A good start for something to come
Final Fight was my first game on the side-scrolling beat'em up genre, and made me realize that I could really enjoy some more games like that. It had some characters that stuck around for a long time and made spend lots of hours trying to finish and I'm not sure I was ever able to do. But I really enjoyed it, and I'm glad I saw it, that was the first step for me to try other games like this, having a sense that the genre was perfected a few years later.