Damn, Stephen Hawking Knows How to Throw Down: It’s ‘Science Kombat’

  Fighting games have a long and storied history. Not one that we’re going to go into now, natch; nobody comes to Egotastic! for a nerdly history lesson. Let’s just say that the iconic likes of Street Fighter, Tekken, Mortal Kombat and such have been doing the rounds for decades now. 

In that time, a lot of genre trademarks have been established. Where would fighters be without health bars, acrobatically impossible special moves, supers accompanied by an epilepsy-tastic light show of special effects, all of that good stuff? Nowhere, that’s where. They're as fundamental as the powerful, slow male characters/fast and with ninja-ish agility female characters cliché (big ol’ jiggling jugs supplied as standard).

Sometimes, though, you just want to shake things up. To say balls to all of that, and enjoy watching Isaac Newton and Marie Curie fight to the death in a fancy-ass library somewhere. Thanks to one crazy indie developer, that dream –and it’s one we all totally share, don’t deny it—is now a reality. Gentlemen, meet Science Kombat.

This piss-takey browser game comes to us from Brazilian site Superinteressante, a 2D fighter inspired by the classics of old. As one of eight science dudes/dudettes (in case you’re curious, the full roster is Stephen Hawking, Pythagoras, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein) you whup all the other smartasses’ asses across a series of pretty neat environments.

It’s worth a look if just for the appropriate character-specific special moves. Of which, for the record, Marie Curie’s ‘radiation ball’ hadouken is clearly the best. Give it a go here.