February 2021

Here’s a list of some of the greatest Capcom beat ’em up games ever made. These were undoubtedly the finest the coin-op industry had to offer at the time. There was nothing quite like the thrill of teaming up with some people to crush some baddies. Read on and enjoy.  Final Fight (1989) Capcom Play System The granddaddy of the Capcom beat ’em ups, Final Fight took the formula set forth by Double Dragon in 1987 and improved upon it dramatically. Unlike the Konami games of the time, Final Fight employed a high degree of precision in executing the extensive breadth of moves that each character could perform vs. mindless button mashing to do random moves. Final Fight takes place in New York pitting the three protagonists Guy, Cody, and Haggar against a large street gang known as Mad Gear. The game employs a cutscene in its attract mode showing that New York City Mayor Mike Haggar’s daughter Jessica has been kidnapped by the gang. Jessica’s boyfriend Cody and his friend Guy team up with Haggar to fight the high volume of crime in the city and rescue her. Thematically the game is very gritty looking, representing the New York…

I decided to rank all the Mega Man NES games from “worst” to the absolute best. I tried my hardest to be informative and offer up as many spoilers as humanly possible because the 6 NES games are all nearing 30 years of age. If you haven’t played them yet, I strongly encourage you do so. I put “worst” in quotations because they’re each great in their own ways. Read on and be utterly shocked at how I ordered these. [All videos were performed by PinkKittyRose, because I find it baffling that a human could play these games and take no damage.] 6. Mega Man (1987) Rounding out the bottom rung of the list almost by default (for reasons) is the original Mega Man. Notably overlooked during its initial run as a small time game with one of the most infamously bad box art covers, the game didn’t receive a positive appraisal until some time later. The Blue Bomber’s first adventure pits him against 6 Robot Masters en route to the conclusive battle at Dr. Wily’s Fortress (not yet a Skull Castle). Everything that was frustrating about the later games is dialed up to about an 11 here. Virtually everything…