I think its pretty obscure, but does anybody remember an arcade that  was:

• 4 players co-op, Gauntlet style but larger, more detailed characters
• Life continuously counts down (insert credit for more life)
  
• One of the weapons was a whip (I think they were all melee weapons?)
  
• early 1990s
• had big mud (boss?) monsters, and if you hit them mud flys off and hits the ground?
• an expedition type, jungle-like setting  (Main guy wore a Indiana Jones style hat?)
  

I remember this game, and it had a girl with a sword and a guy with a bow staff with green pants. You were timed and had to locate keys, then cross bridges that were falling apart. The mud boss would come up out of the jungle and turn red when you hit it. I have been wondering about this game for ever. I wish I knew the name, good explanation dude.

Dark Adventure in North America. Devil world in Japan.