So from what I understand from another review this was meant to be a follow-up to Street Fighter 2 but the format wasn't right so it's a kind of different game altogether, oh sure we have characters from the street fighter format, I actually prefer this over that, and yeah this is very similar to Streets of Rage in a way I'll explain.


Gameplay and Story: So there's this retired wrestler who is now the mayor Metro City..... promising to rid the city of Mad Gear a well known Gang that's been terrorizing the city for some time(not the same city that Inspector Gadget Lives in obviously, and also not the same criminal organization but then again I think these wrestler would be more useful than Gadget would....man I can't imagine the scandal that would come out if they found out that Penny was the one who really solved....you know I need to try and play one of those IG games before I rant in that direction) and I think they may have predicted Governor Venture here, so it's sometime in the 1990s (though the Sega CD says 1993) and the Mayor gets a call from the leader of this gang that he is trying to eradicate, they tell him to back off and let them keep being a-holes and his daughter will live this gets pretty personal not just for the mayor but also for Cody who is Jessica's boyfriend, so now they have to take on the gangs themselves, and Haggard is going along for the ride (oh and Guy is there because Jessica's his friend too? yeah that's what the intro of the game said).

Graphics: The Graphics in this game are really impressive but for some reason I feel like they hadn't been able to get creative in the design department, I swear to god a couple of the punk designs look similar to the Streets of Rage characters, and some of them are caricatures of Wrestlers that were either alive or relevant at the time (yeah Andore isn't fooling me) and I swear to god, the female members of the gang am I the only person that thinks they look like Cyndi Lauper? (hey I wouldn't be surprised if you consider what she has done for the Wrestling industry, she really should be in the hall of fame) you know I wonder had they done the game later would they have included the Harts or Chyna or Dwayne Johnson or John Cena? nah I doubt they would have included the latter two. Also the backgrounds look fantastic (btw which state IS Metro City in anyway? the only clue is that it's on the Atlantic Ocean and there's a Bay area....huh? but at least the Ocean looks good and wait a minute the end credits scene looks similar tot he end credit scene in Cadillacs and Dinosaurs with two characters just walking and then getting picked up..okay I think I got an answer, apparently they are in New York as at one point we see the Statue of Liberty in the background, and just by looking at the backgrounds in stage 6, god I miss the old Holiday Inn in Grand Forks, I don't think they had this game but that was a kick in the 90s.

Soundtrack: Well I can definitely say they linger for awhile, I definitely like the sound made when inserting a coin

Addictive: Of course I keep coming back for more I've even attempted the sequel games, I haven't played final Fight Revenge but I bet like a majority of the MAMES here it probably doesn't work

Depth: There are six stages, plus two bonus rounds plus the final stages where we fight off the main boss they're all about equal length

Difficulty: This isn't very difficult (it's a coin-op game on the internet at least here I have time and a chance to finish the game) however if anything I wish that this was one of those games where you can have the characters run because these characters move rather slowly, also what I do like is that they offer you a chance to change characters in the continue scene (man Haggard is so strong he had to be bound with chains near the dynomite), something I wish that TMNT could have offered, and even more so I wish the other versions of the Simpsons arcade game were playable here because at least they give you that offer since you can't change the RetroArch controls, also I wish the game offered the same land function Streets of Rage has that's really been missing here

Post Review Follow-up: So contrary to what you've seen in the review I'm not a wrestling fan, I know of these wrestlers I'm old enough to remember when Viewers Choice Pay Per View used to advertise these Wrestling Events (most of them WWF related). Also I'm not really doing Summer gaming Mame-ories this year because I've run dry of coin-op games I played in hotels during the summer, I might just reserve Sundays for console and Coin-op, which is convenient because I'm running out of PC games to review (ones that I've played and there are some that don't have a page here yet and I suggested them at the end of the last TdV and they haven't shown up, why?), other than that, this was a fun game to play, maybe I should take more advantage of sites that do offer coin-op games (I still need to play Golden Axe II again for coin-op because why haven't I done a review for this?) also I've had my Genesis mini for almost a year I haven't even come close to finishing most of the games on there...

This concludes my review, join me tomorrow when I review: Math Munchers Deluxe...man doing this one took me forever (I had to replay while typing this up, now I have to check the YDKJ intros and do the silent Sunday playing of Arthur's Teacher Trouble (I'll review that too one day don't worry) not to mention tea to drink my usual sunday chores and a bunch of youtube videos to watch since god knows where I'll be at by the time the Bombers kick off tomorrow