Arcade beat ’em ups from the past – The King of Dragons
Almost two years after Final Fight’s debut in 1989, Capcom released another beat ’em up in 1991 giving players a break from smashing phone booths and cleaning up urban blight. […]
Almost two years after Final Fight’s debut in 1989, Capcom released another beat ’em up in 1991 giving players a break from smashing phone booths and cleaning up urban blight. […]
One of the best beat ’em ups in the arcade came out in 1993. It had punks, thieves, assassins, and a criminal mastermind rolled into a Marvel-licensed smorgasbord of fisticuffs […]
Technos’ Renegade in 1986 could be a tough game to warm up to in the arcade. In my case, I didn’t particularly like my experience with it as much as […]
It’s hard to think of a bad game having any kind of influence on future titles in a genre, but Technos’ Renegade did just that. I didn’t like this game […]
Fighting urban blight was a popular theme among beat ’em ups like Capcom’s Final Fight, Konami’s Vendetta, and Technos’ Double Dragon. SNK also stepped into the asphalt arcade ring in […]
If Arnie from the 80s or Hulk Hogan in his heyday starred in a movie featuring them as an ass-kicking mayor, Final Fight could have been the greatest tie-in ever. […]
This arcade classic from Konami released in 1982 combined the thrills of treasure hunting and survival into a horizontal, side scrolling action game. It was apparently supposed to be called […]