Sign in
Home›Games›1980s›Final Fight
Game · Final Fight 1

Final Fight

Big sprites and distinct character speed/power tradeoffs set the late-arcade brawler standard.

Released 1989 Developer Capcom Platform Arcade Genre Beat 'em up Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Final Fight inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Same-Screen Two-Player 1972Lives and Continues 1978Coin-Op Difficulty Economy 1978Continuous Scrolling Playfield 1980

Descends from

Double Dragon 1987

Directly influenced

Streets of Rage 2 1992

Look this game up elsewhere

Wikipedia ↗MobyGames ↗Giant Bomb ↗