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Final Fight by Capcom changed the way brawlers were viewed in arcades. Sure, Double Dragon was an inspiration, but Capcom went above and beyond with their entry. Characters are bigger, the audio blasts into your ears, and the challenge level is set right. Funnily enough, this started life as a sequel to Street Fighter before […]
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Final Fight Punches into Arcades – December 19th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
December 19th, 2020 
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Capcom Releases Final Fight Guy on Super Nintendo – June 11th, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
June 10th, 2020 Carl Williams Final Fight Guy was Capcom’s attempt to appease fans. When Final Fight was originally released on the Super Nintendo, it was lacking. Fans were not happy about the character Guy being missing. Sure, gamers still got Cody and Haggar but a vocal few wanted Guy. To resolve the problem Capcom created a special edition of […]
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Today in Japan Retro Gaming: Final Fight Guy (SNES)
March 20th, 2016 Michael Crisman Fans of Final Fight, Capcom’s genre-defining arcade punchfest, were understandably confused when it was released on the Super Nintendo. Let’s be kind: it, uh, wasn’t as arcade-perfect a port as Nintendo’s hype machine wanted us to believe. Gamers, being the ravenous, predatory species we are, pounced on every weakness. “What happened to the Factory stage?” […]
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Final Fantasy VII Re-Imagined as a 2D Brawler, ala Final Fight and Streets of Rage
August 16th, 2015 Carl Williams Ah, the brawler, a series that has gotten a bad rap in gaming for being shallow, not much fun and generally generic. I wonder what has taken this once popular genre out of the limelight. A lot of gamers will point their fingers at the popularity of the one on one fighting game genre- rebuilt […]
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Bandit Gaming: Fatal Fury Final Mixes the SNK Classic with Final Fight Brawling Plus More
February 23rd, 2015 Carl Williams For many, these types of releases are not worth their time since these releases use ripped sprites and music from the source material. For those readers I can safely say that Fatal Fury Final will probably not change your mind on the matter. Now, for those that are looking for something a little different, Fatal […]
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Final Fight Brings Arcade Home on Super Nintendo – September 1st, 1991 – Today in Video Game History
September 1st, 2014 Carl Williams Final Fight is one of those series that had so much going for it. For some reason, the franchise failed when the transition of gaming went from 16-Bit to 32-Bit. Competition such as Double Dragon and Streets of Rage series felt this mishap also. Originally, Final Fight was to be a sequel to, the fairly […]
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Kickstarter: Skara Blade Uses Unreal Engine 4 to Follow in Final Fight Footsteps
June 7th, 2014 Carl Williams Retro gamers know of one genre that is painfully gone from major publishers libraries. The scrolling brawler. Games like Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Knights of the Round and King of Dragons were all great side scrolling brawlers that were left in the 16-Bit era. Future iterations of this genre such as Fighting Force on […]
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Bandit Gaming: Final Fight 3 on the Nintendo Entertainment System
April 12th, 2014 Carl Williams Other than Mighty Final Fight, there was no Final Fight game released for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, at least officially. Fans have created a version of Final Fight 3 for the NES, unofficially, why the series was not started with the first is unknown but this game is interesting nonetheless.
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Final Fight Punches Sega CD – April 3rd, 1993 – Today in Retro Gaming
April 3rd, 2014 Carl Williams Capcom was an earnest Nintendo licensee from the get-go. Not jumping ship till well into the life of the Super Nintendo, later than many other gaming companies. They did license out some of their arcade games though, rather than releasing them on competing hardware themselves. Konami, a competing game publisher, didn’t do this for years. […]
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Street Fighter 2 Nintendo Entertainment System Unofficial Port in Progress
October 3rd, 2021 Carl Williams That title sounds like a bad Electronic Gaming Monthly April issue cover blurb, I know. The difference is, here it is real. While EGM would have hired an artist to fake the screen shots, this port is quite real. A team of several developers are working on making a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) port of […]
