old school beat em up games

[The EdgeCrusher]

can anybody reccomend any? does anyone know if bloody wolf is any good?

[cyberfluxor]

Well, my favorite series is Dynamite Deka which spreads over the arcade, Saturn and Dreamcast. I recently aquired Die Hard Arcade (first Dynamite Deka) and besides so many loading cut-scenes it's really nice.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

TMNT 2 the Arcade Game for NES. TMNT hyperstone heist for genesis, double dragon/battletoads SNES thats what i can think of off the top of my head.

[Wolfrider31]

Power Rangers: The Movie for the SNES was surprisingly fun, and fairy difficult. Great with a buddy.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

can anybody reccomend any? does anyone know if bloody wolf is any good?

Bloody Wolf isn't a beat 'em up, it plays more like Jackle or Heavy Barrel than something like Final Fight (and yes, Bloody Wolf's a good game). That said, I personally suggest Ninja Warriors, Streets of Rage 2, Double Dragon 2, and Alien vs Predator.

[bangtango]

Let's see.

Double Dragon on NES, Sega Genesis or Gameboy Advance. Double Dragon 2 on PC Engine or NES. Battletoads on NES or Genesis. Final Fight on Sega CD, Super NES or Gameboy Advance. Final Fight 2 and Final Fight 3 on Super NES. River City Ransom on NES or Gameboy Advance.

[bust3dstr8]

Don't know what system(s) you are looking for MAME,PCE,NES etc....
So I'll just fire out some names.

Vigalante
Kung Fu
CombaTribes (any game where you smash clowns faces into pavement is ok in my book\\^_^/)
Captain Commando
Ninja Warriors
Riot Zone
Growl
SplatterHouse
Guardian Heroes
P.O.W.
Sengoku
Robo Army
Batman Returns

[Jorpho]

Lotsa cool info on these at HG101. Here's just the recent ones:
Capcom Beat-em-Ups (http://www.hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/finalfightclones/finalfightclones.htm)
Growl (http://www.hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/growl/growl.htm)
Ninja Baseball Bat Man (http://www.hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/nbbbm/nbbm.htm)

[otaku]

love this genre! Can't really think of one that hasn't been mentioned. guardian heroes is my most recent and was excellent. Neo geo had great beat em ups with nice big sprites and proper joysticks. Double dragon games are great. Battletoads.

bloody wolf while not a beat em up is excellent :)

and I've been wanting to play crows the battle action for saturn

[Hawksmoor]

The arcade Punisher and X-Men side-scrolling brawlers were excellent. Streets of Rage 2 and 3 are awesome as well, and I'd wholeheartedly recommend the fairly recent Red Star for the PS2 (more a shooter/brawler; kinda like a combination of Loaded and a standard brawler, but really good).

[j_factor]

I really liked Three Dirty Dwarves. It's a pretty different take on beat 'em ups.

[Push Upstairs]

TMNT hyperstone heist for genesis

Save your money and just get "Turtles in Time" instead.

And more recent efforts I'd add "Gauntlet Legends/Dark Legacy". Sure it's got leveling up and magic, but you get to beat up seemingly endless goons and fight bad bosses. And isn't that the appeal of a beat em up?

[Jorpho]

By the way, we've done this a few times already too.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53823
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14643
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25417

[Icarus Moonsight]

I've always liked Zombies Revenge DC and thought it was woefully underated and overlooked.

[kaedesdisciple]

Save your money and just get "Turtles in Time" instead.



Don't mean to sound dumb, but why's Hyperstone expensive?

[Push Upstairs]

I'm not sure.

To me "Hyperstone" comes off like a watered down port of "Turtles in Time"....which is why I hardly play "Hyperstone".