2D Beat 'em Ups that aren't Streets of Rage et al

[smbhax]

@loki

the most experimental was probably dark edge, an insane sprite scaling fighting game from sega

and also in the early 90s, sega pushed the limits of sprite scaling with rail chase

but neither of these are beat em ups. maybe there should be a sprite scaling thread?

I was looking at System 32 games and was about to toss Dark Edge into the fighting game thread melee island (fighting game club) if it isn’t there already (checked now: it isn’t).

(Was going to put it in as a B-side to a post about another System 32 fighting game, Burning Rival, but on closer inspection that AM2 2D fighter looks SUPER JANKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKFIzgGi38k so I’m going to do like Sega and pretend it doesn’t exist. :"P)

Rail Chase looks like it could be good for sprite-based first-person games (with mobile avatar and granular turn increments)