Brawler games, also known as beat 'em ups, are a subgenre of action games that emphasize combat against waves of enemies.
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Brawler games, also known as beat 'em ups, are a subgenre of action games that emphasize combat against waves of enemies.
Castlevania is a side-scrolling platform game created and developed by Konami, centered on the Belmonts, a clan of vampire hunters, and their fight with Dracula. Initially released...
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Double Dragon is a beat them up created by Technos Japan and released in 1987 by Taito. Originally released as an arcade game, versions were also made for home computers and consol...
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Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master is a hack-and-slash platformer game that was developed by Megasoft and published by Sega. It was released in 1993 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive console.
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Sir Fred: The Legend is a side-scrolling action game released in 1989 for the Amiga and Atari ST. Developed by Incal Product and published by Ubi Soft, the game puts you in the sho...
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Batman Returns is the official adaptation of the 1992 movie by Tim Burton. The Genesis/Mega Drive version was published by SEGA in 1992, while the Amiga version, developed by Denton Designs, was released in 1993 by GameTek.
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Brutal: Paws of Fury is a competitive fighting game created by GameTek for SEGA CD and Mega Drive/Genesis in 1994. The game was also ported and released for the Amiga, SNES, and MS-DOS.
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Golden Axe is a side-scrolling hack and slash fantasy game created by Sega and released for arcade machines in 1989. The game was ported the same year to the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesi...
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Ghost Battle is an action-adventure/arcade platformer created by Interactive Design and published by Thalion originally for the Amiga in 1991. Inspired by successes like Shadow o...
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Altered Beast is a beat ''em-up arcade game created by SEGA in 1988 as a coin-op machine. The same year it was also converted to the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis console, becoming the pack-in game officially offered with the console.
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Shinobi is an arcade game created by SEGA in 1987, ported almost immediately to the Master System and later to many other platforms. In the game, you control a ninja ("shinobi" mea...
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Streets of Rage 3 is a beat-em-up created by SEGA for the Mega Drive/Genesis, released in 1994. It is the third chapter of the famous Streets of Rage series. After the success of ...
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Myth: History in the Making is a 2D fantasy action platformer created by the British company System 3 in 1989, initially for C64 and ZX Spectrum. The game, also known as "Myth," wa...
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Vampire Killer is a videogame created by Konami for MSX computers and released in 1986. It's been defined as an alternative version of Castlevania, released one month before, for the Famicom.
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Karateka is a martial arts fighting game and the first title created by the famous designer Jordan Mechner, author of Prince of Persia. Karateka was developed by Mechner for the Apple II and published in 1984 by Brøderbund.
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