Tag: beat em up

Developer: Data East    Publisher: Data East    Release: 07/90   Genre: Beat em up Part of what I enjoy the most about writing this blog is revisiting games that I remember fondly.  For the most part the games that were great...

While Sega officially dropped support of the Genesis around 1996-97 in Taiwan and Korea a number of unlicensed games continued being released.  Some, like Star Odyssey and Pier Solar would see an “official” release.  Most of these titles were sim...

The Turbo Grafx-16 library was woefully inadequate in many genres.  It had its share of platformers and my god did It have shooters.  But side scrolling beat ‘em ups were a rarity, at least in the US.  To be fair...

Once upon a time new video game systems came with two controllers and a game.  That is a pretty foreign concept to the younger gamers out there who unfortunately missed out.  Usually the pack-in title was a game designed to...

The 16-bit era was a gold mine for quality beat em ups.  From arcade greats like Final Fight to home console exclusives such as Streets of Rage, if you liked fighting in the streets you were well served.  The genre...

I’ve never really given it much thought but SNK really seemed to love military themed action games in the 80s.  It shouldn’t be that surprising considering that particular decade was rife with the stuff like the Rambo series, Commando, Platoon,...

Among the early Sega Genesis launch lineup Golden Axe has probably held up the best.  Altered Beast was the flagship title but outside of its presentation the game was average.  I like Thunder Force 2 but half of that game...

Developer: Technos Japan    Publisher: Acclaim    Released: 01/90    Genre: Beat em up It’s interesting to look back on the NES library and compare the games that were different from their arcade counterpart. Bionic Commando was a terrible game in t...

It’s funny to look back at the original Splatterhouse.  It was gory for its time and caused a bit of a stir.  Yet kids like me at the time could play it and no one batted an eye.  We were...