Tag: Beat ’em up
Retro gamers looking for some classic fighting action can let off some steam with the Capcom Beat ‘Em Up bundle, a collection of seven classic side-scrolling, coin-op brawlers. The line-up includes Final Fight, Captain Commando and Armored Warriors, each of which acts as a reminder as to why Capcom was such a dominant force in the 80’s and 90’s arcade gaming scene….
After decades of hibernation, rumours, and false starts, it looks like Sega’s much-loved 2D side-scrolling brawler series is back! Newly announced on Twitter by retrogaming publisher and distributor, DotEmu, Streets of Rage 4 is being co-developed by Lizardcube, the same team behind the recent remake of Wonderboy III: The Dragon’s Trap, and Guard Crush Games, creators of Streets of Fury….
Regular readers to this site will know that I recently reviewed the conversion of Street Fighter II for the Commodore and found it, shall we say, somewhat lacking. Amiga owners desperate for a decent slice of beat ’em up action were going to need to look elsewhere. Fortunately, that didn’t turn out to be too far, as it happens. Team 17,…
A few words from KevinMos3 on AtariAge Forums: “Here is a sprite and colour hack of Double Dragon for the 7800. It’s not a major overhaul… no miracles were worked. I was looking at the sprites of the game and realized they actually look really good and are more faithful to the arcade than most of the 8-bit home console…
Originally a Speccy title, Duck Out! is 2D side-scrolling beat’em up. The player controls a cartoon duck with a frying pan, who escapes from a restaurant and heads to the local park to meet his date with a girl. Along the way, this crazy duck ends up fighting numerous enemies such as scary middle aged men, cats, dogs and lizards! The…
Alf Yngve has kindly sent us over a review copy of the upcoming release, Kung Fu Maniacs Trilogy. We reviewed 1,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs way back in 2011, you can read the full review here. I am going to concentrate more on the third game of this Trilogy as I feel that most, if not all of you, are already familiar…
Ralf over at the Temporary World of Spectrum Forum has been playing around with existing game code of the classic title ‘Target Renegade’, adding colour here and there and changing a few things. Don’t worry though, this is still good old Renegade but with a twist. As you can see this mod has new backgrounds, but that’s not all. Play…













