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Game » consists of 18 releases. Released May 1986
A side-scrolling beat'em up from Adult Swim games and developer Team2Bit.
Double Dragon Advance is a remake of the first game in the franchise, adding several new levels, new moves, new weapons, and new modes.
The Earth is ravaged yet again from spirits of an evil ancient empire and it's up to four legendary ninja warriors to purge it!
The best port of the arcade hit, Final Fight. The game would feature all three characters, two player gameplay, and an arranged soundtrack.
An evil warlord from the spirit world is trying to conquer the world at key points in history. With the help of a priestess and spirits of past warriors, two swordsmen from the present are chosen to travel to the past to wipe out the warlord's forces.
A four player fighting tournament featuring the Kunio-kun characters.
SNK's answer to the crime-themed beat 'em up genre pits three police detectives against an army of international criminals in modern-day Japan.
Two chosen fighters are sent to destroy an evil empire from the spirit world that is trying to conquer modern-day Earth in SNK's first beat 'em up for the Neo Geo.
A superhero game developed by Taito. It was initially a first-person, pressure-sensitive, fighting game, for the arcades. It was then released as a brawler for the SNES console.
The Game Boy version of Double Dragon II is completely different from its console equivalents. Instead of an arcade port, this game is a conversion of a Japanese brawler.
Players control a group of vigilantes in their war against crime in the London Underground subway system. Using the subways as a means to travel from one destination to another, players must fight numerous enemies in order to rid the subway system of crime.
P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) started off as an arcade beat-em-up. The game became popular enough to receive an NES port.
Scrolling brawler with RPG attributes. Fight through street gangs as Alex and Ryan in search of Ryan's kidnapped girlfriend. This game was basically an early proto-GTA sandbox brawler, where the player can explore the city, beat up or steal from random people, and shop around.
A side-scrolling, hack & slash brawler, developed by Taito. It started as an Arcade game in 1987, then moved to home computers and consoles such as the C64 and TurboGrafx-16. Its robotic protagonists used varied combos and intricate finishing moves that helped give the brawler some depth.
A side-scrolling brawler that puts the player in control of a resurrected centurion who possesses the ability to shape shift into many beasts, such as a wolf, dragon, tiger and bear. Altered Beast was the original pack-in game for the Genesis in North America.
A beat 'em up where players control a martial artist, Thomas, who must rescue his girlfriend, Madonna. Released in 1988, this is the spiritual sequel to the first beat 'em up, Kung-Fu Master (Spartan X).
Super Dodge Ball, known as Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball Bu in Japan, is an action sports game that pits two teams of six players against one another on a variety of different courts and environments.
A game credited, in part, with the popularity of the brawler genre in the arcade craze of the 1980s and 1990s.
A 2D beat 'em up developed by Time Warp for various platforms.
Mat mania is a professional wrestling arcade game created by Technos Japan in 1985. The player, YOU, wrestles his way to the championship in the Technos Wrestling Association, or TWA.
Help Thomas save his girlfriend, Sylvia, as he battles minions and dragons over five side-scrolling, action packed levels, Kung-Fu style. Based on the Jackie Chan movie Wheels on Meals, Kung-Fu Master (Spartan X in Japan) is often credited for creating the beat 'em up genre.
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