The Death and Return of Superman

The Death and Return of Superman

Developer: Blizzard    Publisher: Sunsoft    Release: 08/94    Genre: Beat em up The Death of Superman was a one two punch of events alongside Knightfall that rocketed DC Comics to the top of the sales charts in the early 90s. This was...
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G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra

G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra

Developer: Maple Powered Games   Publisher: Indie.io    Release: 09/26/24    Genre: Beat em up             Also on: Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series The side scrolling beat em up went through a long period of hibernation. The once corne...
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Crisis Beat

Crisis Beat

Developer: Soft Machine    Publisher: Virgin    Release: 08/18/00   Genre: Beat em up The original PlayStation has games for everyone in every genre. You like fighting games? Well god damn son there is an embarrassment of riches. Sports games?...
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Streets of Rage 3

Streets of Rage 3

Developer: Ancient    Publisher: Sega    Release:    Genre: Beat ’em up Streets of Rage 2 is one of the greatest beat em ups of all time. It tops the list of greatest games in the genre regularly and is one of the...
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Fighting Force 64

Fighting Force 64

Developer: Core Design    Publisher: Crave    Release: 04/30/99   Genre: Beat em up In the late 90s Eidos were the “it” publisher. While they had their successes Tomb Raider raised their stock significantly, figuratively and literally. This newfound ...
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Annet Futatabi

Annet Futatabi

Developer: Wolf Team   Publisher: Wolf Team    Release: 03/30/93   Genre: Beat em up Annet Futatabi is a game I longed for after seeing it in a random issue of EGM. The idea of two separate video game characters starring...
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Iron Commando

Iron Commando

Developer: Arcade Zone   Publisher: Poppo   Release: 02/10/95   Genre: Beat em up I have mentioned that the beat em up genre was over saturated in the early 90s. Trust me it is true. But despite the glut of...
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Captain America & the Avengers SNES

Captain America & the Avengers SNES

Developer: Realtime Associates   Publisher: Mindscape   Release: 1993   Genre: Beat em up Let’s be completely honest for a moment: Captain America & the Avengers was an average at best arcade game. For its time it was one of...
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Ane-San

Ane-San

Developer: NEC Avenue    Publisher: NEC Avenue   Release: 02/24/95   Genre: Action Delinquents and beat ‘em ups go together like peanut butter and jelly. In Japan it is the go to when you want to pound some faces in...
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Golden Axe III

Golden Axe III

Developer: Sega    Publisher: Sega    Release: 06/25/93   Genre: Action My love of Golden Axe as a series is an enigma. If we are being honest more than half the titles in the series are mediocre. Yet I still like the...
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