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Best progressive beat-em-ups

Double Dragon amigagame-boy-advancecommodore-64genesis

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...

Year: 1988 Genre: Brawler

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Streets of Rage genesis

Streets of Rage is a beat 'em up game developed and published by Sega in 1991 for the Mega Drive/Genesis. The game is also known in Japanese as Bare Knuckle: Ikari no Tekken. The g...

Year: 1991 Genre: Brawler

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The Last Ninja commodore-64

The Last Ninja is an action adventure game developed and published by System 3 Software and released in 1987 for the Commodore 64. It was ported to several other systems in subsequent years.

Year: 1987 Genre: Brawler

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Altered Beast genesis

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.

Year: 1988 Genre: Brawler

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Shinobi sega-master-systemamstrad-cpcamiga

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...

Year: 1988 Genre: Brawler

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Shadow of the Beast amiga

Shadow of the Beast is a side-scrolling brawler created by Reflections for the Amiga and published by Psygnosis in 1989. It is often remembered as one of the most visually striking and technically ambitious games of its era.

Year: 1989 Genre: Brawler

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Wolfchild amigagenesis

Wolfchild is a platformer created by Core Design and released in 1992 for the Amiga and Atari ST. Later it was ported to Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, and other platforms.

Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer

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Streets of Rage 2 genesis

Streets of Rage 2, released in Japan as Bare Knuckle II: The Requiem of the Deadly Battle, is a beat-em-up created by SEGA for the Mega Drive/Genesis. It was released in 1993. The ...

Year: 1993 Genre: Brawler

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Streets of Rage 3 genesis

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 ...

Year: 1994 Genre: Brawler

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Shadow of the Beast III amiga

Shadow of the Beast III is the third chapter of the fantasy platformer created by Reflections and published by Psygnosis. While the first and second episodes, thanks to the franchi...

Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer

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Castlevania amiganesgame-boy-advance

Castlevania, released in 1987 in North America for the NES, marked the beginning of one of Konami’s most iconic franchises. Designed by Hitoshi Akamatsu (as later confirmed throu...

Year: 1986 Genre: Brawler

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Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance amigacommodore-64

Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance is the sequel to the popular action adventure The Last Ninja. Released initally for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC in 1988, it wa...

Year: 1988 Genre: Brawler

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Shadow Warriors amiganes

Shadow Warriors (or Ninja Gaiden in non-PAL countries) is a coin-op created by Tecmo and released in 1988. The home computer versions were developed by Ocean and published in 1990 ...

Year: 1988 Genre: Brawler

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Last Ninja 3 amigacommodore-64

The Last Ninja 3 is the third chapter of the popular series created by Mark Cale with System 3 for the Commodore 64. Ninja Three was released for the Commodore 64, Atari ST and Amiga in 1991.

Year: 1991 Genre: Brawler

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