Best of Best [Arcade] - all characters playthrough

This is a play-through using all 8 characters in the Arcade game Best of Best. Read on below for more information...

All 8 characters are regular playables in the game, there are no bosses or hidden/secret characters in it.

Best of Best has a rather "unique" feature where if you play though a single-player game, you can actually get to choose your character again each time you defeat an opponent. This is how I am able to complete the play-through using all of the characters.

The characters are used in the following order for each match:

Shalin, Tom, Tango, Alli, Scott, Sasaki, Abdul, Hawk.

Here are overviews of the characters:

===== SHALIN =====
Female fighter from China who looks like a belly dancer. The spiked anklet on one of her ankles could be a reference to Chun-Li from Street Fighter. She has the largest special moves list in the game, with such moves including swirling projectiles, a flaming hair strike and a spinning hair strike. Her portrait image is the only one in the game that looks like a "real person" and not cartoony like the others.

===== TOM =====
Caucasian blonde fighter and a rip-off of Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury 2. He has almost the same stance and mostly the same basics, and even has a Power Wave special move, which can also emit different projectiles if you use a different strength P to do it. Interestingly, his stage background is of a period scene in China.

===== TANGO =====
Punk from the USA, judging from his stage background. Can kick like a martial artist, and has a strange special move where he dives around following a beam pattern. Some of his special moves seem unfitting of such a character. Has a SF2 Ryu-style winning pose, and is slightly reminiscent of Jack from Streets Of Rage 2.

===== ALLI =====
Alli is your middle-eastern fighter, complete with stereotypical attire, along with a pair of middle-eastern knives/swords. His special moves include being able to change size, Sonic Boom projectiles and a Yoga Flame.

===== SCOTT =====
Military fighter based on the Rambo stereotype. Uses his ammo belt for long range strikes for some of his special moves, and also has a rather odd-looking inverted charging double-kick. His stage background is probably inspired by Guile's one in SF2.

===== SASAKI =====
Japanese samurai fighter armed with a dagger in one hand and sword on his back. Has a flame drop special move that rains on the opponent, as a well as a fireball in which he projects with the sword that is able to strike the opponent on start-up if they're close.

===== ABDUL =====
Looks to be Turkish fighter. Has a fireball move that bounces, a ground rolling strike, as well as a stretching long kick.

===== HAWK =====
American wrestler fighter from New York City, based on Hulk Hogan. Has a fireball that descends downwards, a charging roll , and a fast sliding charge move that leads to a back flip. I don't think he has any grapple moves which is uncommon for a wrestler.

===== About Best of Best =====
Best of Best is what you might call a "loose" fighting game... the gameplay is average and feels all over the place, and the animations and style are somewhat inconsistent. Even though the characters are all unique to each other, some of them share a set of universal special moves, such as the diving strike, body drop and rapid striking moves. To the game's credit however, it does feature a 6-button basic move system.