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(c)1989,1990 CAPCOM CO.,LTD.
Cartridge SHVC-FT
Beat'em up
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Released in America as
FINAL FIGHT
( SNS-FT-USA )
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Released in Europe as
FINAL FIGHT
( - )
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Final Fight is the conversion by Capcom of their own arcade
beat'em game released in 1989. The game counts two playable characters -
The heavy built but slow former champion wrestler Mike Haggar, and
the more agile and fast martial art expert Cody. Here is the first
difference that would strike any player used to the arcade game - The third
character from the original game, Guy, has been omitted.
The Mad Gears gang is taking over Metro city and has
kidnapped the daughter of the newly elected Mayor, Mike Haggar.
Jessica also happens to be Joe Cody's girlfriend and our
two heroes must fight their way through the city, beat-up dozens and
dozens of evil gang members and finally affront the evil Belger,
their leader. The game also counts bonus stages, including a fun car
breaking exercise with an iron pipe. Each fighter can use simple fighting
moves, like punches and jumps. However, pressing punch rapidly will
trigger powerful Combos. They can also grab and throw, or hold and hit
their enemies. Finally, each fighter can use a special attack when punch
and jump are pressed simultaneously. This move will drain some of their
energy but will get them to escape desperate situations for that matter.
This Super Famicom version is a cut-down of the original arcade game.
The two players mode is gone, as for the fourth "factory" stage.
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Final Fight, released in the arcades in 1989 (picture on the right),
is a milestone of
side-scrolling beat'em up history and inspired countless other fighting games.
The mind behind the title is the producer Yoshiki Okamoto, who later
produced the another milestone Street Fighter 2. The two games share a lot
in common, especially this nice learning curve where both beginners and experts
could excel. Final Fight also introduced some of the backstory of the
Street Figher games. It is also connected to others games like the wrestling
game Muscle Bomber : The Body Explosion released in 1993 where
Mike "Macho" Haggar is a playable wrestler. The original game was
obviously ported to home consoles and computers: Super Famicom (1990),
Amiga (1991), C64 (1991), Sharp X68000 (1992), Sega CD (1993). It is interesting
to notice that a Famicom port exists and was released in 1993. Mighty Final Fight
is however different and features Super Deformed characters. Many sequels followed
inculding two "Super Famicom" exclusive :
Final Fight 2 (Super Famicom, 1993) and
Final Fight 3 ( aka Final Fight Tough outside Japan) (Super Famicom, 1995).
Another versions came our for the Super Famicom : Final Fight Guy,
where Guy replaced Cody. More recently, a conversion of the original
arcade game was relesed as Final Fight One (GameBoy Advance, 2001).
Final Fight entered the 3D realm in 1999 with the arcade game
Final Fight Revenge which was a sort of 3D versus fighting game
featuring elements for the original game. It was later converted for the
Sega Saturn in 2001 and is even supposed to be one of the last Saturn game
ever released. More recently, a new opus called
Final Fight: Streetwise (Xbox & Playstation2, 2006) was released
by Capcom and developed by Studio 8, the team behind Capcom's Maximo.
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It is something players do not notice at first, but the Super Nintendo versions
of Final Fight (American, and I believe, European)
were heavily censured and modified. The biggest change is probably
the omission of all female fighters who just happen to be males in those versions. For instance, the cute and
red haired Poison becomes an odd looking guy called Sid (pictured on the left).
Curiously, Bosses' names are also completely different. For instance, Damnd became Thrasher
and Sodom became Katana.
Other are minor details, like the removal of any 'alcohol' related items.
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Teaser text from the American version:
Mayor Mike Haggar vows to snatch the streets of Metro City back
from the crooks with his bare knuckles! But the Mad Gear gang
snatches his daughter Jessica. Now there's gonna be some
bone-crunching dues to pay !
Jessica's boyfriend Cody hits the street hard with Haggar,
denting heads downtown and slugging it out in the slums.
He's a one man army! His weapon are anything he can find
- swords, knives, or pipes.
Now you're Haggar or Cody, each with his own fighting style.
Demolish gangland henchmen, samurai swordsmen and
muclebound crime bosses in a fist-to-nose frenzy !
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Final Fight differs from its original model in many ways - Two playable
characters instead of three, no two-player mode and a difficulty setup
on the easy side. Sprites are fairly big on screen and really detailed, animation is also
more than correct. I wouldn't be fair to do a straight comparison with the arcade
game, but Capcom prefered to sacrifice the two-player mode rather than
the size of the sprites on screen. This was a fair decision, especially
as Final Fight was a launching title for the Super Famicom system.
Anyway, passed this, Final Fight is just plenty of fun with
surprisingly simple controls.
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