• Practice, practice, practice! Work on your jump and attack skills to get your timing perfect. Mastering the attack and all its variations is the best way to win
• Experiment with Jump and Attack to discover all the special moves. You’ll be surprised at how many maneuvers you can do, including kicking, thrusting with the handle of your weapon and tossing your opponent overhead in a body twirl.
• Ride a Bizarrian whenever you can. Let the monster take the hits while keeping the enemy’s weapon swipes away from you.
• Learn the shortcomings of each enemy. Then concentrate on defeating them by attacking their vulnerable spots.
• Assess each situation to decide whether to retreat to a better position or close in for the attack.
• Learn to jump and twirl to get behind an attacker.
• Always face your enemy. Stabs in the back are lethal!.
• Watch your Hit Meter and Life Counter. If you’re getting short on lives, it might be a good idea to retreat instead of attack.
• Use your Magic Pots wisely. It may be a while before you get more. Stay on guard - some enemies are strong enough to revive after a Magic attack.
• Fighting on a cliff, near the sea or on a terrace is very tricky. Instead of tumbling off, lure enemies towards the edge and let them be the ones to fall. You can even give them a little push.
• Some platforms can only be scaled from a secret spot - which you have to find.
• In two-player games, don’t attack your partner - you can hurt each other.

Golden Axe first appeared in arcades in 1989, and was later ported to the SEGA Mega Drive console. Note that the Japanese lettering that appears during the opening screen reads “Sempu” and literally means “Battle Axe”, the basis of the international title.