They’ve been on a pretty hot streak with the retro re-releases as of late, sticking a bunch of beloved classics together with a host of supplementary material and some modern tweaks. ![]() They defined the arcade and were the games to play whenever the Fair came to town, or you stumbled across an arcade when on holiday.Ĭapcom were the masters of this genre, which is why there’s a fair bit of excitement surrounding this collection, only announced last week. ![]() Huge, detailed sprites and bold colours were the norm as superbly animated characters fought their way through hundreds of enemies to take on even bigger bosses, usually with a few of your mates along for the ride. A genre largely absorbed into games like Bayonetta, God Hand and DMC, outside of a handful of ‘classic style’ brawlers, there was a point where these games, in the arcade, were the absolute pinnacle of what was possible. Getting into video games in the late Eighties and early Nineties definitely leaves one with an affinity for the side-scrolling beat ‘em up.
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