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Alien Storm

Players
22
Length

0:40

Difficulty

Medium

Release

’91

Alien Storm is a port of Sega’s futuristic arcade brawler, developed by the same team who made Golden Axe. This version slightly mixes up the level layouts but otherwise plays like the original.

SNES

Alien vs. Predator

Players
1
Length

0:40

Difficulty

Medium

Release

’93 ’93

Alien vs. Predator is a single-player SNES exclusive beat ’em up that’s unrelated to Capcom’s arcade version. You play as Predator, therefore the combat is dominated by charged range attacks and throwing weapons. It’s a straightforward, average brawler with a notable license.

PCE

Ane-San

Players
22
Length

0:45

Difficulty

Easy

Release

’95

Ane-San is a two-player brawler on the PC Engine Super CD that’s like a cross between Renegade and Final Fight but with an all-girl cast. You can play as any boss character after defeating them, although each character counts as a life. It uniquely features huge portraits for every enemy character as well as a high-quality rockabilly soundtrack including renditions of Lollypop, Johnny B. Goode, and even Swan Lake.

SNES

Batman Returns

Players
1
Length

0:50

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’93 ’93

Batman Returns is a licensed single player SNES-exclusive brawler from Konami starring the Dark Knight. It features scenarios, characters, and even music from the film of the same name. Its gameplay is divided into traditional brawler stages and action platformer stages where you throw the Batarang.

GEN

Battletoads

Players
22
Length

1:00

Difficulty

Hardcore

Release

Battletoads is a port of the NES classic from Rare. It’s known for its steep difficulty, excellent music, and tons of variety. This port is faithful to the original but has tons of glitches.

SNES

Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team

Players
22
Length

1:00

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’93

Battletoads and Double Dragon is a crossover brawler from Rare featuring your two favorite beat ’em up franchises together in one game. At its core, it’s a Battletoads game, so it has a strong emphasis on variety such as vehicle and platforming sections. Unlike Battletoads, it has a hefty dose of traditional brawler combat and a manageable level of challenge.

GEN

Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team

Players
22
Length

0:50

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’93

Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team is a crossover brawler from Rare. It’s combat is more similar to Battletoads than DD. It features exaggerated finisher attacks and a ton of alternate gameplay modes.

SNES

Battletoads in Battlemaniacs

Players
22
Length

0:50

Difficulty

Hardcore

Release

’93 ’94

Battletoads in Battlemaniacs is the sequel to Rare’s love-it-or-hate-it brawler on the NES. Like its predecessors, it features extremely difficult memorization-based gameplay with a ton of variety. Unfortunately, this game has less than half the stages of the original and some of them are just rehashes, such as the high-speed bike section.

SNES

Bebe's Kids

Players
22
Length

0:45

Difficulty

Easy

Release

’94

Bebe’s Kids is a licensed Western-developed beat ’em up based on the film of the same name. Its gameplay features stage-based goals such as destroying falling glass objects and navigating through a haunted house. Besides that, this game is notable for its extremely poor quality across the board.

GEN

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Players
22
Length

0:40

Difficulty

Casual

Release

’94

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is a port of Bandai’s SNES brawler of the same name. It stars the ultra-popular Sailor Moon Girls in a Final Fight-style brawler with two-player co-op.

SNES

Brawl Brothers

Players
22
Length

1:00

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’92 ’92

Brawl Brothers is the second game in Jaleco’s SNES-only Rushing Beat trilogy. It’s a Final Fight-esque beat ’em up with a cartoony style, five playable characters, and surprisingly steep challenge. It also maintains its predecessor’s "Ikari mode" which grants a brief invincibility period when you’re low on health.

SNES

Captain America and the Avengers

Players
22
Length

0:45

Difficulty

Medium

Release

’93

Captain America and the Avengers is a faithful port of the arcade game by Data East. It stars Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Vision. Its somewhat unique combat puts a strong emphasis on projectiles.

GEN

Captain America and the Avengers

Players
22
Length

0:50

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’92

Captain America and the Avengers is a faithful port of the arcade game by Data East. It stars Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Vision. Its somewhat unique combat puts a strong emphasis on projectiles.

SNES

Captain Commando

Players
22
Length

1:00

Difficulty

Medium

Release

’95 ’95

Captain Commando is a port of Capcom’s arcade brawler with slightly scaled back features such as missing weapons, vehicles, and fewer onscreen enemies. It plays a lot like Final Fight and has the same bizarre sense of humor but takes it up a notch with a "very cool " blade-wielding mummy-alien and a baby that controls a mech.

SNES

CB Chara Wars

Players
22
Length

2:00

Difficulty

Easy

Release

’92

CB Chara Wars: Ushiwareta Gag is a cutesy two player beat ’em up from Banpresto. Like River City Ransom, it features super-deformed characters, dialogue, and an open world you can explore and fight in at your leisure. However, it lacks RPG elements and its gameplay is extremely simplified.

SNES

Cliffhanger

Players
1
Length

0:45

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’93

Cliffhanger is a Western-developed single player brawler based on the Sylvester Stallone movie of the same name. In addition to standard Final Fight-style brawler sections, it also wall-climbing and autoscrolling platforming stages for variety.

SNES

Cosmo Police Galivan II: Arrow of Justice

Players
1
Length

0:40

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’93

Cosmo Police Galivan II: Arrow of Justice is a weird Japan-only brawler from Nichibitsu. It’s single player only, although it has three playable characters and RPG-style skillpoints that can be allocated at the end of each stage for extra health, damage, defense, and speed. Although its gameplay is shallow and it only has four enemies, it’s unbelievably weird and has some really memorable bosses.

PCE

Crest of Wolf

Players
1
Length

1:30

Difficulty

Medium

Release

’92 ’93

Crest of Wolf (known as Riot Zone in the US) is a semi-port of Westone’s obscure arcade brawler, Riot City. Like the original, its gameplay is a shameless knock-off of Final Fight but with even fewer moves. Also, it’s single-player only. This version features slightly remixed stages, a different player two character, and a rockin’ new CD-quality soundtrack.

GEN

Cyborg Justice

Players
22
Length

0:40

Difficulty

Easy

Release

’92

Cyborg Justice is a strange Euro-brawler that features few yet powerful enemies and customizable fighters. It’s similar to fighting games in that it has several advanced techniques, but it’s crippled by extreme imbalance.

GEN

D.J. Boy

Players
1
Length

0:20

Difficulty

Medium

Release

’90

D.J. Boy is a port of Kaneko’s Hip Hop-themed rollerskate brawler. The arcade, Genesis, and Mega Drive versions are all unique games that feature different stages and enemy layouts. The Arcade version is the hardest, the Genesis version is slightly easier, and the Mega Drive version is the easiest by far.

GEN

Double Dragon

Players
22
Length

0:30

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’93

Double Dragon is a faithful port of the arcade classic that features slightly less lag than the original. Its classic two-player gameplay focuses on fighting small groups of enemies with a large moveset.

GEN

Double Dragon II: The Revenge

Players
22
Length

0:50

Difficulty

Hardcore

Release

’91

Double Dragon II: The Revenge is a Japan-only port of the arcade classic. This version is known for its poor quality but at least has two-player co-op gameplay and is relatively faithful to the original.

PCE

Double Dragon II: The Revenge

Players
22
Length

0:50

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’93

Double Dragon II: The Revenge is a remake of the NES version featuring a remixed CD-quality soundtrack and fully voiced cutscenes. It features the same Renegade-style left-right attack scheme and large movesets of the original, but ups the number of simultaneous enemies to three and removes the platforming segments.

GEN

Double Dragon III: The Arcade Game

Players
22
Length

0:50

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’92

Double Dragon III: The Arcade game is a fairly faithful port of DDIII: The Rosetta Stone. It features extra unlockable characters and techniques, as well as an added dashing ability.

PCE

Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari

Players
22
Length

1:30

Difficulty

Hard

Release

’93

Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (known as River City Ransom in the west) is a port of Technos’s beloved NES brawler/RPG. Its gameplay is nearly identical to the original, and features two-player brawling in an open world where you collect coins from defeated enemies to buy food to upgrade your stats. It also features a remixed CD-quality OST.

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