's no alliteration, no "adjective stuffing", no nothing in this title. I'm pretty disappointed!

* "Biker Mice from Mars".
* "Street Sharks"
* "Wild West C.O.W-Boys of Moo Mesa"

And one obscure show about PreAdult Deformed Shinobi Reptiles.

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For a proper childhood experience, this needs to be named "Cruising Crusaders of Cantaloupe", or... something like that.

Title stuffing aside, I think the trailer was pretty well done

 

[Gmr_Chick]

As a kid who grew up playing stuff like this on consoles waaaay back when, this looks like a lot of fun and is oddly refreshing to see in these days of "every game has to be a first-person shooter/online multiplayer toxic shitfest".

 

[dragontamer5788]

As a kid who grew up playing stuff like this on consoles waaaay back when, this looks like a lot of fun and is oddly refreshing to see in these days of "every game has to be a first-person shooter/online multiplayer toxic shitfest".

Have you played River City Girls?

Its officially part of the same series as River City Ransom (the Japanese never stopped making those games, they just stopped translating them to English). River City Girls (and the upcoming River City Girls 2) continues the beat-em-up tradition with official storyline links to that old series.

Other "retro" games include Cuphead, TMNT Shredder's revenge, Jamestown.

 

[natr0n]

As a kid who grew up playing stuff like this on consoles waaaay back when, this looks like a lot of fun and is oddly refreshing to see in these days of "every game has to be a first-person shooter/online multiplayer toxic shitfest".

GG

 

[Ferrum Master]

I had to do checkdisk on my memory cells. I've actually played the original, I could not get past the sewers...