The best has to be the awesome bazooka. The game also has a very cool level where you are given the option of calling in a buddy to bring around the Cadillac. Then you can use it to drive over all of the other enemies in the stage including the motorcycle riding boss! The game plays very smoothly and has excellent controls. It all feels perfectly fine-tuned and polished. Dash attacks are very useful, giving the combat a fast pace. Konami and Capcom really used to own this genre in the arcades.
Konami This is the sequel to Crime Fighters 2. This game features some of the largest sprites to be seen in the genre. This game retains some of the humor of its predecessors. You can actually throw footballs at people! The combat has some cool moves like a wall jump and a Chun Li style lightning kick. So it goes without saying that there are plenty of guns and lots of violence. In some parts of the game, he really stops messing around and just pulls out a gun for the whole section.
Also, how can you not want to play a game where you can play as Nick Fury! There is a Genesis port of this game that gets covered later in the article. Irem Ninjas, baseball and Batman. Do I really need to say anything else to make you want to play this? These three things really did influence the creation of this game.
This is a game that must be seen in motion. The soundtrack is pretty funky. The gameplay is impressive. There are a lot of specials, moves and combos. One of the coolest things about the game is the heart pick up, which summons your own personal squad of Ninja Baseball Bat Man cheerleaders!
There have been a number of video games based on the license. This is one of the better ones. For the most part, it plays like a standard Final Fight clone. The girls have special attacks that will show a close up, animated sequence of them performing the attack that takes up the entire screen.
There seems to be up to five of these per character too. Noise Factory The same people that created the excellent Sengoku 3 are also responsible for this little gem. It features an excellent combo system, much like Sengoku 3 does. You can also shield yourself from long range attacks and use two types of bombs against your enemies.
The game has an interesting, post apocalyptic setting where your characters are sent to rebuild the world. This lends itself to some interesting levels like a destroyed New York city. The character designs are interesting and the soundtrack is decent. Taito This game features an interesting theme. Growl is a game worth playing for its crazy, bizarre moments.
Other bizarre moments include a boss appearing before you in a tank only to be attacked by a giant elephant. Also, when you die and continue a large, spiked ceiling just drops from the sky and kills all your enemies! All of this you discover is happening because the bad guys are being controlled by a giant caterpillar!
Eagles will actually drop rocket launchers into your hands to blow bad guys to bits with! Another cool feature is that you can use different attacks on enemies who are on the ground on all fours. Who says heroes have to fight fair?
There are some nice visual touches. Defeated enemies tend to linger onscreen for some time. Also, your character will duck and cover when throwing a bomb, which is funny to see. Growl is a fun and quirky game. Unfortunately, it had a rather lacking Sega Genesis port. Sega This game gets points just for making Black Cat playable.
You can also use Sub-Mariner, Hawkeye, and the web-slinger himself. This game features one of the oddest depictions of Spider-Man in video games. One of its more notable features is the zoomed out levels.
This is no exception and features the lush, watercolor style that they are known for. There is an amazing artistic quality to them that few games can match. You have to see them for yourself.
This game is basically a hack and slash game with flashy combos, fast-paced, ninja combat and intense boss battles. You can switch between different swords during combat and have to be mindful of how much damage they can take before wearing out. It can actually be seen through the eyes of two different playable characters and the voices retain their original Japanese voice actors to maintain the Japanese feel of the game.
This is actually the second Dishwasher game and it improves upon everything in the first game. There are also mini-games where you play guitar solos that add a little more flavor to the games for you fans of Guitar Heroes or music games in general.
The series has a dark, gritty, and stylish look combined with a knowing sense of humor. The best part is that you can play it at home as well on the Neo Geo AES system, which gives you an essentially arcade perfect home experience. The World arcade version is missing many features unless you play the one known as Undercover Cops Alpha: Renewal Version.
Shop for Undercover Cops on eBay. This game features a large moveset, something that is typical of the series. It has a nice combo system as well that allows for air juggles.. It features some really cool looking tag team attacks should you choose to play with a friend. Other nice features include a manually, rechargeable power bar that lets you use special attacks without using up your health, and the ability to knock down enemies when you get up off the ground.
You have a lot of offensive options here, as mentioned previously. This was never released in the US, but is worth seeking out if you can play imports. Shop for Ghost Chaser Densei on eBay. This particular entry was the best one.
It featured nonlinear gameplay and gave Rick some new moves like a headbutt, a roundhouse kick and others. There were new tools of death as well. There was a cinder block, bat, and cleaver amongst others.
The story was handled in an interesting way. You had to beat each stage within a certain time limit to prevent something bad from happening, which would affect what type of ending you got when you beat the game.
Most people consider the soundtrack to be a real step down from the legendary music of the first two games. Beyond that, any flaws that the game has are due to the crappy, localized American version. The Japanese version is the way to go. This was featured in the article on this genre, but it is still a relatively unknown Saturn game that often gets overshadowed by Guardian Heroes. The game has a wonderful cartoon look to it and some nice animation.
The story was an interesting one about some characters from a pen and paper role playing game being summoned to the real world to save some kids. They do this by using items taken from a sporting goods store and have to fight off enemies that also came from their world. The most noteworthy feature of this game is that you control three characters at all times. Switching between them to use their individual attacks or combining them together for one, powerful one is a key element to getting through the game.
The game is full of wonderful humor and features some of the most creative boss fights in the genre. Aside from the great graphics, there is a very good soundtrack in this game. However, it plays similarly enough to be of interest for anyone who has played Guardian Heroes to death. The game was released in Japan in , but received another release under the PSOne Classics label in The Saturn ports of these two games are very accurate and close to the original arcade games Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara.
The load times are bit too long and you can only play with two players. The arcade games supported four players. Also, copies of the collection are a bit pricey should you find one. That game had an unusual setup featuring multiple screens. This is kind of like what Konami did with the 6-player version of X-Men Arcade. Aside from that little detail, the remake is much better than that game. This makes keeping yourself from being surrounded a bit more challenging. You have no extra lives.
You also have to ability to block melee attacks and even bullets as you will run into guys with guns frequently. You also have a power bar that automatically recharges over time. This allows you to perform a powerful attack in one direction, which uses a portion of the bar.
You can also perform a powerful attack hitting everyone onscreen by fully emptying your power bar, no health required. This encourages you to not rush ahead whenever you finish a batch of enemies when you can wait for your power bar to fill up. Lastly, in addition to your standard jump you can perform a higher jump from a block stance in order to avoid getting surrounded.
The game also features some rather interesting moves like a special jump attack that Kunoichi can use to repeatedly bounce back and forth between enemies. Shop for Ninja Warriors Again on eBay. The story follows the events of Renegade and features many returning characters from that game. The graphics here are interesting.
The characters are more realistically proportioned than other games in the series. The combat is similar to Double Dragon and other games in the Kunio-kun series. One cool bonus though is that you can actually ride your motorcycle in parts of the game! This is fun with two players as one of you controls the bike while the other attacks enemies.
The game features a very strong soundtrack. Some consider this the best game in the Kunio-kun series. The characters are all small and super-deformed. Your characters can gain levels and new moves. That game was an enhanced port of the popular arcade game that retained much of what people loved about that game.
The graphics and music are certainly not bad for a Genesis game at all and they retain the same style as Turtles in Time. Super Famicom Jaleco This is one of those series that suffered a lot from localization, which was a common problem back in those days. A lot of things were changed as the series went overseas, including giving them stupid new names like Rival Turf and Brawl Brothers. So if you want to try them, you really need to play the Japanese versions.
There are some interesting elements to these games like the angry mode. Basically, a character near death could become super powerful and invincible. One of the games even featured a funny low blow attack that was removed due to the horrid localization.
The first entry in the series may not impress some people, but it got pretty good with its second installment. Shop for Rushing Beat series on eBay. This is a nice take on the old King Arthur legend. Your characters are legendary figures like Lancelot, Perceval, and Arthur himself. Characters here can level up, which actually changes their appearance.
This was made easier in the excellent Super Nintendo port. You play as Spider-Man or Venom. The gameplay has some rather noteworthy features. You can actually summon other heroes to aid you in combat. This game was released on the Sega Genesis, but the Super Nintendo version features a better soundtrack.
Lucky gamers might be able to find one of the limited red SNES carts this game originally came in. The game lets you play as five of the X-Men, each with unique moves and special attacks that are performed in similar fashion to the special moves in Street Fighter II.
Each has their own pool of lives that players need to keep track of. Losing all of them will put that particular X-Man out of action. The game also allows you to choose what order to play levels in. At first, you have to use whichever X-Man the game chooses for you. These levels are meant to give you a feel for the characters. The graphics are great with wonderful colors and big sprites. The X-Men and the villains they face are easily recognizable to comic book fans.
Other Avengers will also pop in to help you out in various ways like dropping a health item or attacking your enemies. One fun element of combat includes being able to walk around carrying an enemy.
There are also levels where you get to fly around and shoot enemies, including a memorable encounter with a robot that looks like a Sentinel. Another nice feature is being able to go over your max health when you collect a health item.
One of the strangest things about this arcade game is that it actually had a pause button! The game is actually full of cameos from the Marvel universe as they all show up to help you out as mentioned earlier. One nice touch is the on-screen facial, portraits that react to whatever is happening. Another nice touch is that the cutscenes are all presented as comic book panels.
This game was ported to some consoles, but the Genesis one is the one to get. The SNES version was poorly ported by another developer.
You play as a cyborg and face other robotic enemies throughout the game. As you go through the game, you will find yourself ripping parts off of your enemies and attaching them to yourself to aid you. The parts you attach to your cyborg will give you useful abilities like a high jump, or handy new attacks. You can rip off an arm and throw it back at them.
You can also remove limbs with the saw arm, which looks brutal. You play as a neat looking, armored, blue knight who fights off monsters throughout the game. It certainly feels very Japanese and might remind you of those old Power Rangers shows or the giant-sized battles in Voltron. Due to your larger size, you become a bit slower.
At this point, Mazin Saga becomes a fighting game. This game is a real marriage of the two genres. One stage has you running from one of these gigantic enemies. Seeing its head and arm fill up a good chunk of the screen as you run from it is pretty memorable. Educated gamers know that there have actually been a few great Batman games before that during the 8-bit and bit era. This is one of them. If features gorgeous graphics with large sprites and captures the look of the movie very well.
It really sounds like the great score from the movie. This feels like a big budget game. The gameplay is interesting because this game gives us a rather brutal version of Batman. He can grab two guys and bash their heads together, throw people into objects in the background, or slam some sap right into a motorcycle riding clown.
One is a driving level with impressive mode 7 effects. Other stages require you to make use of the grappling hook. This usually takes place in sections of the game where you must fight your enemies with only batarangs and are placed in a limited playing field where you can only move from left to right and not up and down. Konami treated the Batman license with respect back then. They also made the amazing game The Adventures of Batman and Robin.
However, it was an early Playstation title before being ported to the Saturn in The game does have some nice quirks to it though. There is something entertaining about seeing the female character use a pogo stick attack against her enemies. The game also features a weird level where you end up inside a whale, right after fighting a boss while a helicopter tries to fire at you from the background.
You eventually end up fighting on top of this whale! Another cool feature is that you can pick up Playstations within the game for points, or Saturn consoles in that version of the game! Plus, the characters have little differences to them the pink ranger can actually shoot arrows. He was the coolest one. This particular license was actually handled well on the SNES. The music and sound effects actually sound a bit similar to those games. You play as a wizard, an elf, a cleric, a fighter, and a dwarf.
You can level up as you play through the game, which gives you more health. There are spells for you to use and you can block attacks as well. The game has some particularly impressive boss fights you face a memorable, large, red dragon as a final boss and a very good soundtrack. There are some bizarre sights to see in this game like a woman moving in the wind on a flagpole.
The woman in question is an actual, real person. There are actually a couple moments in the game where you see real people onscreen in contrast to the cartoony look of the rest of the game. There are a ton of other bizarre things to see in the game like fish with legs, a room full of eyes staring at you, frowning sunflowers, and other strange things. Not hard to see why this was removed from the international version of the game. This part of the game is particularly surprising given how cutesy many other things in the game are like the little animals your enemies turn into or the two innocent looking kids you play as.
When you open the door a pink elephant comes out and you see black space and a picture of the planet earth within. This game is like one big, acid trip. It is easily the most bizarre game in this entire article. Even the playable characters are rather odd. You play as two innocent looking kids with magic sticks. The weirdness alone make this game worth checking out. It also plays and controls well.
You have a magic stick and can increase its range of attack by pushing the joystick in the proper direction and you can even attack behind you. You also have magic spells you can use, though the game chooses them randomly. They are just as bizarre as everything else in the game.
One of them is a guy in a microwave who cooks your enemies! If you want a game that feels very, very Japanese and is very, very weird, this is the game for you. You really have to play it yourself to see just how odd and crazy it is. Interestingly, it is not available on the Taitos Legends compilation released in North America and Europe. The same engine as X-Men Mutant Apocalypse would be used again for this game.
As the title suggests, this one makes greater use of the Marvel license and lets you play as popular characters like Spider-Man, Iron Man and the Hulk. Also, this game adds super attacks and air combos to the gameplay. A few of those weapons are even hidden. The combat system also allows for air throws and you can even ride horses. The player fights through numerous levels, divided into four acts, on your way to defeat the dark lord Diablo.
Many gamers consider Diablo 2 the superior title, but Diablo 3 is still a great game. The title of the game is actually an amalgamation of those two games. This game is set in a future where humans share the planet with anthropomorphic animals; in fact nearly all the enemies are these mutant hybrids.
The character designs are well done and have a Battletoads feel to them. The player controls one of four characters: Sergei, Ivan, Natasha, and Boris. Each character has different ability scores in the four character stats; which are force, speed, range, and jump. The characters are street fighters who wake up in an underground laboratory after government agents kidnapped them.
They must now fight their way to the surface to gain their freedom. There are six characters to choose from, and an additional five that can be unlocked. The 99Vidas 99 Lives in English is an ancient artifact that has the power to destroy the universe.
It has been stolen and it is up to the playable characters and you to make sure it remains secure. The experience the player earns can be used as currency to purchase new abilities and extra lives. This is a continuation of a franchise that began on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
There are ten playable characters in Underground , each with a unique fighting style. Here are the best modern beat 'em ups available ranked in order of greatness. If we missed one, or if you disagree with the order, be sure to leave a comment below. It looks very similar to the classic Streets of Rage series for the Sega Genesis with a little Final Fight added to the mix. The player has his choice of three characters: Ethan, who has a balanced mix of speed and power, Megan, who is a little faster than she is strong, and Connor, who is the strongest and slowest of the three.
When you watched Scott Pilgrim vs. There is also an unlockable character, NegaScott. The events of the game follow the movie for the most part, but there are a lot more enemies to fight than Scott fought in the movie. Ubisoft needs to at the very least change the character sprites and story just enough to avoid copyright infringement and re-release the game under a new title. The player has their choice of six playable characters: a knight, a drakken lizardman , a dwarven warrior, a were-witch spellcasting werewolf , a djinn, and a hierophant that looks like the Egyptian god Anubis.
The player actually selects three characters, two of which are computer controlled. At any time the player can switch between the three chosen characters. As you progress through a level you earn gold and souls by defeating enemies.
You can use the gold to purchase new weapons and items, and the souls are used to unlock new abilities. This game has so much content that one play-through will probably not be enough to discover it all or complete every quest. The player controls one of four color-coded knights on a quest to recover a mystical gem and four princesses from an evil wizard. Along the way the player can find new weapons for his knight, and even special pets that will accompany your knight into battle.
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