Your Favourite Side Scrolling Beat 'em -up?

[JFLY]

I may be the minority in naming this game as a personal favorite, but Nekketsu Oyako for the Saturn is a fun little beat 'em up to go through every once in a while. It has more special moves, an upgraded CDA soundtrack (though I do like the PS version's PCM music a little more) and better graphics (they don't slowdown as much) when compared to the PS version. You can't go wrong with either verison, though.

Saturn


Playstation

[Smii]

Have to be honest (and boring) and say SOR 2 (also 1, 3). I have played all of them numerous times over the years, 2 the most. But I will give pretty much any scrolling beat-em-up a try, because there's always fun to be had playing them (especially with co-op) no matter how tacky they are

[Drakon]

When it comes to side scrolling beating parties I think of this...

capcom: button mash party
konami: button mashing with a bit of strategy
irem: batman baseball is fun but pretty difficult
sega: WTF SOMEONE ACTUALLY GOT IT RIGHT. It's like a beat'em'up where you actually get to use your brain, strategize, and don't just hulk smash the attack button.

And out of all the sega beat'em'ups sor2 just outshines. SOR2 is just immersive, you feel like you have great control over what's going on. There's so much to learn in sor2 which keeps it from getting old. And I love the huge range of difficulty levels so someone can progress. When I die or lose in sor2 I feel like I deserved it and I always feel like there's something I could have done to improve. Where a lot of other beat'em'ups I feel like all I can do is just jump and hulk smash the attack button and maybe do one or two special attacks that suck all my health away.

Oh yeah....and then there's the music....

[M4R14NO94]

I always thought that Konami beat-'em-ups were more of the button mashing kind. The Capcom ones have some depth (compared to Konami's, anyway)

[cowboyscowboys]

Streets of Rage 2 (Undisputed Champion)
Final Fight CD (Intercontinental Champion)
AVP Arcade (A home port might have given this a higher score, I don't like unlimited continues nor do I like setting a "credits" goal)
TMNT III Manhattan Project (The best TMNT beat em up. Hyperstone Heist shouldn't be on anyone's lost TiT smokes it)
Final Fight 3 (Guy and Hagger are awesome but there is a lot of things I don't like)
Streets of Rage 1 (Remarkable considering the release date and cartridge size)
Golden Axe 3 (Easily the most underrated beat em up. I think GA 1/2 are good, but 3 is no doubt the best)
The Punisher (Pure carnage I love it)

Tons more... I am a junkie and proud of being a "mindless" gamer. Even if the stereotype couldn't be farther from the truth in most cases.

[cowboyscowboys]

I always thought that Konami beat-'em-ups were more of the button mashing kind. The Capcom ones have some depth (compared to Konami's, anyway)

I agree with this

[Drakon]

am I the only person who appreciates tmnt 2: the arcade game on the nes/famicom?

[DarkDragon]

am I the only person who appreciates tmnt 2: the arcade game on the nes/famicom?

I like the new levels they added but its lacking the combos and moves that the arcade version had. For example, I think the arcade version had like 3 different jump kick attacks and NES port reduces it to 1.

[Curryman123]

Final Fight (Sega cd)
Streets of Rage 1 & 3
Rival Turf (Nostalgia reasons)
Dynamite cop

[Drakon]

I like the new levels they added but its lacking the combos and moves that the arcade version had. For example, I think the arcade version had like 3 different jump kick attacks and NES port reduces it to 1.

How did the jump attack work in the arcade? Could you control which one you did? Controlling which jump attack you do in turtles in time for the snes is a royal pain. Then again controlling most of the moves in that game is a pain...

[cowboyscowboys]

am I the only person who appreciates tmnt 2: the arcade game on the nes/famicom?

Awesome game I like it more then Hyperstone Heist

[Drakon]

Awesome game I like it more then Hyperstone Heist

It is better than hyperstone...but hyperstone has master tatsu as a boss and that's just so awesome...

[o.pwuaioc]

I agree with this

Have you ever played Adventures of Bayou Billy?

[Obviously]

"Armored Warriors"



As a mecha fanatic this game is just pure metal crushing awesome. The part switching game mechanic is really awesome. It's also the game where Jin Saotome's Blodia mech first appears.

Though really I could replace this pick with just about any of the Capcom arcade Beat'em ups. They're all incredible and not nearly enough of them got home console ports. Aliens vs. Predator, the D&D games, Knights of the Round... they really had a gift for brawlers. It's kind of funny though that I greatly prefer the Streets of Rage games to the Final Fight ones.

"Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow of Mystara" comes in a close second. This game has everything! An item and magic system, branching paths, secrets galore. It builds on the first D&D brawler and it's really great. The sorcerer is particularly awesome.



And of course there's Treasure's "Guardian Heroes" but that one's a given.