Are there any retro sidescrollers where just touching an enemy doesn't harm you? I want to play one where they actively need to be shooting or throwing a punch for you to take damage.
Not counting fighting games, I know fighting games do this already. Also not counting Mario games, where jumping on top of them doesn't hurt you. I mean running up to an enemy side-by-side to them. So pic not related
DID YOU KNOW
Shinobi
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Vice: Project Doom
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Rolling thunder series.
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Trip World on gameboy?
Doki doki picnic
Takeshi no Chousenjo / Takeshi's Challenge
It's a semi-obscure Famicom kosuge featuring Takeshi Kitano. Enemies don't harm you upon touch but they are quick to punch you. You can also attack/ kill innocent NPCs
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The Adventures of Bayou Billy.
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In Metal Slug you can touch almost all enemies (excluding a few things like tanks in movement) without dying, enemies do have close range attacks, which you can dodge if timed right.
Phantom Fighter
River City Ransom
shake shake
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DID YOU KNOW THAT DOKI DOKI PICNIC IS ACHSHULLY SUPER MARIO PICNIC 2?
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Beat em up games (streets of rage, double dragon, etc)
All Beat 'em Up Games
And some war games are using both guns and knives.
Some Wario games.
Captcha: MASTER spinelli
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THAT SUPER MARIO BROS 2 IS ACTUALLY A JAPANESE GAME CALLED HARRY POTTER AND THE FUCKING WIZARD
YEAH!
WHAT THE HELL?
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Actually that's a very sloppy phonetic transcription of the original title (ドキドキパニック). A more faithful transliteration would beDorky DorkyDickpic