Tattoo Assassins

Tattoo Assassins
Developers	Data East Pinball
Publishers	Data East
Systems	Arcade 1994 (Unreleased)
Online Play	Fightcade 2 (Rollback)

Tattoo Assassins (or Tattass) is an unreleased 1994 arcade fighting game made by Data East Pinball. It uses digitized graphics similarly to a number of other fighting games of this time period (primarily the classic Mortal Kombat games).

Although unreleased, a few prototypes were test-marketed, and have since had their ROM files dumped making the game fully playable via emulation, alongside having rollback-based online play via Fightcade 2.

Story

"And it came to pass that Mullah Abba, spiritual leader of the Order of Colors, discovered the ancient secret of the mystic Ink of Ghize...

The Ink of Ghize is an amorphous fluid organism which can form into real objects for brief moments when applied to human bodies as tattoos.

However, the ink is only compatible with those of a certain unusual genetic make-up, those known as Hosts. The ink can cause bizarre mutations in those who prove unsuitable...

Among the Color Guard, only Koldan was a suitable host.

Thus believing himself superior to all mankind, Koldan stole the secret of the ink. His goal is to create an army of mutants and enslave the human race.

Mullah Abba commanded the nine remaining color guards to find new hosts for the Ink of Ghize, one whom might be powerful enough to defeat Koldan.

Nine Hosts were found. Each received magnificent chest and arm tattoos, plus a magical morph tattoo on their palm.

THE TATTOO ASSASSINS!

Yet Koldan's power had grown stronger. His consciousness possessed the assassins. He would use them to find the remaining ink for himself!

But all was not lost, for Mullah Abba discovered the strange power of a mysterious tattooed woman, Lyla Blue...

By using Lyla as a channel, Mullah Abba has the power to allow you to possess any one assassin. CHOOSE!

Now, you must defeat each of the other assassins. Use your tattoos as weapons. Earn new tattoos. Destroy the mutants. Find Koldan and defeat him - If you can!"

Gameplay

Gamplay-wise, Tattoo Assassins could be most likened to Mortal Kombat II, sharing a large amount of gameplay mechanics and feel with it. It has a relatively loose juggle-focussed combo system, and stays away from link-based combos (not to say that they don't exist, they're just few and far between).

Wiki Roadmap

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