Final Fight CD
Developer: A-Wave Publisher: Sega Release: 03/25/93 Genre: Beat em up I know I was not the only one disappointed by the SNES release of Final Fight. As one of the biggest arcade games of all time many were...
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Mighty Final Fight
The end of every console’s life is always bittersweet. In most cases some of the best games in a system’s library are released in its twilight years. On the other hand shovelware and low budget crap also come in droves....
Final Fight 2
Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release: 08/15/93 Genre: Beat em up Final Fight for the SNES disappointed many, not once but twice. While the game sold well the public outcry could not be denied. As a mea culpa Capcom created...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III – the Manhattan Project
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III – the Manhattan Project is often forgotten among the games in the series. It’s easy to see why; as a 1992 release most of the industry and gamer’s attention was squarely on the SNES. It...
Double Dragon III – the Sacred Stones
Developer: Technos Publisher: Acclaim Release: 01/91 Genre: Beat em up In spite of their flaws I genuinely like the Double Dragon games. I am sure like most it was my introduction to the beat em up genre and would...
Bad Dudes
Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Release: 07/90 Genre: Beat em up Part of what I enjoy the most about writing this blog is revisiting games that I remember fondly. For the most part the games that were great...
Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan
Developer: Never Ending Soft Team Publisher: King Tec Information Genre: 1999 Genre: Beat em up While Sega officially dropped support of the Genesis around 1996-97 in Taiwan and Korea a number of unlicensed games continued being released....
Cyber Cross
Developer: ITL Co. Publisher: Face Release: 06/23/89 Genre: Action The Turbo Grafx-16 library was woefully inadequate in many genres. It had its share of platformers and my god did It have shooters. But side scrolling beat ‘em...
Altered Beast
Developer: Team Shinobi Publisher: Sega Release: 08/14/89 Genre: Beat em up Once upon a time new video game systems came with two controllers and a game. That is a pretty foreign concept to the younger gamers out there...
Zombie Revenge
Developer: Sega AM1 Publisher: Sega Release: 01/25/00 Genre: Beat em up The 16-bit era was a gold mine for quality beat em ups. From arcade greats like Final Fight to home console exclusives such as Streets of Rage,...