Vigilante is a 1988 beat 'em up developed and published by Irem in Japan and Europe and published by Data East in North America. It is a spiritual sequel to Irem's Kung-Fu Master.
Set in downtown New York City, the game's plot involves a lone, professional martial artist who becomes a vigilante to fight an evil gang called the Skinheads, ruled by a man known as the Giant Devil, in order to protect his "turf" and save a female hostage named Madonna, who was kidnapped by them.
Players control the titular character using punches and kicks to defeat the Skinheads in a 2D platform manner, while sometimes picking up and using nunchaku against them. If players get hurt while holding nunchaku, they become unarmed. There are five stages in order of appearance: a street, a junkyard, the Brooklyn Bridge, a back street scene and on top of a building that is under construction. Skinheads with Mohawk or spiked hairdo attack the vigilante with knives, chains, motorbikes, guns and other kinds of weapons. They will also choke him if he lets them get too close.
Vigilante is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
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