Best 80's arcade beat em ups.

darkdubh

Many a happy hour I spent on Kung Fu Master the daddy of all 80's scrolling beat em ups. http://youtu.be/Il24F1_TBao

kitakyushu

In the same vein as KFM (which I had on the c64) was Vigilante. I was mildy obsessed with this game which is odd because on replay it's not very good. I think it was the cartoon sprites that hooked me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6di6grUPlHg

others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTLE4c68E8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gOKT5KHsuI

darkdubh

kitakyushu wrote: »

In the same vein as KFM (which I had on the c64) was Vigilante. I was mildy obsessed with this game which is odd because on replay it's not very good. I think it was the cartoon sprites that hooked me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6di6grUPlHg

others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTLE4c68E8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gOKT5KHsuI

Vigilante was a laugh with its rescue Madonna from the skinheads storyline.

Sgt Hartman

This one was my personal fave.

Kung Fu Master, however, was the very first video game I ever played, all the way back in 1986 in my local shop in Limerick. I've been a gamer ever since then:) I've still got fond memories of the bosses, all my friends knew them as Stick Guy, Boomerang guy, Big Daddy, the Hunchbacks and the Karate guy.

LONE WOLFF

I spent many a lunchtime playing Double Dragon.
I would bring the school bag just in case the game lasted well into the afternoon.:cool:

Snowie

Double dragon was awesome I was more a alex the kid gamer tuck me years...

but I did complete it

Mellio

For me has to be Shoa lins Road.

The only reason I loved it so much was becuase it was in our local chippa
and I could be on it from the time it opened at 11 am to 3pm.

I actually found it online on the arcade emulator MAME so have been able to
play it on my laptop, it brought back so many memories of my child hood...as well as pacland(I know not beat em up but great game for its time).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7HVEUW-Yg4

brianregan09

Come on lads how can ye not mention Final Fight or Streets of RAGE ???

badger57

Streets of Rage was a good game. Played it recently again, hasn't aged well.

WindSock

Shinobi was mah fave

Degsy

Loved this game!

safetyboy

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

Rygar

Logical Fallacy

My favourite arcade beat em up was Streets of Rage. My favourite game in the genre was definitely Comix Zone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz-Y9jtkuiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azIZwsCGjW0

kitakyushu

I think this one would also qualify as beat-em-up? Either way I loved it. (I remember the machine being at Dublin Airport).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpVchrw0VzI

Logical Fallacy

That is like an awesome cross between a side scrolling shooter and a beat em up.

Looks like a lot of fun!

o1s1n

badger57 wrote: »

Streets of Rage was a good game. Played it recently again, hasn't aged well.

The first one is still playable, but doesn't look the best.

Streets of Rage 2 is where it's at though. Huge redrawn sprites. Looks absolutely gorgeous. Plays beautifully.

Just to show you how big and detailed the in game sprites are, I make bead sprites and did one of SOR 2 Axel a while back (they're pixel for pixel) - came out a lot bigger than I was expecting! Much bigger than anything I've really done for the Snes.



Compared with a Goomba from Mario and a ship from Raiden



Only one I have that's bigger is the robot dog from Megaman. How that sprite exists in a NES game I don't know!

Logical Fallacy

O1s1n, they look great!

How the hell do ya make them?

counterlock

o1s1n wrote: »

The first one is still playable, but doesn't look the best.

Streets of Rage 2 is where it's at though. Huge redrawn sprites. Looks absolutely gorgeous. Plays beautifully.

Just to show you how big and detailed the in game sprites are, I make bead sprites and did one of SOR 2 Axel a while back (they're pixel for pixel) - came out a lot bigger than I was expecting! Much bigger than anything I've really done for the Snes.

I definitely agree, 2 was fantastic, always thought it was way better than part 1.

Those bead sprites are absolutely amazing! The Axel on on the chair looks like an optical illusion. If you are ever interested in selling them, drop me a pm :cool:

2ndcoming

Personal fave was the original Robocop arcade game. Spent a whole summer in Donegal playing it circa 1989. Another of the beat 'em up / shoot 'em up side-scrollers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ejv-jn8no

Came home and got it for our Amstrad CPC 464 thinking it would be the same, I remember nearly cacking myself with excitement waiting the 20 or so minutes for it to load.

Turns out it wasn't the same, it was in fact crap.

SEPT 23 1989

o1s1n

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

O1s1n, they look great!

How the hell do ya make them?

Cheers man!

You get loads of bags of different coloured hama beads. And then build the image pixel by pixel on peg boards.

When the image is done, you put some wax paper over the top and iron it. The beads have a low melting point and they all fuse together.



Made a big nice Yoshi too

counterlock wrote: »

Those bead sprites are absolutely amazing! The Axel on on the chair looks like an optical illusion. If you are ever interested in selling them, drop me a pm :cool:

I've considered making them and selling them, but can never settle on a price point. They take feckin hours. That big Axel took about 6 hours. The Megaman dog took even more!

kitakyushu

Haha, that's pretty cool. Fair play to you for having the patience. I don't think I could stick it.

BTW, I see you can get transparent boards too. Just an idea but wouldn't it be quicker to print out a colour page of the sprite at the appropriate size, put it under the board and line it up with the pegs and then you could almost literally assemble the thing in your sleep?

o1s1n

Good idea! Myself and the girlfriend were thinking about making this as a project over the summer



It's absolutely huge though. What you're saying about printing it off and putting it under transparent boards might just speed up the process!

counterlock

Seriously amazing