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Skull & Crossbones is an early pirate-themed brawler from Atari. In addition to its fairly unique setting, it features deliberate fencing combat where blocking is a necessity. It also has environment-based special events such as grabbing a rope and swinging across a chasm as well as storming enemy pirate ships to raid their booty.
This and Guardians of the 'Hood are the only brawlers put out by Atari. For more pirate-themed beat'em up action, check out Pirates of Darkwater on the SNES.
Skull & Crossbones is pretty wack. It tries to be deep with its fencing-based gameplay, but really the combat is just incredibly stilted, slow-paced, and sloppy. It has some cool pirate moments, but most of these boil down to just standing in a spot to trigger an animation. The graphics are hard to look at and the music is grating.
