What are your top 3 all time side scroller best em up games/franchises? Also, has anyone made any new ones in a retro style?
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Streets of Rage (spent many hours playing that on my Genesis)
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Double Dragon
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X-Men 2 for PC (obscure choice but it was cool because they had different X-men to pick).
Honorable mention to the game within a game from the Warriors PS2 video game
I'll try to pick a few that haven't been mentioned yet:
The Punisher (1993 Arcade)- Flashier combat than most, with a variety of usable items and throwable scenery. Occasionally guys come at you with guns and you can just blast them. Doesn't overstay it's welcome at about an hour long.
Sengoku 3 - Ninja beat em up with a good variety of moves and combos
Captain Commando - It's a bit cookie cutter, but you can shoot those 4pack rocket launchers at people and turn them into the classic flaming corpse. Also there are robots mechs you can drive. You can also cut people in half, although if you play on mame I believe you have to mess with the dipswitches to enable this. I have nostalgia for this game because they had one of them in the grocery store when I was a kid.
My personal favorite is D&D Shadow over Mystara - it has a lot of depth to the combat, you can dash, dash attack, dash jump attack, almost every combination. You have usable and permanent inventory, level ups, spells, there are branching paths, there's just a lot to it. It's a little boss heavy as things progress (and a mega token taker), but it's very fun. I'd like to see more RPG games take this format so they're fun to play.