Black Games Archive

Context, Culture, and Representation


Treachery in Beatdown City

Developer: NuChallenger
Publisher: NuChallenger
Release Year: 2020
Platform: Switch/Win
Genre: Action, Fighter
Taxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters, Black Cultural traditions, politics/ ideology/ history; Narrative themes; fandom/reception/community; Intersectionality; mechanics

In Beatdown City, after President Blake Obama is kidnapped by ninja terrorists and the police force is shut down, now-suspended police chief Antonio Santiago enlists the aid of his daughter Lisa and her two friends to set out to discover the truth and discover the root of the trouble.

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