Golden-Axe-like Bone Giant boss, Connan-like swordsman, Whip wielder-lady [Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III]

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Golden-Axe-like Bone Giant boss, Connan-like swordsman, Whip wielder-lady [Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III]

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After helping me find the game Dark secrets of Africa - I return with yet another title search!

This was an old sidescroller game, and it does indeed look close (graphics-wise) to Golden Axe 2 or Golden Axe the revenge of death.

I played it in an arcade mall of some sort, with a slot machine - this was somewhere in 1996-ish, thou probably the game machine was older than that.

You could chose from 3 characters: I remember clearly that you had muscular guy (just boots and pants I guess) with a sword or a lady-girl with a whip.
Girl was also dressed like the girl in golden axe 2 - and yes I think her clothes were... red colored?

I can't recall enemies exactly, but I think they were skeletons? And the boss for that (first) level was a skeleton Dragon of some sort - never got past him.

Vaguely I remember maybe lighting effects? I think this was a "super" ability of the whip lady? ... and that the level was pretty dark setting, like some sort of dark world/open dungeon? of some sort.

EDIT: you could walk up and down, left and right, so it wasn't just a back-forward-jump limitation (just like golden axe 2 players navigates)

Is it normal for slot machine games to not be published on home-game-consoles? and be exclusive only for arcades?
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Sidescroller (Golden-Axe-like) Bone/Skeleton Dragon boss, Protagonist: Connan-like sword-weilder, Whip wealing lady

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If it helps I remember clearly that this arcade gaming hub also had this arcade machine:

https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_deta ... me_id=9717

Maybe it could help in placing the game in time...
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Sidescroller (Golden-Axe-like) Bone/Skeleton Dragon boss, Protagonist: Connan-like sword-weilder, Whip wealing lady

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Yeah... I think I found it - but believe me, it was a super lucky find.
I was thinking of this years on and off and I couldn't just google keywords.

I think this was it - the level of details match it, the characters match it, and the bone dragon was more of a 2-head-giant-skeleton.... again, memory corruption :))

Thou I do remember it a bit different to be honest - anyone has knowledge of something similar graphics/gameplay wise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X11yiwgrnfU

I'm about close to 90% this was it thou.

EDIT: make that rather close to 99% :P seeing the gold piles enemies drop and the ship level, it clearly is what I played back then.
It's funny how I tried to describe the environment: open spaced but dark as a dungeon :))

EDIT 2: Strangely enough, my memories of the quality/esthetics, match the actual game.
It's the first time I re-find something old and DON'T say "eh, it looked better back then when I played it" - I'm impressed!
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Sidescroller (Golden-Axe-like) Bone/Skeleton Dragon boss, Protagonist: Connan-like sword-wielder, Whip wielder-lady

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Good that you found it; there is a Mobygames group for the series: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/rastan-series

The first two was also released on other platforms, and I guess it depends on how popular it was, if it pays off to port a game to other platforms.
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Sidescroller (Golden-Axe-like) Bone Dragon boss, Protagonist: Connan-like sword-wielder, Whip wielder-lady [Solved]

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Admins are free to cut down from the guess-title and tag it with its name: Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III

I've cut down the text tile to this Golden-Axe-like Bone Giant boss, Connan-like swordsman, Whip wielder-lady [Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III] so it can fit. Can't seem to edit the title myself since some time has past since posting.

Again thank you for your help!
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Golden-Axe-like Bone Giant boss, Connan-like swordsman, Whip wielder-lady [Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III]

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Done, thanks for being mindful of details, appreciated :)
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