Final Fight

I was close.

Season 2, episode 12, final fight.

Oh, shit.

All right.

That's actually really kind of

exciting.

It looks like it's a Final Fight episode.

Metro City Mayor Mike Hager is brought to his knees after his daughter Jessica is kidnapped by a nefarious gang.

By her own description, since the head staff were women, it was easier for other women to join the department.

After a chat with the game designer, the co-designer of Final Fight and the upcoming Street Fighter II, she opted for the fighting game project.

The decision proved decisive in two directions.

It made Street Fighter II one of the most musically distinctive games of the early '90s arcade era, and it made Shimomura's name.

We're going to have the one shooter cabinet and then we're going to have Bad Dudes over on the other side or whatever.

uh i think eventually that one became a final fight cabinet before i finally stopped going there but um

man final fight's fucking

good um that was where i also played the ninja gaiden arcade game for the first time

that's

I mean, I guess Capcom were not making games as good as Terraplan.

That's a true fact when it comes to shooters.

I mean, they were when they were making Final Fight, but shooters were not their strong suit.

Well, here's the thing.

Final Fight would be cool.

Absolutely.

A

your dreams.

I just think that like the big burly bear with a mustache and we might all die

in poverty, but we still might get the final fight movie.

Fingers crossed.

Yeah.

Or Final Fight.

Fatal Dragon, yeah.

I think it's also very funny to be enraged and want vengeance for the guy who killed your father, and you finally meet him, and you call him a stupid bastard.

This is the version of Castlevania we should have had.

This is the version of Final Fight or Mortal Kombat or Gunsmoke that we should have had and it could have run better.

that's how i feel people do it and they try to give it more of that love because of you know i sit here and i rag on it and stuff like that but that's how i see it for the amiga anyway i could be completely wrong

no i completely agree i think there was always a bit of maybe of a an inferiority complex when we got into the 90s when uh I had a lot of friends at school that suddenly, you know, when Wolfenstein 3D and Doom's got to come along, they were like kind of eyeing up the PC a little bit and thinking, oh, maybe it's time to move on from the Amiga.

It was limited but it was nice to have something which wasn't the whole sort of modern day back alley street fighting kind of thing.

Okay, so with that I want to segue back into Street Fighting by talking about Capcom's first ever side-scrolling beat-em-up, Final Fight.

Now, I say segue back into Street Fighting because it originally began development under the name of Street Fighter 89 and was planned as a sequel to the 1987 fighting game Street Fighter.

But it changed direction and branched out into this walk-along brawler.

And a modern day ninja called Guy.

And you set out to rescue Jessica, who's Hagar's daughter and Cody's girlfriend.

Now, the thing I really love about Final Fight is that the three characters feel completely different.

Hagar's this slow, powerful brawler, Guy's this nippy little kung fu fighter, and Cody is the sort of middle guy who's not quite as fast, not quite as strong, but he's a bit of an everyman, and my personal favourite.