Muscle Champion: Battle of Muscle Island

Have fun together, or work hard alone. Aim to be the champion of Muscle Island.

JP release: 21st November 2002
EU release: N/A
NA release: N/A
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
NGC Magazine Score: N/A
Original Name: Muscle Champion: Kinnikutō Kessen
Mods Used: Widescreen Hack

Muscle Champion is based on a Japanese sports reality show called Sasuke, which has had international versions under the name Ninja Warrior. Competitors have to complete a challenging obstacle course or end up falling into water. While the obstacle course does exist in Muscle Champion, I could not work out how to actually get to it from the menus, so I could only try out the minigames. It’s possible that you have to perform well enough in these to compete.

You can compete globally or against others. In “Edit Gym”, you can create and train your own character, and can then complete minigames on your own in order to improve your stats. However, the targets you need for this are extremely high and I managed to get from the default average stats to the lowest stats possible.

The minigames are simple enough to be understandable, but also fairly bland. The best one is a 2v2 minigame where one person in each team has to aim themselves in a cannon while the other then has to run to catch you after you’ve been fired, trying to get the longest distance fired and then caught. Nothing else stood out to me, and it didn’t take long for minigames to start repeating.

Fine

I think it’s probably not good for your mental health to fight alone at first lol. If you keep losing and practice in single-player mode, you’ll steadily start winning. Hard work never fails! It was a good silly game (and I mean that as a compliment)!!
Amazon JP Customer (Translated)

Remake or remaster?

Not for this.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to get Muscle Champion: Battle of Muscle Island.