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Final Fight

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I absolutely loved the arcade game Final Fight. My cousin introduced me to it while we were in the arcade at this resort our families were staying at. I played the hell out of it and was excited when one of my friends picked up the SNES port. It was a good port but unfortunately it went through a few changes that drew some ire from gamers during the early days of the SNES. Final Fight for the SNES is based on the arcade beat em up game. The graphics were crisp and clean. The sound effects and music sound great. You had your choice of 2 characters: Mike Haggar, the mayor of the fictional Metro City and former pro wrestler(big character) and Cody, boyfriend of the girl who was kidnapped by the bad guys(slim character.)

However, as stated above, there were some changes made that hurt the SNES port. First off, the arcade game had a 2 player co-op mode that was taken out of the SNES version. Playing this game on your own is fun but it's a blast when a second person joins in so it hurts the game as a whole. The arcade version had 3 characters to choose from. Due to limitations on the cartridge, the third character (Guy, a friend of Cody) was cut out completely. Also, due to limitations, an entire stage was cut out of the SNES port. Lastly, to keep with Nintendo's "family friendly" policy, the names of two boss characters were changed from the arcade version to avoid anyone being offended. The arcade version featured prostitutes who attacked you on certain stages and were replaced with male escorts on the SNES port. I'm not sure how having male escorts coincides with Nintendo's "family friendly" policy but stranger things have happened.

While Final Fight for the SNES was a good game, the changes above keep it from being a classic, must own. A few years later, a better and uncensored version of Final Fight was released for the Sega CD with extra modes to boot. Pick that one up or you can try to find the GBA version of Final Fight which restores almost all of the changes made to the SNES port.

Final Fight is one of my favorite games of all time. When it hit Arcades in 1989 it was an instant classic hit. It came before Double Dragon and Streets of Rage and spawned many clones (a lot from Capcom like Alien vs. Predator and Cadillacs & Dinosaurs), which tried to gain on the success of this awesome game. Some played great like Konami's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, and The Simpsons. Some were terrible like Irem's Undercover Cops.
Capcom can be forgiven for this somewhat shoddy port of Final Fight to the Super NES because it was their first game developed for the system and the Super NES was a new system at the time. This port removes the 2 player feature, Guy, the Industrial Stage (Stage 5 I think if I can remember), smaller sprites and the amount of enemies on screen at the same time. Also female thugs Poison and Roxy are turned into transsexual punks Cid and Billy, plus boss Sodom's name is changed to Katana because Nintendo of America is so anal (pun intended! :) ). Otherwise this is a decent side-scrolling beat-em up and one of the best you can find. If you don't mind single player with only Haggar or Cody then you will enjoy. I recommend playing this game on MAME (emulation), going to an Arcade with classic games if you can still find one, playing Final Fight CD for Sega CD, Final Fight One for Game Boy Advance or getting Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 1 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox which has an Arcade perfect version of this game and others. Still this game is pretty good overall.

This still has the classic feel that was established when it was first released. In today's world of gaming a game that is all about just walking and punching waves and waves of enemies would receive a low score. Final Fight still manages to be a lot of fun despite its age. It's still fun to punch lots of enemies, stab enemies with knives, kick enemies, pick up floor poultry for health, fight challenging bosses, and the environments are still cool. The only problem is the game gets a bit generic when fighting these waves of enemies.

When I was like eleven years old, I got an SNES and this game for Christmas, and I used to play the game a lot. It became a favorite of mine. I loved to play as Haggar, because he had such powerful and cool moves! It's a good, fun version, but it differs in several ways from the arcade version. In addition to other, mostly minor (in my opinion) differences, it's missing one of the playable characters (Guy), is one-player only, and is missing a stage. (I never played the game in any arcade.) I don't think I ever finished the game, but I could get pretty far in it. Eventually, I pretty much moved on to other game systems and stopped playing the game. Now I have the arcade version on the Capcom Classics Collection for PS2, and I think it's a lot better. Not just because the things in the game that were changed for this version were restored, but also because you can keep pumping in "virtual coins" and coming back when you lose all of your lives (and switch characters if you want)! Thus, I don't see myself playing this watered-down version anymore, at least not often. But I did have a lot of fun with it back in the day, so I'm giving it positive ratings.

Okay, so it IS flawed. There's no multiplayer (A must for beat 'em ups), and a whole level + character's been taken out, too. But you still gotta play this. Since this game is by Capcom, you're sure to find that this is an awesome Super NES gem.

Final Fight is the one that started a whole craze of games that played similarly to it. The button-mashing knuckle-crunching coolness shines throughout the game from start to finish. It's extremely addicting, and in case you think it would get repetitive, chances are you will find an item that can help you beat up all the goons in the level.

The graphics are downright amazing. The sprites are all very large-scale, making it easy to appeal to the eye. The music and sound effects are also realistic and catchy, just like how Capcom would always make them.

In a nutshell: Go out to a flea market or something, or maybe buy it online here, and you won't be disappointed whatsoever (Although the difficulty can be somewhat tough).

Awww, I miss beat em ups games in the arcade. Pop in a quarter, choose a cool character, then start beating the crap out of anything that shows up on the screen. Those were the days. You probably aren't gonna find too many arcade machines with Final Fight around anymore, but you can find a port of the same game to the SNES, my favorite old school gaming system.

Although the graphics aren't as good as the arcade version in my opinion, everything else remains the same. You choose between Haggar, Guy, or Cody, and you fight the Metro City gang to save the girl...EPIC.

My only complaint with the SNES version is sometimes it gets a bit too hard for me, with the arcade version if you die you can just pop in another quarter and keep going, but with the SNES you just have to be that good to have enough lives to make it to the end, and sadly, I can't, I've tried. I'm just not the gaming guru I thought I was. I mean their can be up to 10 guys on the screen coming at you from every direction armed with weapons. It's pretty tough.

But all in all, this is a great game, I've spent so many hours playing it, it's a great stress reliever and has a major nostalgic value to it. My suggestion to make it even better, buy the fighting stick arcade controller for the SNES and then pop this baby in. You'll feel like you're in the 80's once more.

superb early entry in the beatemup realm.....

I recommend the arcade version..... get it today!!!

I remember being a kid and playing this in the arcade. The super nintendo version is a slight different. you can't choose guy, however it is still fun and really cool action beat em up is great in my book. Final fight has really cool sound quality for it's time to I think.