The General's Son (장군의 아들) is a 1-on-1 fighting game developed by Gartist Team and released at the end of 1992 by Daou Infosys based on the Korean gangster movie of the same name.
US company Innovation Technology had planned a release in the territory under the name Street Hero alongside other titles from Daou's catalog like Buzz & Waldog, The Dinosaur Dooley or Cave Dude. The US prototype version was dumped in 2024.
Overview[]
Like many fighting games from that time, the game takes strong inspiration from Street Fighter II. The controls are very simple; you can perform a special move by holding down A and B for a second.
Trivia[]
- Most of the developers were actually involved in other in-house Daou titles like Dooly Bravo Land and the Master System titles. Gartist is likely just the actual group name.
- General's Son is the last game developed in-house by Daou. They released exclusively Open Corp. titles after this one.
- Daou released Sachen's Super Pang with the same ID as General's Son in mid 1992. In other words, there are two Daou games that share the DIF-002 id.
- The US prototype is mostly identical to the Korean version:
- The US prototype version gives you an infinite lives, presumably for the purpose of testing and review.
- Only the title screen, ending screen and characters' names on the VS screen, now displayed as acronyms, were adapted in the localized prototype. End credits remain in Hangul.
Gallery[]
Cartridge.
Box & Alternate cover.
The General's Son ad from Game Champ January 1993 issue. Photo courtesy of Tarzan.
Cover
Manual
The title screen of the U.S. prototype version of the game "Street Hero".
The advertisement featuring both localized version of Koko Adventure and Janggun ui Adeul. The earliest prototype was announced as "Street Battle" in the magazine, until they settled on with the name "Street Hero" for the unreleased prototype.