Karnov
Karnov puts the bulging muscled, fire-breathing, ex-circus strongman
hero on a quest to search for treasures. However, between him and the
treasures are several horrendous monsters, including sword wielding
monks, jinns, foot hopping giant fishes and ostrich-riding skeleton
warriors.
Karnov later became Data East's mascot, and was reintroduced in many other Data East games, including Bad Dudes in which he played the boss of the first level. Karnov would later appear in 1994 in another one of his own games for the Neo-Geo hardware called Karnov's Revenge. This game, also known as Fighter's History Dynamite, is not a sequel to the original Karnov, but to Fighter's History, a competitive one-on-one fighter in which Karnov was the end boss.
Karnov, although popularly illustrated as an Eastern European or a Slav, is actually from the Far East of the former Soviet Union as shown on the original arcade flyer and again in Karnov's Revenge. His full name is Jinborov Karnovski. (Wikipedia)
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