Beat Em Up Gems! Games List

[greenhulk]

Absolutely love the 'beat em up' genre ever since i had golden axe & streets of rage on the sega megadrive as a kid.. Nothings changed im now 28 & still love gaming! Now we all know streets of rage 1-3, golden axe 1-3, final fight 1-3. Heres the alternatives..

I have compiled a list of well known & not so known beat em ups that i have on my raspberrypi 3, definitely worth playing (especially co-op with a friend) feel free to contribute any i missed or still not discovered..

May i add 'Dynamite Cops' for the Dreamcast, 'Dragon Valor' for the PS1 (Extremely laggy, literally unplayable) & 'Night Slashers' for the MAME (wont boot) are the only games on here i cant get working right on the rpi3 all the others are confirmed working!

Dreamcast
Dynamite Cops
Zombie Revenge
Soul Fighter (slowdowns in game, 80% speed)

PSP (Sadly only 1 player due them being on psp)

300
Justice League Heroes
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Guilty Gear Judgement
Naruto Shippuden Kizuna Drive (its basically a mission select beat em up)
Naruto Shippuden Akatsuki Rising (its basically a mission select beat em up)
Spiderman: Friend or Foe

PSX

Gekido Urban Fighters
Fighting Force 1 & 2

Sega Megadrive

Golden axe 1-3
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Streets of Rage 1-3
Spiderman: The Video Game
Spiderman & Venom Maximum Carnage
The Punisher

MAME/ARCADE

Bucky O'Hare
Battletoads
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
Guardians: Denjin Makai 2
Hook
Metamorphic Force
Undercover Cops
Blade Master
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja
Growl
Crime Fighters
Karate Blazers
Knights of the Round Table
Knuckle Bash
Silent Dragon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The King Of Dragons
Vendetta
X-men
Night Slashers

SNES

Captain Commando
Captain America & The Avengers
Final Fight 1-3
Legend
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

Neo-Geo/FBA

Alien Vs Predator
Armoured Warriors
Battle Circuit
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mysteria
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom
Gaia Crusaders
Mutation nation
Oriental Legend
Shadow Force
Sengoku 1-3
Warriors of Fate

[meleu]

@greenhulk great post! Thanks!

[obsidianspider]

You missed the greatest beat em up of all time:

Ninja Baseball Batman

[greenhulk]

@obsidianspider Oh wow this looks really good! what console is it on, neo geo?

[obsidianspider]

@greenhulk MAME, the 0.78 master list notes it as having some issues, but aside from a little slowdown at times, it's totally playable and runs at good speed on my non-overclocked Pi 3.

[greenhulk]

@obsidianspider thank you! got it working on LR-FBA, awesome game!

[greenhulk]

Another rare sega gem.. D.D Crew
Just tested it out & can confirm it only works on 'advmame-1.4'

D.D Crew - MAME/Arcade

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon - MAME/Arcade

[mediamogul]

@greenhulk

A new favorite of mine that I only learned about this year is...

Stone Protectors!!! Our stones of power glow!!!

In an effort to ride the coattails of the Ninja Turtle craze and troll doll phenomenon that were both insanely popular at the time, this efficient pop culture hybrid was born. Aside from it's unique beat-em-up qualities, it makes great use of the SNES color palette and is a surprising beautiful looking game.

They even had their own

and recently

on 'Robot Chicken'. Good stuff!

[greenhulk]

@mediamogul lol i remember the toys to these in junior school, nice looking out ill be sure to add this one to my snes collection (if its not already there may have been one of the ones im yet to play)

[greenhulk]

Another unheard of PS1 beat em up 'Nekketsu Oyako/Hot Blooded Family', please note there is & english translated version of this game. Crazy stages, very fun to play! I mean the 2nd stage you are swallowed up & fighting your way through a whales stomach lol

Panzer Bandit (PSX), anime influenced beat em up, wide variety of moves & weapons, sadly its only in japanese but pretty simple to navigate into game in 1 or 2 players

[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:

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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..

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.

[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!