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
Carl Williams
Capcom Announces Arabian Fighter for Street Fighter V on 9/11, and that’s perfectly OK
September 11th, 2015
Adam Nelon So. Nine-Eleven. That infamous moment in American history that even fourteen years later, still seems to ring true in the hearts of many a jingoistic American as one of the most important moments of the 21st Century. While I’m not going to rant about the sociopolitical aspects of this day of remembrance (partially out of […]
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. […]
Game Hack: Streets of Rage 2: Cody Edition (Streets of Rage 2)
April 1st, 2014
Carl Williams It is a retro gaming age old question, okay, as far back as the SNES vs. Genesis argument. Which is better, the Streets of Rage series or the Final Fight series? Thanks to some ingenuitive game hackers, gamers can now at least check out how Cody from Final Fight would fare in the Streets of […]
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