Punching up.
Final Fight is one of the definitive games of the side-scrolling beat ’em up genre, no doubt about it. Released in arcades in 1989, the game was ported to the SNES the following year, with multiple things missing such as Level 4, an entire character, and no two-player mode. Despite being something of a flawed conversation, the fact that Nintendo had one of the hottest arcade titles as a home console exclusive was a real coup at the time.
That’s not the only port the game got, of course, but for envious Genesis / Mega Drive owners, Streets of Rage had to substitute, and many Sega fans missed out entirely on Final Fight unless they had a Mega / Sega CD, which got its own port a short time later that had much of what was missing from the SNES version.
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