Admit it, beat em up games sucked but we simply made the best of what we had.

[Doctor Go-Go]

Every Beat em up game sucked, but that's what we had. That or light gun games. I never want play a fighting game ever again. Except for streets of rage. I always enjoyed randomly punching mys sister as Blaze in the back of her head. Too bad I couldn't use the bazooka on her.

[Vince ✟]

Fist if The North Star

[Doctor Go-Go]

Why did we ever consider that junk to be realistic? Go about the slums and wherever else beating 1-00-300 guys to death. Out of all of them ONLY one had a firearm yet this takes place in the U.S or Hong Kong.

[Morphic]

IMO, Beat em ups are like Shoot em ups; they are supposed to be arcade-y experiences and often local coop ones. Things like Streets of Rage, Gauntlet, Goldenaxe, Metal Slug, SMASH TV, etc.

Don't really see how those "sucked" when they basically spawned/pioneered an entire genre. That said, they were most definitely "Coin Guzzlers" that seemed designed to be artificially difficult so you'd die and need to throw more quarters at it to keep playing.

Personally, I really enjoyed Smash TV, Gauntlet and Goldenaxe. They were fun Co-Op games to play with friends/buddies. Which is probably why I like games like Magicka and Helldivers since their basic design is like Smash TV; kill everything on screen with a friend and move to the next one. Working together with people to overcome hazards or hordes of enemies is pretty fun. I really liked Gauntlet since you actually had to prioritize Health/Buff pickups among your friends. Do you let the Wizard get food since he still has a super and is better against those imps, or do you let Fighter get it so he can tank the chokepoint? Though a lot of those early pioneers have caused games to evolve to what we have now.

IMO, "Fighting games" are an entirely different genre, which Streets of Rage isn't a part of. Things like Street Fighter and Mortal Combat are Fighting Games. Those are fun too in their own way. (personally, I'm digging on the "anime" fighters like BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, Under Night, etc. mostly but Tekken is pretty great too. Don't much care for MK or SF anymore though.)

[gugnihr]

What do you mean?
Golden Axe 1 is one of my favourite games of all time.
I don't know if you mean this kind of games too or not, if you mean only beat em up with a modern setting (like Final Fight) it is not my favourite genre but there are a few games that I really like, expecially Final Fight 2. I have never been too much into Streets of rage but I must admit that Streets of rage 2 is a very good game and impressed me a lot.
I would never say that this genre suck, for sure usually the stories in those games were horribly cheesy and sucked really bad but they were not important and the games were ok.
Much better than the story driven SJW propaganda walking simulators (if not cutscenes simulators which is even worse lol) that we have today.

[🖤Lyra🖤]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WotU7lfvGBo

Ehhh I personally would have to agree and disagree. Also mortal combat is another great beat em up game.

[HALO_run]

no

[eram]

hush child.

[AlmightyDunkle]

Castle Crashers brings a lot of charm and variety to the genre.

[Naedmi]

Beat em up games were great, I can remember going to big arcades once a year back when Myrtle Beach was a good vacation destination and not some crazily high crime rate murder city where you hear about people popping off shots once a week in the streets.

Time Crisis was one of my favorite arcade games back then, but I was also pretty good at the crane games, if I could find one that wasn't rigged I could get things out with a single try. I remember clearing one crane machine and giving the stuffed animals inside and just giving them to children who wanted them.

If you're really good at crane games, the arcade people will threaten to kick you out if you don't stop playing them after a while.

[Naedmi]

Originally posted by Z:

I am a bit confusing. What the different between beat em up game than fighting game? Or this just about you keep punching, shooting and anything similar.

The difference between beat em ups and fighters is that beat em ups tend to be cooperative games on rails where you beat up thugs, gangsters or murderers (all NPC's) until reaching the end and fighting the boss. Then once cleared you go to the next stage.

Fighters are often 1v1 fights between players or computers, even tournaments are a series of 1v1 fights until the other player loses.

[Z]

I am a bit confused. What the different between beat em up game than fighting game? Or this just about you keep punching, shooting and anything similar to any object or enemy that keep coming your way?

[eram]

Originally posted by Z:

I am a bit confused. What the different between beat em up game than fighting game? Or this just about you keep punching, shooting and anything similar to any object or enemy that keep coming your way?

Beat em up
Double Dragon
Streets of Rage


Fighting game
Street Fighter
Mortal Combat

[Z]

Originally posted by Explosion Hugger:

Originally posted by Z:

I am a bit confusing. What the different between beat em up game than fighting game? Or this just about you keep punching, shooting and anything similar.

The difference between beat em ups and fighters is that beat em ups tend to be cooperative games on rails where you beat up thugs, gangsters or murderers (all NPC's) until reaching the end and fighting the boss. Then once cleared you go to the next stage.

Fighters are often 1v1 fights between players or computers, even tournaments are a series of 1v1 fights until the other player loses.

I got it.

Originally posted by eram:

Originally posted by Z:

I am a bit confused. What the different between beat em up game than fighting game? Or this just about you keep punching, shooting and anything similar to any object or enemy that keep coming your way?

Beat em up
Double Dragon
Streets of Rage


Fighting game
Street Fighter
Mortal Combat

I can see the patterns. Thanks!

[Suffy]

Have you played openbor beat em up games, those ones are really swallow.

[Doctor Go-Go]

I admit, I was a fan of the TMNT and Simpson's arcade games as well as Final Fight and Bad Dudes. I liked Final Fight so much I also had the Sega CD version.