camp, and disrupt the enemy forces' operation as much as possible with the great communicator, your fists The button set-up is borrowed from Double Dragon- Punch, Kick, Jump- and you also have a back-hand attack (Punch & Jump, a surprisingly powerful attack) and a short-range headbutt (Punch & Kick). With the exception of Sengoku 3 (which was mostly a Noise Factory gig), their brawlers range from apocalyptically bad (Burning Fight, please no) to somewhat passable (Mutation Nation), so it's nice to see the game that started this fine tradition.Īs a duo of prisoners, Codename: Snake ( a popular codename in the '80s) and his unnamed clone in co-op mode, you must make your way through four areas, escape from the enemy P.O.W. Prisoners of War, which might've stood a chance if not for one thing- SNK suck at making scrolling brawlers. However, in 1988 SNK had their own stab at it, resulting in P.O.W. This led to releases like Crime Fighters (four player co-op is better than two, right?), Ninja Gaiden (we mean the arcade version, obviously) and DJ Boy (which, contrary to popular belief, can be completed), all games that, when played nowadays, just feel weird because of the impact Final Fight had on the genre. However, between these two monumental releases- from August 1987 to December 1989 (and a little into 1990 too, because of Final Fight's late release)- the genre went through a weird, experimental stage where developers who wanted to get in on the action weren't entirely sure what the hell they were doing. Why these two? Sure, the slowdown is a bit more apparent these days than it was in 1987, but Double Dragon was massively important because of its wide variety of moves and, more importantly, two-player co-op, and Final Fight merely set the genre's template for the next decade. (Those of you who are smart-arses and said Kung-Fu Master or Renegade or even Karateka, well done but be quiet). No time to listen to your answers, I was looking for Double Dragon and Final Fight. Quick! Name two really influential scrolling brawlers! Prisoners of War - ESCAPE FROM THE PRISON CAMP OF LOW EARNINGS!
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