Beat up as many thugs as you can in this side-scrolling beat-em-up.Beat up as many thugs as you can in this side-scrolling beat-em-up.Beat up as many thugs as you can in this side-scrolling beat-em-up.
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- TriviaThe character "Hawk" from Crime Fighters 2 (1991) was modeled after Hulk Hogan.
- ConnectionsFollows Crime Fighters (1989)
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Classic old-school beat-em-up
A chick has been kidnapped! It's up to you to defeat the punks and rescue her!: The plot synopsis to pretty much EVERY side-scrolling beat-em-up of the late 80s and early 90s. Which was a magical time for arcade fans.
I found a Vendetta machine in an arcade when I was on holiday with my girlfriend and we spend over and hour fighting our way through it. It reminded me of when I was a kid, when arcades were more abundant and the games were almost always iconic of the era.
Vendetta contains all of the typical ingredients of the genre. Side-scrolling levels containing slum streets, construction sites, Manhattan backdrop, power-ups, bonus points, usable weapons dropped by generic but nonetheless cartoonish bad guys wearing typical thug outfits or biker costumes with muscles upon muscles, eccentric end of level bosses about 3 times the size of any normal human, the need for dozens of continues so the machine swallows every Quarter you've got and more.
I could go on. Yes, the games were phenomenally hard, you sweated like a pig hammering the buttons and yes, they were sexist and differed from each other in ever decreasing ways but they were brilliant.
If you find it somewhere or if you have MAME on your PC then give it a try. It may not rank as highly as Double Dragon, Final Fight or Bare Knuckle (Streets of Rage) but it's still a damn fine beat-em-up!
I found a Vendetta machine in an arcade when I was on holiday with my girlfriend and we spend over and hour fighting our way through it. It reminded me of when I was a kid, when arcades were more abundant and the games were almost always iconic of the era.
Vendetta contains all of the typical ingredients of the genre. Side-scrolling levels containing slum streets, construction sites, Manhattan backdrop, power-ups, bonus points, usable weapons dropped by generic but nonetheless cartoonish bad guys wearing typical thug outfits or biker costumes with muscles upon muscles, eccentric end of level bosses about 3 times the size of any normal human, the need for dozens of continues so the machine swallows every Quarter you've got and more.
I could go on. Yes, the games were phenomenally hard, you sweated like a pig hammering the buttons and yes, they were sexist and differed from each other in ever decreasing ways but they were brilliant.
If you find it somewhere or if you have MAME on your PC then give it a try. It may not rank as highly as Double Dragon, Final Fight or Bare Knuckle (Streets of Rage) but it's still a damn fine beat-em-up!
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- CuriosityKilledShawn
- Sep 9, 2006
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