Best 10 BEAT'M'UP Titles For You?

[Karnik]

Hello pals, always yours truly here. Today I ask you the 10 best beat'm'up games in your opinion: honestly this was the best genre of games to play as a couple of players, against the CPU, in bars and arcades in the nineties.
Ohhh... so many beautiful memories! However, console titles are also fine and you can name them freely, especially since younger people have never known arcades. Two clarifications; 1) I mean horizontal scrolling games,  not fixed screen ones ( fighting games); 2) I mean the official original titles,  not those created by fans for  OpenBor or similar. Here they are:
1) Final Fight series (snes,arc);
2) Golden Axe series (md,arc);
3) Cadillac & Dinosaurs (arc);
4) Captain Commando (arc);
5) Street of Rage series (md,arc)
6) Sailor Moon series (arc, snes);
7) Double Dragon (arc);
8) Sengoku series (ng,arc);
9) TMNT (arc);
10) Violent Storm (arc);
Out of the ranking now came to my mind "The Simpsons", really bizarre and funny title.
Well, there are many other compelling and engaging ones, but I'll leave them to you to list. Do younger people still like these pseudo-3D games? Aren't they more beautiful and colorful than the more modern and realistic 3D ones?
Don't be shy, let me know your tastes.
LYA.

 

[XXDaisukeXX]

1) Streets of Rage
2) Streets of Rage 2
3)Streets of Rage 3
4)Final Fight
5)Mazin Saga: Mutant Fighter
6)Golden Axe
7)Golden Axe 2
8)Golden Axe 3
9)Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder
10)Double Dragon 2/Nekketsu kouha kunio kun (Gameboy version)

 

[pauringu]

if we could mod co-op story mode into the bouncer, i think we would have a very good game. otherwise, my go to is turtles in time on the snes. nice to see all the love for arcade cabinets, and sega. great lists!

 

[JustLooking123]

1) BareKnuckles 3 (md)
2) BattleToads (md)
3) RollerGames (nes) (this one is some sort of multi-genre)
4) Streets of Rages 1 (md)
5) Mighty Final Fight (nes)
?) Crisis Beat (psx)

About Crisis Beat, when i was kid, i played it only for a few minutes in house of a friend, but loved it so much!
I was able to find its name only recently, but didn't got time to play it yet, so i give it (?) rank for now!

 

[ConanTheDestroyer]

1) Alien vs Predator
2) Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder
3) Bare Knuckle 3
4) Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
5) X-Men
6) The Simpsons
7) Armoured Warriors
8) Knights of the Round
9) Final Fight
10) Turtles in Time
Ninja Baseball Bat Man, Zero team USA and The Punisher as honourable mentions.

 

[dropsmegamega]

1-Ragnarok Battle Offline
2-Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder
3-Pu Li Ru La
4-Shredder's Revenge
5-Bare Knuckle 3
6-Final Fight
7-The Simpsons
8-Ninja Baseball Batman
9-Violent Storm
10-Asterix

I miss playing these games. Time to open MAME and try other people's favorites.

 

[RustySK]

I like Beat'em Ups a lot in concept, since they're such a pure distillation of what gaming is all about in my mind, same as shmups. In practice though I tend to bounce off of them more often than not.

That said, the ones I do like I like quite a lot.

Dungeons & Dragons - Tower of Doom
Dungeons & Dragons - Shadow over Mystara
Alien vs. Predator
The Punisher
Fight'N Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 4
Ninja Saviors - Return of the Warriors
Armored Warriors
Sengoku 3

 

[Octopus]

This took me awhile to actually put numbers to, but I think I managed to get an official 'Octopus top 10 2d beat em ups' list here.
1- Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara
2- Street of Rage 2
3- The Punisher
4- Battle Circuit
5- X-Men
6- Armoured Warriors
7- Final Fight 3
8- TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
9- Golden Axe 3
10- Knights of the Round

If we're talking 3d beat em ups, I don't even know- every entry would be Beatdown: Fists of Vengeance.

 

[Murdah]

Hello pals, always yours truly here. Today I ask you the 10 best beat'm'up games in your opinion: honestly this was the best genre of games to play as a couple of players, against the CPU, in bars and arcades in the nineties.
Ohhh... so many beautiful memories! However, console titles are also fine and you can name them freely, especially since younger people have never known arcades. Two clarifications; 1) I mean horizontal scrolling games,  not fixed screen ones ( fighting games); 2) I mean the official original titles,  not those created by fans for  OpenBor or similar. Here they are:
1) Final Fight series (snes,arc);
2) Golden Axe series (md,arc);
3) Cadillac & Dinosaurs (arc);
4) Captain Commando (arc);
5) Street of Rage series (md,arc)
6) Sailor Moon series (arc, snes);
7) Double Dragon (arc);
8) Sengoku series (ng,arc);
9) TMNT (arc);
10) Violent Storm (arc);
Out of the ranking now came to my mind "The Simpsons", really bizarre and funny title.
Well, there are many other compelling and engaging ones, but I'll leave them to you to list. Do younger people still like these pseudo-3D games? Aren't they more beautiful and colorful than the more modern and realistic 3D ones?
Don't be shy, let me know your tastes.
LYA.

Well my favr.
Numb 1. would be Street of rage series
Numb 2. Golden axe series
Numb.3 Final fight series
Numb 4.Double dragon series
Numb 5.Combat tribes
Numb 6.Captain Commando
Numb 7.Tmnt series
Numb 8.Sailor moon
Numb 9.Battletoads series
Numb 10.The simpsons

 

[ATenderLad]

In no particular order,

- Alien vs. Predator
- King of the Dragons
- X-Men (6 player cabinet, with additional idiot friends)
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
- Ninja Baseball Bat Man
- Streets of Rage 4 (Probably the best ever made)
- Turtles in Time
- Guardian Heroes
- God Hand
- King of the Monsters 2, for the layer of skin I left on a D-Pad beating it, with it's constant grapples

 

[BlissfulBandit]

I favor 2d Beat 'em Ups over 3d, so I'll mainly list them, with one exception. In no particular order:

1- Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
2- Undercover Cops
3- Streets of Rage, any of them
4- Battle Circuit
5- Armored Warriors
6- The Punisher
7- Denjin Makai 2
8- God Hand
9- The Ninja Warriors Once Again (original is fine too)
10- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs