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Akuma:

Hello everyone.

As the subject line already suggests it, I need to know the title of an arcade game which was put up in a pizza parlor near my school about 12 years ago. I can't remember exactly, but I guess that I never played it and put my money into the Street Fighter CE and Mortal Kombat 1 cab, which stood right next to it.

This might be the reason why I never really got the name of the game. All of you who expected a screenshot - I don't got one. All I have is one hint and some guesses:

Hint: The continue? screen showed the chosen hero put in ropes with a burning stick of dynamite in front of him with the obligatory countdown

Guess (not sure if I remember it correctly): The game was a 2D scroller beat 'em up
Guess: The game's setting was modern time - NO medieval or fantasy style
Guess: You could choose between 2 or 3 heroes - if 3, then maybe one was female

Okay - I know, I know... This is pretty thin, but maybe there are some experts in here who know about the game - a dynamite countdown continue screen is somewhat special, isn't it?

So? Anyone got an idea, which game I am looking for?

Cheerio : )

u_rebelscum:

Final Fight?

DarkBubble:

Sounds like Final Fight to me.

Edit:  You rebel scum, er...u_rebelscum!

Akuma:

erm... that's... strange! Because I forgot to mention, that it wasn't one of the famous Final Fight or Double Dragon, because I always watched it in attraction mode and the title was none I remembered from consoles. BUT I just checked Final Fight and YES, it has a dynamite continue screen. But somehow it's not as I remember it.

So my thesis is that either, it is the game I am looking for but the cab 12 years was running a bootleg or something with an alterned name - OR - there is a game out there which is a Final Fight clone... Well... I tend to believe the first - it's strange how you are memorizing things different... reminds me of electronicaly stored data which gets corrupted during time thanks to magnetism : ))

Crowquill:

I'd still think it was Final Fight. It had one of the coolest continue screens of any game. Probably the only one cooler was Ninja Gaiden. With all of the clones that came out in those years the "dynamite screen" could have been copied too. I can't think of any that had it though.

Many of Capcom's games had different titles in different regions. Final Fight wasn't one of them.

I always thought it was fun to play Final Fight after SFII since they seemed to take place in the same game world. It wasn't until a few years ago that I found out that the working title for it was "Street Fighter '89". They were also formally tied together later on when FF characters appeared in the Street Fighter Alpha games (Guy, Rolento, Sodom, and Cody) and Street Fighter Three (Hugo and lots of FF characters in his background). Saturday Night Slam Masters also ties the two game series together.


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