The F.B.I. wrote:I never really clicked with Golden Axe myself. Enjoyed it certainly, but never thought it was anything particularly special.
As is often the case with these things, it had a very short period of relevance, post Double Dragon. A brief window of glory in the arcade. A lot of shonky home computer conversions, a very brief window of relative awesomeness on the Master System, and then it was pretty much eclipsed by first Final Fight on SNES and then it's slightly expanded Megadrive port, was eclipsed by the Streets of Rage series, to join Altered Beast in the realms of the fondly remembered, if unspectacular early Megadrive System16 ports.
I do
really love that soundtrack, though.