Those are Armored Warriors, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara and less known ones like Gaia Crusaders for example. There were more arcade 2D beat'em ups released in the 90s after AvP besides Battle Circuit. Check infamous 'Paprium' for example.Įmulation is not for everyone and it is generally illegal. Anyway there was always audience for beat'em ups and still is. Not to mention time and platform license issues of the latter. GA2 Arcade and AvP were too advanced for 16-bit consoles but latter was supposed to be ported to 32x add-on. The game is difficult, but in the wrong way - it throws at you waves of enemies (that come from thin air), some of the ledges have invisible walls, others dont. I do not have any data about US sales of arcade machines and profits made by operators but general decline of arcade machines was coming with appearance of 32/64-bit consoles. However games like AvP and console ones extended simple mechanics with more variety of moves. So they are easy to pick up by anyone in comparison to 2D fighters. For Golden Axe: Beast Rider on the Xbox 360, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'This game got trashed for no good reason'. easy to execute moves besides audio-visual aspects. Their main point is simplistic gameplay i.e. Anybody who has to explain their review is. Beast Rider is just a bad, un-fun game to play. I bought Beast Rider on day one and I must say I would rather play the old 80s Golden Axe on XBLA. Therefore you have not experienced games like The Punisher, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Streets of Rage 2 - 3, Super Double Dragon, Golden Axe 3, Dungeons & Dragons to name a few. For Golden Axe: Beast Rider on the Xbox 360, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'Dave Halverson from Play Magazine responds to his 9/10'. I just guess you were not lucky with your local arcades and you are not into this genre. That is why they released gazillion of them which does not make sense if you can not make money. The thing is I was a teenager as well and 2D beat'em ups were still popular until they disappeared because a push for 3D graphics.
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