The greatest scientific minds beat each other's brains out in Science Kombat - CNET

Imagine what would happen if the greatest analytical minds in the history of humankind came back to the land of the living.

If you have a more scientific leaning, you might hope they could use their powers of logic and innovation to solve some of the world's biggest problems.

If you're a gamer, you might secretly wish that they would immediately start fighting each other in hand-to-hand combat.

Well, if you're in the latter camp, you're in luck. The Brazilian science and culture magazine Superinteressante has released an old-school fighting game you can play on your web browser called Science Kombat that pits some of history's greatest scientific minds against each other in a one-on-one fighting touament.

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The game features eight science-based brawlers, including Pythagoras, Tesla, Turing, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Sir Issac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Marie Curie. Each has a basic punch and kick move but there are also special moves that each combatant can execute as well. If you're a regular player of any of the Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter games, you should be able to figure them out pretty quick. The rest can just use the tried and true technique of button mashing.