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.

[Suffy]

TMNT on NES were good.

[Doctor Go-Go]

The NES ports always sucked. The Arcade version was :) while the NES version was like some cruel joke.

It wasn't Until the SNES the games were closer to arcade quality.

[Suffy]

Yes.

[eram]

the 4 player TMNT arcade cab was a thing of beauty.

[Doctor Go-Go]

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the 4 player TMNT arcade cab was a thing of beauty.

So was the Simpson's Who didn't love The Simpson's Arcade game too?

[Doctor Go-Go]

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Why did we ever consider that junk to be realistic?

I don't think anybody considered those games to be realistic.

They were just mindless fun. Like an action movie.

Yeah, but that was the fashion during the 80's and 90's, everyone was beating everyone up. Why? I don't know.

I meant were we thinking. "Oh yeah, this is exactly what someone would do, beat everyone to death." BUT considering the times and the lack of anything else to do I guess everyone loved those mindless games.

[Rio]

I enjoyed the steets game with the kid on the rollerblades. Also there was a fun one I played secretly during math class at the computer lab doubt it was golden axe, but you had classes like a cleric.

Of course one of my favorite beat em ups was gauntlet legends.

[Z]

Going to play some old Contra game. Should be a fun day. Uwuu.

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Doctor Go-Go:

Why did we ever consider that junk to be realistic?

I don't think anybody considered those games to be realistic.

They were just mindless fun. Like an action movie.

Exactly. I have the same feeling. Nothing to think much. Enjoy it.

[gugnihr]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Miss Ann Thrope:

I don't think anybody considered those games to be realistic.

They were just mindless fun. Like an action movie.

Yeah, but that was the fashion during the 80's and 90's, everyone was beating everyone up. Why? I don't know.

I meant were we thinking. "Oh yeah, this is exactly what someone would do, beat everyone to death." BUT considering the times and the lack of anything else to do I guess everyone loved those mindless games.

Not everyone was beating everyone else, but many did, I agree, and it were their parents to blame, not games (of course).
I'm sure that many bad, nasty parents thought that their kids would have had more chances to become succesful if they were used to behave like that, beating other kids and being violent and overbearing.
The stories of those games usually were stupid and cheesy but usually you had to beat some criminal or something like that.
There was a beat em up game where you had to fight against poachers who kidnapped wild animals, it was almost the same plot as Sonic (except the robots, and the emeralds... and the rings... ok more or less the concept at least was the same), this is not a reason to consider those games bad (Sonic is another one of my favourite games of all time) or the cause why so many kids behaved badly back then.
There were many movies and games that were not realistic, sometimes they were good, sometimes they were just stupid and cheesy, sometimes the plot was stupid but for other reasons they were fun and enjoyable, the only real fault was of the people (and expecially parents) who thought that they could pick only the worst sides of movies and games as their moral guidelines instead of realizing that those products should not be supposed to have anything to do with reality and believed that violence would have been the fastest and easiest key to success for their kids.

[Sixtyfivekills]

No.

[LHGreen]

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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.

I loved Simpsons and TMNT. As to sucking, I don't think they really sucked, per se. They were certainly still in a nascent stage, as were all video games, and they had a lot to learn about what makes a good game. But we have their successors, like the DMC and God of War games, and those can be pretty awesome, and off-shoots such as Souls-likes, which are also sometimes really good. A lot of them sucked, and there was certainly a deluge of them for a while, but there were plenty of good and/or fun ones, too.