/vr/ - Retro Games

Using your special drains your health

And your special is to recover some health

>>2185872

left side of the city has weaker thugs than right side of the city
final boss falls off a building

There are only four types of enemies and then half a dozen different coloured versions of each of them.

Obligatory elevator stage.

One skimpy-dressed girl who's weak but fast

>>2185870
Annoying flying boss reappears as flying grunt enemy two stages later.

Mile-long buses

You fight all the bosses one after the other again during the last stage

Sewer level

Woman gets kidnapped

Final boss has a gun

Walk into enemies to grab

Mash punch for combo

Final boss must use firearms

>>2185880
>Obligatory elevator stage.

elevator stages always have more enemies spawning at the same time than any other level at any other point of the game.

randomly fight alien enemies that don't really fit with the rest of the game

Section on the third level designed to steal all your quarters

>>2185893
Final boss has a bodyguard who is a completely unique enemy throughout the entire game, has as many moves as the player character, has his own music track, you fight him 1 on 1, and he has the toughest AI in the game.

>>2185902
>Section on the third level designed to steal all your quarters

Figuratively, if not literally.

Throwing an enemy does more damage than a full punch combo, a gut stab with a knife, a lead pipe to the face, or a katana slash.

Sidestep to avoid bullets

It is the future

The year 199X

*wears teal beret, big neon green earring of an uzi, pointy shades, leather jacket with giant pointy shoulders, a zebra print bullet proof vest under the jacket, tight shorts, and rollerblades*

*commands a group of brightly colored garbage men wearing gas masks*

People dress like punk rockers

There's a "Bonus stage" that's really just a regular stage except there's a few more health drops in it.

A second bonus stage involves destroying a number of varied objects, and there is just enough time on the clock to make it physically impossible to reach the final object.

>>2185870
>start game
>call cops by mistake

Fucking SOR.

>flying enemy that constantly wrecks your shit because there's no depth/perspective and you're never sure if you're in front of or behind him
>enemies that camp just off the sides of the screen where you can't hit them

Vehicle level
Vehicle level with a twist: Flying vehicle over an erupting volcano with damaging debris flying up with skeletons playing mad sick guitar riffs

Can we please make sure that the art on the side of the cabinet is drawn by someone who only knows the name and basic genre of the game, has never actually seen a video game, and has a really really bad understanding of perspective?

>>2186170
How about we just go down to the local gym with some headbands, combat fatigues and a camera?

So why did all the beat-em-up games have that punk style to them? They all seemed to have characters from a Mad Max movie or something.

>>2186203
Because punk is one universally recognized person that means "troublemaker". The only other ones are "Nazis" and "Black people" and they can't use those for obvious reason.


... actually is there a beat-em-up where you punch endless waves of Nazi soldiers? Shit sounds awesome.

THERE'S A WRESTLER OR A BIG MUSCULAR GUY, AND THEN THIS BIG GUY'S SPECIAL ATTACK IS SOME SPINNING MOVE WITH HIS ARMS OPEN

>>2185870

But this bazooka is my fist

>>2186203
Because that was the 80s "street" look that was already exaggerated and stylized in movies, and became further stylized in the games. Punk leather and spikes, 80s colors, hip hop fashion, etc.

See: Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, Death Wish 3, hell even Biff's goons in Back to the Future had the guy wearing 3-D glasses all the time for no damn reason.

>There's 5 different difficulty levels and everyone only ever uses the hardest, where the basic enemy is the toughest opponent in the game
>normal combo comes within an inch of killing the average enemy, but doesn't
>since there's no dwarves, one of the characters is a midget
>he's the best character, incidentally

>>2186225
>AND THEN THIS BIG GUY'S SPECIAL ATTACK IS
FOR YOU.

THERE'S THREE/FOUR/FIVE/SIX DIFFERENT CHARACTERS BUT YOU CAN ONLY USE TWO/THREE/FOUR/FOUR OF THEM AT A TIME
WAIT
I THINK SOMETHING'S WRONG HERE WITH THAT LAST ONE

Asian part of town where you fight Ninja's

use the same button to punch, pick up items, swing items, and throw them

the strongest weapon you can throw is your own partner

>>2185870
Dungeons and Dragons must be involved.

of the two enemy females one always dresses like this.

elevator endurance challenge/boss rush

Once you beat the game, you can play it again with a Japanese Highschool Delinquent theme.

What settings for stages haven't been used in beat-em-ups with urban settings? There's been:
>typical street/alley stage
>construction yard
>subway
>bridge/highway
>city park/forest
>seaport/on a boat
>beach
>desert
>inside tall business district building
>on a train
>industrial district
and probably a couple more I'm forgetting.
Mabye there could be a stage taking place in a mall, or in a tunnel of some sort, or mabye in the suburbs.

>>2187506
I think SoR2 had a mall type area. Or at least I remember an arcade.

One of the playable characters is a bodybuilder humanoid wolf with an ultra strong robot arm that can throw cars, and another one is a black guy in a purple spandex suit who can shoot lasers out of his red bionic eye.

Also a soundtrack by Chris Hulsbeck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdY4EKAcW4Q

>>2187450
>the strongest weapon you can throw is your own partner
I fucking love it. This sounds like a legitimately brilliant game mechanic. Imagine four players constantly throwing each other across the screen.

Stray dogs are enemies.
Stray cats are enemies.
Stray pigeons are enemies.

>>2187537
this is literally true in both river city ransom and gunstar heroes though (in gunstar you have to throw your partner, and your partner has to perform a jump kick after being thrown however)

PC version has a shitload of executable files for the same game, each for a different 3D accelerator (Software, Glide, Direct 3D, etc)

>>2185870
*main character is felix the cat
*trash cans are minibosses
*power ups are lemons
*main character is called Mega Man although not mega man in anyway.

>>2185905
Whoa Shiva!
Have a little modesty, k?

Your typical fat enemy appears. He's the sponge for the rest of the grunts and you hurt yourslef if you try to throw him. He's either a trucker or a wrestler.

BONUS: He rushes to eat the food you reveal if you don't pick it fast enough. Runs, even rolls if necessary; goes berserk.

>>2187506
You're missing the sewers there.

Also, i haven't seen a beat 'em up in a hospital, throwing exploding oxygen tanks and stuff.

>>2186216
>... actually is there a beat-em-up where you punch endless waves of Nazi soldiers? Shit sounds awesome.
Be the change you want to see in the world.

>>2187458
Why not a game where you pick up brawls on the street, slowly crawling up to beat the main crime lord who has used CHINESE NINJA WARRIORS and cyborgs and stuff, but once you beat him he turns into a warlock that opens a portal and you give him chase.

At first you arrive at an open setting. You beat some goons dressed as medieval warriors but they reveal machinery when downed. For some time your character thinks it's all a scheme; maybe it's all special effects and he's in a studio.
But it's a tactic from the main boss; enemies become real, fireballs fly everywhere, orcs, trolls and fucking dinosaurs mounting other dinosaurs become your enemies as you progress and you have the option to pick a class when fists are not enough or just keep Bare Knuckling everything on sight.

When you reach the final level, which is a castle on a cliff and you climb all the floors, you fight the warlock:
>First match - he teleports around and you must attack before he casts something.
>Second match - turns into a six feet, golden armored fighter that has an easily found attack pattern.
>Third match- he becomes a two legged, four armed Stegosaurus with a face protuding out of his belly, with a staff on a hand, a Claymore on another, an auomatic gatling gun a a third one and nothing in he fourth; gotta have them cheesy grapples if you get too close.

When you beat him, a golden chest falls from the ceiling. If you made it to certain score gap, you get sent to a final battle in a shmup sequence with distorted dimensional abominations, while the boss explains with his last breath as he flees bleeding that everything was inside your character's head. If you win, credits roll over a cadillac driving to the sunset for no reason.

It all must be done with one credit, like Capcom's Magic Sword

>>2187506
Forgot a bar/tavern

>>2187506
A Radio Shack

>>2187724
>must be done all with one credit
add a self destruct if they can't, it would make them buy more cartridges letting us scalp the market

You can destroy (or even lift up and throw) telephone booths.

One character uses his leather belt as an attack.

Comic book thought/word balloons.

>>2187506

Labs. Alien Storm and SOR3 came to my mind, IIRC TMNT on Genesis has one stage in a lab too.

>>2187506
circus/funfair?
junkyard?
multi-story car park?
some kind of government building, like a city hall or embassy?
mental ward?
graveyard?
a scaled up room/area where the characters look mouse-sized?
sports stadium?
opera?
restaurant?

>>2185870
More like punch a trash can and out pops a roast chicken...

>>2186216
> The only other ones are "Nazis" and "Black people"
U forgetting about JEWS?
>/pol/ makes a beat em up
>called "Bilderberg Busters" ("Shin Savage Shoah" in Japan)
>choose between a nazi captain, a strong nazi soldier and a quick female nazi soldier with braids. Hitler himself is a secret character unlocked in home versions
>you kill jews
>1-ups are swastikas
>german food as health recover
>house remixed Richard Wagner and jewish songs as ost
>Hava Naguila as boss music
>rabbis are the "though enemy"
>rescuing white women and children from the evil jews clutches gives bonus points
>Hollywood stage
>Broadway stage
>Disney stage
>White House stage
>Israel stage
>enemy pantheon composed of orthodox jews, rabbis, jewish boys, deranged Disney teen idols, rappers, niggers, wiggers and reanimated holocaust corpses
>bosses include bankers, jewish princess, Fagin, and an annoying jumping dwarf jew that uses his nose as weapon

OY VEY! SHUT IT DOWN! The best beat em up that will never be made.

>>2187873
>circus/funfair
>sports stadium
Streets of Rage 2? Bebe's Kids? Ninja Clowns?

>city hall or embassy
Streets of Rage 3?