Beat Em Up Gems! Games List

obsidianspider

Another fun one for MAME is The Simpsons

The 4-Player version forces you to play as whatever player you've inserted the coin for, but the two player variant allows you to select your character.

greenhulk

@obsidianspider totally forgot about this, fun 4 player co op & i always wondered why i ended up with marge everytime! :/

Darksavior

system32 games are playable on a pi3? They aren't on my pi2.

backstander

@greenhulk
Great list and I love Beat Em Ups especially on the arcade!

You forgot the Double Dragon games which came out on just about every system!

PSX:
Tekken 3's "Tekken Force Mode"

Mega CD/Sega CD:
Final Fight CD

SNES:
Final Fight Guy (since SNES Final Fight 1 doesn't have Guy, he gets his own game)

NES:
River City Ransom (probably be the best NES game ever!!)
Mighty Final Fight

Gameboy Advance:
Final Fight One
River City Ransom EX (like the NES version but with bug fixes and new stuff)

MAME/FBA:
64th. Street - A Detective Story
Alien Storm (well you use a gun instead of fists so I'm not sure if this counts)
B.Rap Boys
Batman (only 1 player)
Captain America and the Avengers (you had for SNES but not arcade)
Captain Commando (you had for SNES but not arcade)
Crime City (another use a gun instead of fists game)
Final Fight (you had for SNES but not arcade)
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (best in MAME4ALL)
Midnight Resistance (use a gun instead of fists game)
The Punisher (you had for Sega Megadrive but not arcade)
Robocop 1 & 2 (use a gun instead of fists game)
Sunset Riders (use a gun instead of fists game)
Superman (okay this is a crappy game but it's 2 players!)
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (use a gun instead of fists game)

meleu

@backstander said in Beat Em Up Gems! Games List:

River City Ransom (probably be the best NES game ever!!)

When I discovered the emulators some years ago I almost cried just because I was able to play this game again. :-)
And I was really happy because I could take screenshots of the password screen instead of writing down that paragraph password.

backstander

@meleu

When I discovered the emulators some years ago I almost cried just because I was able to play thos game again. :-)
And I was really happy because I could take screenshots of the password screen instead of writing down that paragraph password.

Oh I hated putting in those password but I actually got pretty fast at it after awhile. This got more annoying because now I had to enter in the passwords for both players when playing cooperatively with friends lol.

Did you hear about the New River City Ransom Password Discovered After 27 Years?

River City Ransom EX on the Gameboy Advance has a built in save function and bug fixes and new moves and some new updated animations. You can even play with the AI controlled 2nd player. I would highly recommend it if you're a fan of the original!

(I don't know why they don't pick up coins in this video)

meleu

@backstander I didn't know that password!
The GBA version neither. And I'm happy that it has achievements. http://retroachievements.org/Game/2509

PetroRie

I totally forgot about Ninja Baseball Batman, I played this game a while ago on the Pi and I forgot its name. This game is freaking AWESOME! Anyways there are 4 games on the PSX I would like to mention:

Legend; My brother rented this one back in the 90ties and we played the crap out of it.

Crisis Beat; this game was hillarious just like the title above my brother rented this one, I have this one on the Pi.

Shaolin (EU)/Lord of Fist (US); This game is a fighting/rpg style game, not entirely a beat m up but is worth mentioning it. If you like Chinese Martial Arts you will love this game. It has great story lines. In the US the game was released under a different title Lord of Fist.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure; A fighting/beat m up game. The story line is great, one of the best fighting games on the PSX in my opinion. If you love fighting games and the PSX you really should give this game a try.

greenhulk

Thanks for the contributions guys, ah double dragon 3 i actually had this game too, was tough! & tekken force mode.. so so good!
Theres a few ive never even heard of there so will get them onto my rpi3 to play. Didn't even know the jojo game had like a shoot em up element to it, thought it was just 1 on 1 fighting, must say this made me chuckle lol..

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Now my latest discovery (if they boot) are a series called 'BOR: Beats Of Rage' for the dreamcast, they look incredibly cool & vary from a king of fighters, xmen, resident evil & street fighter beat em ups (theres loads more too). Oh & a streets of rage remake!!
Im yet to try them out but they are next on my to do list.

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backstander

@greenhulk

Now my latest discovery (if they boot) are a series called 'BOR: Beats Of Rage' for the dreamcast

Now that sounds like OpenBOR which is in the experimental install section of RetroPie. It's not working very well right now because it is a very old build. I guess it got ported to the Dreamcast as well.

~~I can't find the link but~~ someone was talking about using the old MS-DOS port of OpenBOR to play the BOR PAKs in Dosbox which works pretty good. I'm curious to see if the Dreamcast versions run any better.

Update: here is the thread talking about OpenBOR for Dosbox/MS-DOS:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5618/guess-who-got-open-m-f-ing-bor-beats-of-rage-to-work

Also in the RetroPie-Extra addon script, you can get the Streets of Rage Remake!

PetroRie

@greenhulk haha the first image looks soooo WRONG!!!! Looks like a game in which you have to fight against the semen to avoid pregnancy haha. "Dont let anything come out of it!!!".

Jojo has also mini games in the story mode, the game is so freaking awesome. There are so many things to unlock, it should keep you busy for the couple days (if played with cheats) else couple weeks lol.

greenhulk

@PetroRie lol it is rather phallic.. I hope it doesnt harnass any 'special abilities', I have the neo geo versions but didnt know about the psx one so will get that later on.

Having no luck with the BOR stuff out of about 4 different ones only one loaded up past menu's (and went blank after.) I cant seem to find the SOR remake, maybe im looking in the wrong place?

Anyway, yet another co-op beat em up discovery.. Had a quick playthrough theres some fun bosses & stages!

Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga III - MAME/Arcade
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backstander

@greenhulk
Nice find on Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga III. I had played that a long time ago and had forgot about it!

Having no luck with the BOR stuff out of about 4 different ones only one loaded up past menu's (and went blank after.)

That's what I was worried would happen. You should give the MS-DOS version a try!

I cant seem to find the SOR remake, maybe im looking in the wrong place?

It's not built into RetroPie and you have to go to this site for the instructions to add this "Extra" script:
https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra

The only issue I had with SOR Remake was how to exit the game and get back to EmulationStation.

quirk_unlimited

Great list and discussion! This is the cleanest list of beat em' ups I've seen yet! Thank you! I can't get night slashers to boot either! Does anyone have any insight on that? I really want to play that game.

greenhulk

@quirk_unlimited thank you, this is all i keep getting when trying to load it, just goes to blank screen after that. Ive tried another version of it but wont boot at all

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quirk_unlimited

@greenhulk Same here! I've tried every version (clone/region) for mame2003 and advance mame none of them will load. And I am using the right romset with the right emulator. I've even tried the wrong roms. I've done searches on here for insight and all I've found are a couple people mentioning how good it is. But thanks again for this list!

quirk_unlimited

BTW I wanted to add two more GBA titles
Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge

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Bruce Lee - Return of the Legend

greenhulk

@quirk_unlimited hopefully we get a fix on that somehow, i did fancy kicking some undead ass, ill make do with 'zombie revenge' on dreamcast, was awesome with co-op the weekend

thanks for the gba contributions, totally forgot about gekido advance, have you tried the psx version out, think i posted it at the start of the list somewhere