Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery or so they say. But what about an imitation of an imitation? There’s no question that Final Fight more or less established the modern take beat em up genre with everyone keen to cash in on its success. Sega’s Streets of Rage was one of the better takes […]Riot Zone
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery or so they say. But what about an imitation of an imitation? There’s no question that Final Fight more or less established the modern take beat em up genre with everyone keen to cash in on its success. Sega’s Streets of Rage was one of the better takes […]
As much as gamers loved Final Fight in the arcade we all somehow knew it wasn’t possible to stuff into an NES cartridge. I was far from being aware of any technical details but accepted it as fact. Maybe it was seeing all of the compromises Konami made with the TMNT arcade game, despite it […]
After the disappointment of Final Fight’s SNES release it seemed as though gamers would have to stick to pumping an arcade unit with quarters if they wanted an unfettered experience. The SNES version was a highly anticipated release and even in spite of its flaws most of us were able to overlook it because the […]
By now I suppose everyone is familiar with Captain Commando through his cameo appearances in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. But I doubt many are familiar with his original arcade and console debut. Captain Commando’s appearances have been so sparse he might as well have been a new character by 1999. So in the face […]
In the mass exodus to 3d one genre that was oddly left behind was the side scrolling beat em up. Once as prolific as the shmup outside of a few notable exceptions such as Guardian Heroes and Fighting Force no one seemed interested in exploring its conventions outside of Sega. As they had done previously […]
It’s an understatement to say that Capcom disappointed everyone with the SNES port of Final Fight. The missing 2 player coop, levels, and character smacked of a rushed product. And then they did it all over again with Final Fight Guy, which instead of adding him to the game removed Cody in his place. The […]
It’s not a stretch to say that Final Fight did to the arcade beat em up what Street Fighter 2 did for fighting games. It was electrifying. There had been plenty of exemplary games prior to it but none that exhibited the level of production values and polish of Capcom’s classic. So when it was […]
Well what do we have here? The Rival Turf trilogy of games overall were pretty decent. While they didn’t reinvent the genre they still provided awesome beat em up action in the same vein as Final Fight or Streets of Rage. The first in the series, however, is not a good game. I mean […]
