Fighting Staves

Tools theme

A fighting stick, usually hardwood, from slightly shorter than its wielder to ⅓% taller. Usable offensively, defensively, lethal, or less-than-lethal.

190

games

platforms

Alternate names: Fighting Staffs, quarterstaffs, quarterstaves, 棍, gùn, 棒, bō, 半棒, hanbō, 六尺棒, rokushakubō, bâton, Taiaha

The Summoning

DOS 1992

Gothic 3

WIN 2006-10-13

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

ARCD 1991

Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear

WIN 2016-03-31

WIN 2000-06-29

PS1 1997-11-17

ARCD 1985

PS3 2011-08

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack

NDS 2009-11-10

Dungeon Dashers

WIN 2013

Darkened Skye

WIN 2002-11-16

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

IIE 1985

Unlike the other staves, quarterstaff has a very different fighting style which is rarely seen in fiction and the weapon itself is much thicker and shorter than the others.

Parent groups

Archaic weapons, Pole weapons

Games by year

The first Fighting Staves video game was released in 1985.

Konami, Ubisoft and Image Works published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		35
Linux		28
MS-DOS		11
NES		7
C64		6
PS2		6
Amiga		6
GameCube		5
Mac OS X		5
GBA		4
PS		4
Xbox		4
Nintendo DS		4
Atari ST		4
X360		4
Amstrad CPC		4
Arcade		3
SNES		3
Mega Drive		3
PS4		3
Apple II E		3
Mac OS Classic		2
Apple IIGS		2
GB		2
PS3		2
N64		2
ZX Spectrum		2
Pandora		2
Wii		2
Xbox One		2

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