Of course Capcom will deny it's Andre the Giant...they didn't want to get into a lawsuit. Just like how they changed the name of M. Bison to Balrog for Street Fighter II. We all know IT'S ANDRE THE GIANT. :)
@@MLBlue30 Haha...right? And the background story of the Andre family is that they are a family of pro wrestlers. Capcom's team knew exactly what they were doing.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries , I am not sure if you covered this little series of coincidences and parallels in your video, but I am more than convinced that there are a lot of parallels between Mike Haggar and real life former Marine turned professional wrestler turned government official Buford Pusser. Here are their comparisons. Mike Haggar - former professional wrestler for the CWA, or Capcom Wrestling Association. Buford Pusser - -former professional wrestler that wrestled around the Chicago area, possibly for the the NWA, or National Wrestling Alliance, and its Chicago branch that it had at the time, (which later became the IWA, or International Wrestling Association), among other smaller organizations that have not been named that have since possibly been lost to the sands of time. (NWA-Chicago, which eventually became the IWA, also later became arguably one of the biggest, as well as most influential, professional wrestling organizations in the 1970s and 1980s, namely, the AWA, or the American Wrestling Association.) Mike Haggar - 6' 8', 297 lbs. Buford Pusser - 6' 6", 250 lbs. Mike Haggar - usually has a close cropped haircut, save for his appearance in Final Fight 3/Tough. Buford Pusser - yes, he also has a close cropped haircut. Mike Haggar - is a widower. Buford Pusser - also later became a widower. Mike Haggar - has a daughter. Buford Pusser- had a daughter and two sons, of which one of the sons was coincidentally named Mike. Mike Haggar - fought government corruption in a big city. Buford Pusser - fought government corruption in a small rural county. Mike Haggar - fought the corrupt cops in his local police department, as well as the Mad Gear, Skull Cross, Thugs, Jersey Thugs, Punx, Glowheads, and numerous other gangs, as well as people, in wrestling rings, bar fights, and underground fight clubs, both before and after his professional wrestling career. Buford Pusser - fought many professional wrestlers, may have also dabbled in occasional bar fights, as well as underground fight clubs, and fought the corrupt local police department, sheriff's department, Dixie Mafia and State Line Mafia. Mike Haggar - fought corrupt cops in the police department where he lived (Edi E and Dave, among potentially others). Buford Pusser - fought corrupt cops in both a local police department and a sheriff's department (James Dickey and several other corrupt cops and sheriff's deputies). Mike Haggar - recruited people, both within his local government, as well as citizens, to help him fight the police corruption and gangs that plagued where he lived. Buford Pusser - also recruited people, both within his sheriff's department, as well as civilians, to help him fight the police corruption and gangs that plagued where he lived. Mike Haggar - has a penchant for using weapons in fights. Buford Pusser - also had a penchant for using weapons in fights. Mike Haggar - became a mayor. Buford Pusser - became a constable, a police officer, and a sheriff, then tried to run for a town mayor, and, presumably later, a county mayor, but was possibly assassinated before he could run for the town mayor position. Mike Haggar - lost a re-election bid (to become a mayor in his case). Buford Pusser - lost a re-election bid (to become a sheriff in his case). Yeah, there are a scary amount of parallels between both people. Also, yeah, Mike Haggar is a Yankee version of Buford Pusser.
You are yet another example of why i love the internet. The proliferation of many many different content creators did what the good 'ole networks never would --- have someone make a documentary on one of my cherished childhood memories: Final Fight !!
The SNES version also omitted the industrial stage where you fight Rolento. The GBA version also had that same censorship of replacing Poison and Roxy with Billy and Sid. Another great thing about the GBA version besides being closer to the arcade version than the SNES is that you get to select different colors for your characters and play as the SFA3 versions of Guy and Cody. It's also nice that your characters have dialogues with bosses. And the Sega CD version is the only version to have voice acting.
Man, what a throwback! My buddy and I would play this in the arcade every chance we go when we were kids! Now? I have an arcade stick at home to play it on. Awesome documentary! Thanks for this! Subbed!
i remember when i met this beast for the first time, it was an arcade gallery near our high school when we used to go after a day of class, they barely used original machines, but instead custom arcade cabinets with very large 29" TVs with huge control buttoms, so image the size of these gigantic sprites, it was amazing, and it still is a fantastic game.
Very informative, and cleared up a lot of my vague understanding about Final Fight after reading about the game on Wikipedia. I remember reading somewhere else that Guy (while technically born in the U.S.) was actually raised from childhood in Japan (and in fact, he has not completely mastered fluent English). Supposedly after being trained from a very young age in Bushinryu ninjitsu, he returned to the land of his birth (Metro City U.S.A.) in order to sharpen his fighting skills by facing opponents with completely different fighting styles, where he met Cody. The game begins shortly after this point in time. The "Gay" reference is obviously a mistake in romanizing the spelling of his name from Japanese to English, but it raises the question of whether the proper romanji spelling of his name should be G-U-Y or G-A-I. The Japanese Kanji for "gai" (外) means "outside, external, foreign" (as in the word "gaijin", meaning a foreigner or outsider) so this makes some sort of sense if he was actually raised and educated in Japan, while the pronunciation is identical to "Guy" in English. In the game he is called Guy (i.e., gai) since he is foreign, or from outside Metro City.
Thank you for the nice words. I was just kidding about guy being gay. Thank you for the rest of the information though, I never knew any of guys back story.
I was playing this the other evening on PS4 with a friend (it's part of a pack called the Capcom Beat em up Bundle with 6 other brawlers) and it's still as playable today. Some of the characters are really cheap (Rolando for example) but what was interesting was the similarities to some of the streets of Rage characters, particularly Signal. Awesome episode by the way.
A true arcade classic. The SNES port was a little week. But the Sega CD version was great. Now I’m playing it on the Switch with the other Capcom beat em ups.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries agreed. The Sega CD was cool at the time, but so overpriced and seconding the fact that your still stuck with the Genesis color palette. I remember thinking the turbo grafx and turboduo cd games looked more colorful then the Sega CD buy far.
Brilliantly well done videos informative and funny been watching your channel recently and you have done so many games from my childhood and also shown the Amstrad versions which i didnt even think you had in the usa? Loved my Amstrad back in the day and would love to see you do a video of the multiplatform classic..Myth: history in the making and also Last Ninja 2? Anyway just some suggestions keep up the good work you’ve got yourself a subscriber in me. P.S your voice sounds like the late great actor Robert Forster.
I remember it was 1990 when i first seen this classic in the kilmarnock arcade in ayrshire, Scotland. I used to play crime fighters which is a nice game aswell.. But when i seen ff my eyes couldn't believe the giant characters on thec25inch monitor and the great attract mode and thumping music.. I honestly was blown away.. Its the best scrolling beat em up in the arcade of all time.. I think anyway. I love street of rage on the megadrive and it comes a very close second to this arcade masterpiece..
I get why people are so negative towards it. Sure it's missing the two player option and a couple of levels but is still a great conversion especially back in 1991
Yo Pat!! Good job!!! Final Fight actually is my all time favorite game!! It's always a great pleasure to pop by these in-depth videos about arcade legends!! Keep up the good work 😁😁 Also, I've finally managed to beat this game with 7 credits!! Hopefully, I'll improve my gaming!! Additionally, I didn't know about the history behind Guy's name (apart from the reference to Guy Picciotto from the band Fugazi)
I'm really glad I bought this Arcade1Up last Spring....the first time I played through it I was blown away by how much "adult" content was in the game.....very cool
Another excellent and informative video. Now we have Final Fight on the Capcom Beat Em Up Collection (one of many excellent Capcom beat em ups on the collection) for Nintendo Switch which is totally awesome, especially in the many different ways you can play multiplayer. You can play local couch coop on the Big screen when docked, can play in tabletop mode, can also play local wireless between multiple Switches, and can also play online.
Yes. I wish more people had the Beat em up collection. Most of the time when I go to the online multiplayer I just get tumbleweed blowing across my screen.
Another awesome documentary of my top 5 favorite action arcade game of the late 80's. I still own Finals Fight for the SNES and its sequels. But the arcade version with Guy is superb in everyway. I subscribed to your channel. If you're on Facebook, let me know.
Another great vid on a great game my best bud and I spent a great deal of time playing. Can't remember if it was Super Ninturdo or Sega CD - as he was the true gamer he had most systems and 2-3 stayed on his gaming table. As a huge wrestling fan I HAD to play as Haggar and be the Inaugural Mayor of Suplex City. Lol Yessir, music, comics and rasslin', that's me! Congrats on all your perfect 300 games in bowling!!! Meant to say that during Hx of Batman comment...ooops! Highest I ever got was around 250-ish. I bow to your game knowledge, passion and bowling superiority! 👍👍👍
Thank you so much for the kind words. If you guys are playing two player on final fight and it had to be the Sega CD version. Since I'm a huge wrestling fan to I always played as HagarAs well :-) 250 is still a heck of a great game.
Hey Pat, I am still rewatching your vids!!! Had to take a break due to warmer temps and broken A/C!!! We are around the same age, and I am a partial amputee!!! Lost Big toe and part of my foot due to a bad infection!!! You are an inspiration and I love your vids!!! Keep up the great work!!!
One of the greatest games ever. Well now with the renamed to Hugo character in SF4 they've clearly made the link to Andre the Giant a thing now. His intro thingy is based on Andre's match with Hulk Hogan, so he may not originally have been based on Andre, but Capcom have went down that road now for sure. Really like Poison just from a design aspect, she just looks so fucking cool and badass. Specially in SF4. Damned is also so iconic. It's a wonder he didn't get into SF too. Also the Sharp 68000 wasn't just a development machine. Capcom liked it so much they BASED the CPS system on it. So was very similar. Hence things run pretty much the same. Shame it never got a PROPER sequel that was worthy of the first game :( A new Final Fight game could make for a great mobile game too, not a fan of those much, but beat-em-ups do work well with there simple controls and graphics. Hey Streets of Rage 4 is coming so maybe will spark a little re-birth of the classic beat-em-up and Capcom might jump on board! We can hope!
I remember being blown away as a kid the first time I saw Final Fight at an arcade in 1989 or 1990. The graphics and animations were head and shoulders above the rest, and remain excellent even by current standards. The gameplay was absolutely astounding. Well done Capcom 👍👍👍
I still have the Sega CD version. It can be played as a music CD (for the soundtrack). Random SEGA CD's can be played like that (some include voice sound bytes).
@@Deathtank75 Cool. Good to know. I also extracted and burned some PS1 games music to CD Gekido and Pac Man World to be specific. I'm guessing those game discs can be played the same way as Sega's.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Aw, thanks for calling me that, my dude. Your videos kick so much ass. Glad a friend of mine sent me one of your videos. I've been hooked ever since.
In 2004 I was watching Godzilla: Final Wars & when I saw Captain Gordon in the movie I stood up and yelled, That's HAGGAR!!! Even the title had FINAL in it, I knew who they were basing that character from Final Fight! When ever I play Final Fight I am always Haggar when I first saw he could Pile Driver his opponents I was hooked! I have the GBA Version and I'm glade you gave it high praises as i truly do love that game! Just watching this video makes me want to break out my GBA & drop kick some baddies! Thanks for another awesome video Patman!
Final Fight was also featured in the arcade compilation, Capcom Classics Collection for PS2 & original Xbox. It's also worth noting that Mike Haggar made an appearance in another Capcom game: Saturday Night Slam Masters. Soddom & Guy first appeared in Street Fighter Alpha, Rolento first appeared in Street Fighter Alpha 2, & Cody appeared in Street Fighter Alpha 3.
I still remember like it was yestardy I was young walked into my arcade place something just draws me to this final arcade machine and that's it I was hooked years later I purchased on mega cd but was never happy arcade ruled
Great Documentary, The Amiga version did support two buttons providing you had a joystick with A & B buttons or you could use a Sega Megadrive/Genesis controller.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries no problem, a few games on the Amiga took advantage of two buttons, of course with the option of the keyboard if you didn't.
Cool game back in the day, played it at the arcade everytime I went, I even had it for Sega Cd, which didn’t last long since Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat was right around the corner.
Wait. Hol' up. A PER-FECT 300 GAME? You're "very first" perfect 300 game. Implying that you have bowled a perfect game more than once. Well, well, my friend, that is quite the accomplishment. Cheers! Now, I wonder if you have a favorite console or arcade bowling game? Silver Strike for Me! You've got some sweet retro gaming docs. Another great job here with Final Fight. Thanks for your time and effort. Keep 'em coming!
Yes, I've been bowling since I was about three years old. I've actually had about 15 perfect 300 games. Thanks for the kind words. I don't really have a favorite console. I've been playing games since the black-and-white arcade games back in 1976 with everything since then. Maybe the super Nintendo or the original Nintendo I guess. My favorite arcade bowling game would have to be silver strike. The controls are a bit tricky but it's a lot of fun to play. Glad you are enjoying my documentaries. Please subscribe and share it so my channel can grow Thanks
Great one! I really enjoyed it. Can you do SImCity next? They shared an unreleased SimCity rom for Christmas and it's SimCity for NES. SimCity has such an amazing history.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries hey not to bug you, but have you ever played sunset riders 1 or 2? co op games. lots of fun but im not sure if it had a big fan base or people remember number 2 was still at skateland when i was a kid i played it everytime i went.
Believe what you want... "Andore" was absolutely based off of Andre the giant in my eyes. That's like saying "Hugo" isn't another version of Andre the giant. Preposterous.
I've only had a NES clone back in the early to mid 90s, so Mighty Final Fight is the only Final Fight game I came to play. And boy I still have warm memories of my Chibi Hagger beatin' 'em up!
It took me about 200 attempts on MAME before I finally completed Final Fight with one credit. ;*D It took me about 50 or so to complete cadillacs and dinosaurs with one credit.
I have always thought/wondered if this game had any influence from the 1984 movie Streets of Fire. After all, in that movie: the main character is named Cody, in the movie Cody wears the suspenders that Haggar in the game wears (more or less), the movie is about a guy rescuing a girl who was kidnapped by a street gang, and some of the costumes worn by the enemies in the movie (such as the Bred/Dug characters) have some costume similarities with some of the Bombers from the movie. I have no doubt there were many influences, and I've never seen an official connection with this game and the movie Streets of Fire, but I've always wondered about it, and every time I watch the movie again I'm convinced that the developers of this game must have been inspired partially by this movie.
The best home port released in North America and Europe. The X68000 Was the best home version back in the day. But like I said, the computer cost about $6000 :-)
This was my favourite arcade game. I bought the SNES version, was okay but was not as good. Then in summer 2007 I bought an original arcade, complete with basic art graphics on it. It has not been used much in the past 5 years to be fair, but remains one of my most prized possessions. Now sitting with a motor cycle cover sitting on it and in the garage, I am awaiting the time when it will make a reappearance.
first played this on SNES.. loved the hell out of this game. Always enjoyed playing as Hagar.. i learned how to maximize the hits per enemy be4 they get knocked over.. that's one of the main things i remembered doing. As i get older i realize how few ppl knew abt this game.. i didn't know that at the time..thought it was classic and still do.
The SNES version was not just missing Guy. There were also other stages that were missing. I seem to recall there being 2 that were missing, though they are a little hazy in my memory. There was a sort of industrial zone where there were fire floors and stuff and there was another stage that had an elevator going up and the boss, Rolento, of the stage would climb around and chuck grenades at you in the elevator or something like that. As said in this video, in this game, many of the characters are named after musical references. Roxy was named for the band Roxy Music, Poison was named for the band Poison. They were replaced by Billy and Sid (might be getting spelling wrong from game) who, if memory serves, were named after Billy Idol and Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols. The boss Abigail was made up with face paint and named Abigail as a nod to King Diamond, who wore face paint and had a popular song called Abigail. There is also Axel and Slash as a nod to the members of Guns n Roses. I can't remember any others off the top of my head, but there are a few.
I went into my local arcades and soon as I seen this game over was hooked also got to mention ninja turtles man there was big lines outside to play turtles and mortal kombat street fighter 2 that's the reason I never did any good in school days in the 90s
I loved this genre growing up. I played this game in the arcade quite extensively. I remember Sega's answer with Streets of Rage. By 1991, I had both SOR for my Genesis and Final Fight for my Snes. I preferred SOR even though the graphics were not as sharp. Of course that all changed in 1992 with the release of SOR2. Everything about the second Streets of Rage was absolutely mind blowing. The sound, graphics, gameplay, and of course superior crowd control made SOR2 the best in the genre.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Final Fight was truly something but at least to me it was short in two areas. 1. The ability to chain attacks that essentially controls the crowds. Nothing is as smooth to me as SOR2. It you're good enough, ypu can roll into every enemy in the first two games in almost in a rythm. 2. The move sets for each character IN SOR 2 was truly different and each character felt genuine and unique. The second game is pure nirvana as you strip enemy after entemy unscathed on the hardest setting.
I tried Mighty Final Fight once. I had this GBA cart called Capcom Mini Classics that had it as well as the NES versions of Bionic Commando and Strider. I played those two alot more.
I love this game!!! Use to play it at the near by Market:) snes port was ok but was missing a few things from the arcade but still fun to play. The last 2 sequels on snes were great!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries i definitely agree and the thing I didn't like too was that if you threw the enemy into the telephone booth it wouldn't smash like in the arcade. disappointing :(
Was playing this online MAME a few years ago, and on the car bonus stage, as the badguy came on to say the "Oh my god!" my friend shouted out on the Mic , "MY CHILDREN WERE IN THAT CAR!"
StreetWise was very good in my opinion. I play that game endlessly and like how it started off as a fighting game and turn into some type of post apocalyptic drug game. It gave you something different with a good story line. I actually was waiting on part 2 of the way part 1 end but now I see why I never happened.
Cool. Many fans including myself kept writing to Sega to make SOR4, and they finally did through another developer, Lizard Cube. Turned out to be an awesome game.
Of course Capcom will deny it's Andre the Giant...they didn't want to get into a lawsuit. Just like how they changed the name of M. Bison to Balrog for Street Fighter II. We all know IT'S ANDRE THE GIANT. :)
Exactly
"Totally not Andre, I put a friend into the game." Right...
@@MLBlue30 Haha...right? And the background story of the Andre family is that they are a family of pro wrestlers. Capcom's team knew exactly what they were doing.
Slopes had said the same thing, but all Final Fight fans know otherwise. Nice try, Patman.
And in Street Fighter III, Alex and Andore have a Hogan/Andre Wrestlemania III styled stare-down.
I’m really digging your documentaries, thank you!
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AGH HA HA HA HA ...AGH HA HA HA HA
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries , I am not sure if you covered this little series of coincidences and parallels in your video, but I am more than convinced that there are a lot of parallels between Mike Haggar and real life former Marine turned professional wrestler turned government official Buford Pusser. Here are their comparisons.
Mike Haggar - former professional wrestler for the CWA, or Capcom Wrestling Association.
Buford Pusser - -former professional wrestler that wrestled around the Chicago area, possibly for the the NWA, or National Wrestling Alliance, and its Chicago branch that it had at the time, (which later became the IWA, or International Wrestling Association), among other smaller organizations that have not been named that have since possibly been lost to the sands of time. (NWA-Chicago, which eventually became the IWA, also later became arguably one of the biggest, as well as most influential, professional wrestling organizations in the 1970s and 1980s, namely, the AWA, or the American Wrestling Association.)
Mike Haggar - 6' 8', 297 lbs.
Buford Pusser - 6' 6", 250 lbs.
Mike Haggar - usually has a close cropped haircut, save for his appearance in Final Fight 3/Tough.
Buford Pusser - yes, he also has a close cropped haircut.
Mike Haggar - is a widower.
Buford Pusser - also later became a widower.
Mike Haggar - has a daughter.
Buford Pusser- had a daughter and two sons, of which one of the sons was coincidentally named Mike.
Mike Haggar - fought government corruption in a big city.
Buford Pusser - fought government corruption in a small rural county.
Mike Haggar - fought the corrupt cops in his local police department, as well as the Mad Gear, Skull Cross, Thugs, Jersey Thugs, Punx, Glowheads, and numerous other gangs, as well as people, in wrestling rings, bar fights, and underground fight clubs, both before and after his professional wrestling career.
Buford Pusser - fought many professional wrestlers, may have also dabbled in occasional bar fights, as well as underground fight clubs, and fought the corrupt local police department, sheriff's department, Dixie Mafia and State Line Mafia.
Mike Haggar - fought corrupt cops in the police department where he lived (Edi E and Dave, among potentially others).
Buford Pusser - fought corrupt cops in both a local police department and a sheriff's department (James Dickey and several other corrupt cops and sheriff's deputies).
Mike Haggar - recruited people, both within his local government, as well as citizens, to help him fight the police corruption and gangs that plagued where he lived.
Buford Pusser - also recruited people, both within his sheriff's department, as well as civilians, to help him fight the police corruption and gangs that plagued where he lived.
Mike Haggar - has a penchant for using weapons in fights.
Buford Pusser - also had a penchant for using weapons in fights.
Mike Haggar - became a mayor.
Buford Pusser - became a constable, a police officer, and a sheriff, then tried to run for a town mayor, and, presumably later, a county mayor, but was possibly assassinated before he could run for the town mayor position.
Mike Haggar - lost a re-election bid (to become a mayor in his case).
Buford Pusser - lost a re-election bid (to become a sheriff in his case).
Yeah, there are a scary amount of parallels between both people. Also, yeah, Mike Haggar is a Yankee version of Buford Pusser.
You are yet another example of why i love the internet. The proliferation of many many different content creators did what the good 'ole networks never would --- have someone make a documentary on one of my cherished childhood memories: Final Fight !!
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it
Memories of going to the arcade on my summer holidays to play this. Love it.
Thank you very much,Glad you enjoyed it
The SNES version also omitted the industrial stage where you fight Rolento. The GBA version also had that same censorship of replacing Poison and Roxy with Billy and Sid. Another great thing about the GBA version besides being closer to the arcade version than the SNES is that you get to select different colors for your characters and play as the SFA3 versions of Guy and Cody. It's also nice that your characters have dialogues with bosses. And the Sega CD version is the only version to have voice acting.
I wasn't aware of the different colors for your fighters, thanks for the info
I think the sega cd version has a stage set on a bridge
Did you know the Final Fight series set between Street Fighter & Street Fighter Alpha?
Just so everyone knows, someone made an independent short film based on this game, "Broken Gear." MMA legend Don Frye plays Haggar!
That is so freaking awesome! I always thought there should be a movie on this game. It just looks good
Cool
Link please.
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I need to see this, holy crap
The sounds and music are also so awesome. And the Capcom graphics. Very special game.
It really is a classic
Both the Ghost n Goblins and Final Fight series are criminally underrated.
They are both classic games
don't understand this commentary, they are really famous at the inverse !
Final Fight was never underrated
Man, what a throwback! My buddy and I would play this in the arcade every chance we go when we were kids! Now? I have an arcade stick at home to play it on. Awesome documentary! Thanks for this! Subbed!
Thanks for the nice words, glad you enjoyed the video
Doing great work on these documentaries, revisiting these games has been a lot of fun. I´m glad I found your channel.
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5:57 Mr Burns: "Are you saying Boo or Boo-urns?"
Crowd: "Booooooo!"
LOL
Hans Moleman: I was saying boo-urns
humb1s3rvant winner!
All the people combined who are saying "Booooooo!" Are no match for Mr. Burn's glower power.
i remember when i met this beast for the first time, it was an arcade gallery near our high school when we used to go after a day of class, they barely used original machines, but instead custom arcade cabinets with very large 29" TVs with huge control buttoms, so image the size of these gigantic sprites, it was amazing, and it still is a fantastic game.
That sounds really cool
Very informative, and cleared up a lot of my vague understanding about Final Fight after reading about the game on Wikipedia. I remember reading somewhere else that Guy (while technically born in the U.S.) was actually raised from childhood in Japan (and in fact, he has not completely mastered fluent English). Supposedly after being trained from a very young age in Bushinryu ninjitsu, he returned to the land of his birth (Metro City U.S.A.) in order to sharpen his fighting skills by facing opponents with completely different fighting styles, where he met Cody. The game begins shortly after this point in time. The "Gay" reference is obviously a mistake in romanizing the spelling of his name from Japanese to English, but it raises the question of whether the proper romanji spelling of his name should be G-U-Y or G-A-I. The Japanese Kanji for "gai" (外) means "outside, external, foreign" (as in the word "gaijin", meaning a foreigner or outsider) so this makes some sort of sense if he was actually raised and educated in Japan, while the pronunciation is identical to "Guy" in English. In the game he is called Guy (i.e., gai) since he is foreign, or from outside Metro City.
Thank you for the nice words. I was just kidding about guy being gay. Thank you for the rest of the information though, I never knew any of guys back story.
That's the cool thing about linguistics. Good research sir.
They actually made a version with Guy as the main character. All versions of this game are 🔥🔥. Great video Pat
Thank you very much :-)
Bro your taking me right back to my childhood with your documentaries... fantastic job my friend. Thank you!!
Thank you very much for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the video
I was playing this the other evening on PS4 with a friend (it's part of a pack called the Capcom Beat em up Bundle with 6 other brawlers) and it's still as playable today. Some of the characters are really cheap (Rolando for example) but what was interesting was the similarities to some of the streets of Rage characters, particularly Signal. Awesome episode by the way.
The game is 30 years old and is still extremely playable today just like you said, that's a sign of good game design
A true arcade classic. The SNES port was a little week. But the Sega CD version was great. Now I’m playing it on the Switch with the other Capcom beat em ups.
Sega CD was good but the lack of colors through me off.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries still is the best version arcade aside.
Awesome video. I like your rapid fire style and subtle humor. Thank you so much!
Thank you very much,I appreciate the nice words :-)
Pure gold! Again sir, your videos are so informative and enjoyable to watch! 👍
I don't know how I missed this comment but thank you so much for the nice words. I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Love the format, with all the ports at the end. I subscribe!!
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I'm trying rescue my kidnapped daughter/girlfriend
maybe this car knows where she is...
LOL
@matt fahringer LOL
Yes. the Sega CD version was the best vs the other home consoles.
The only thing that distracted me from the Sega CD version was the colors. Everything else was top shelf
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries agreed. The Sega CD was cool at the time, but so overpriced and seconding the fact that your still stuck with the Genesis color palette. I remember thinking the turbo grafx and turboduo cd games looked more colorful then the Sega CD buy far.
Really enjoying these documentaries about great classic video games. Grwat job keep em coming.
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Brilliantly well done videos informative and funny been watching your channel recently and you have done so many games from my childhood and also shown the Amstrad versions which i didnt even think you had in the usa? Loved my Amstrad back in the day and would love to see you do a video of the multiplatform classic..Myth: history in the making and also Last Ninja 2? Anyway just some suggestions keep up the good work you’ve got yourself a subscriber in me. P.S your voice sounds like the late great actor Robert Forster.
love these vids. so much lovely info. feel like im really learning yet enjoying them so much. Really amazing stuff great Job
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I remember it was 1990 when i first seen this classic in the kilmarnock arcade in ayrshire, Scotland. I used to play crime fighters which is a nice game aswell.. But when i seen ff my eyes couldn't believe the giant characters on thec25inch monitor and the great attract mode and thumping music.. I honestly was blown away.. Its the best scrolling beat em up in the arcade of all time.. I think anyway. I love street of rage on the megadrive and it comes a very close second to this arcade masterpiece..
I think is my favorite beat him up of all time as well
This was one of my favorite SNES games. Thanks for reminding me of how great it really was!
I get why people are so negative towards it. Sure it's missing the two player option and a couple of levels but is still a great conversion especially back in 1991
Yo Pat!! Good job!!! Final Fight actually is my all time favorite game!! It's always a great pleasure to pop by these in-depth videos about arcade legends!! Keep up the good work 😁😁
Also, I've finally managed to beat this game with 7 credits!! Hopefully, I'll improve my gaming!!
Additionally, I didn't know about the history behind Guy's name (apart from the reference to Guy Picciotto from the band Fugazi)
This Is in my top 5 árcades best games ever !
Excellent video as always man! Great stuff
Thank you very much.
I'm really glad I bought this Arcade1Up last Spring....the first time I played through it I was blown away by how much "adult" content was in the game.....very cool
It's one of my favorite brawlers of all time
Same here@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
Finally!!!! 10 out of 10 for this one Patman!
Finally? You mean as in I finally did this video?
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Yo Pat, maybe he was meaning that we were all waiting for this video and it's a real pleasure to watch 😁✌️
@@davideselvi3906 Yeah. That's the ticket!
Another excellent and informative video. Now we have Final Fight on the Capcom Beat Em Up Collection (one of many excellent Capcom beat em ups on the collection) for Nintendo Switch which is totally awesome, especially in the many different ways you can play multiplayer. You can play local couch coop on the Big screen when docked, can play in tabletop mode, can also play local wireless between multiple Switches, and can also play online.
Thank you very much. The switch version is excellent and I highly recommended
Yes. I wish more people had the Beat em up collection. Most of the time when I go to the online multiplayer I just get tumbleweed blowing across my screen.
@@kyoku1982 LOL, you would think more people would have that and be playing online
Love your videos. This was really interesting to watch.
Thank you very much
love your channel keep up the good work
Thank you very much
Great video as always!
Another awesome documentary of my top 5 favorite action arcade game of the late 80's. I still own Finals Fight for the SNES and its sequels. But the arcade version with Guy is superb in everyway. I subscribed to your channel. If you're on Facebook, let me know.
Final Fight 3 is my jam. Those summer season was a blast!
I remember this in the arcades when I was in my early teens.
So do I it's a classic
Another great vid on a great game my best bud and I spent a great deal of time playing. Can't remember if it was Super Ninturdo or Sega CD - as he was the true gamer he had most systems and 2-3 stayed on his gaming table.
As a huge wrestling fan I HAD to play as Haggar and be the Inaugural Mayor of Suplex City. Lol Yessir, music, comics and rasslin', that's me!
Congrats on all your perfect 300 games in bowling!!! Meant to say that during Hx of Batman comment...ooops! Highest I ever got was around 250-ish. I bow to your game knowledge, passion and bowling superiority! 👍👍👍
Thank you so much for the kind words. If you guys are playing two player on final fight and it had to be the Sega CD version. Since I'm a huge wrestling fan to I always played as HagarAs well :-)
250 is still a heck of a great game.
Another great upload!
Thank you very much
Hey Pat, I am still rewatching your vids!!! Had to take a break due to warmer temps and broken A/C!!! We are around the same age, and I am a partial amputee!!! Lost Big toe and part of my foot due to a bad infection!!! You are an inspiration and I love your vids!!! Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks a lot my friend. Sorry to hear about that, hopefully you are doing better now. Thanks a lot :-)
One of the greatest games ever. Well now with the renamed to Hugo character in SF4 they've clearly made the link to Andre the Giant a thing now. His intro thingy is based on Andre's match with Hulk Hogan, so he may not originally have been based on Andre, but Capcom have went down that road now for sure. Really like Poison just from a design aspect, she just looks so fucking cool and badass. Specially in SF4. Damned is also so iconic. It's a wonder he didn't get into SF too. Also the Sharp 68000 wasn't just a development machine. Capcom liked it so much they BASED the CPS system on it. So was very similar. Hence things run pretty much the same. Shame it never got a PROPER sequel that was worthy of the first game :( A new Final Fight game could make for a great mobile game too, not a fan of those much, but beat-em-ups do work well with there simple controls and graphics. Hey Streets of Rage 4 is coming so maybe will spark a little re-birth of the classic beat-em-up and Capcom might jump on board! We can hope!
Thanks for the tip
I remember being blown away as a kid the first time I saw Final Fight at an arcade in 1989 or 1990. The graphics and animations were head and shoulders above the rest, and remain excellent even by current standards. The gameplay was absolutely astounding. Well done Capcom 👍👍👍
I still have the Sega CD version. It can be played as a music CD (for the soundtrack). Random SEGA CD's can be played like that (some include voice sound bytes).
the same can be donde with the saturn.
@@Deathtank75 Cool. Good to know. I also extracted and burned some PS1 games music to CD Gekido and Pac Man World to be specific. I'm guessing those game discs can be played the same way as Sega's.
@@WarriorSmurf yeah I did the same with various Sega games like Albert odyssey, silhouette mirage, quake, etc.
Looked like a KWQC news clip there for a moment near the beginning. Cool.
Good eyeballs my friend. That's a shot of me bowling that was broadcast on our Channel 6 news.
What a coincidence you mention bowling in your video, as the first time I played Final Fight was in a bowling alley when it first came out.
It was mine as well my friend
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Aw, thanks for calling me that, my dude. Your videos kick so much ass. Glad a friend of mine sent me one of your videos. I've been hooked ever since.
Amazing documentary... had to come back and watch a third time! 👍
Awesome, thank you!
In 2004 I was watching Godzilla: Final Wars & when I saw Captain Gordon in the movie I stood up and yelled, That's HAGGAR!!! Even the title had FINAL in it, I knew who they were basing that character from Final Fight! When ever I play Final Fight I am always Haggar when I first saw he could Pile Driver his opponents I was hooked! I have the GBA Version and I'm glade you gave it high praises as i truly do love that game! Just watching this video makes me want to break out my GBA & drop kick some baddies! Thanks for another awesome video Patman!
Never have seen the movie but it's entirely possible
Final Fight was also featured in the arcade compilation, Capcom Classics Collection for PS2 & original Xbox. It's also worth noting that Mike Haggar made an appearance in another Capcom game: Saturday Night Slam Masters. Soddom & Guy first appeared in Street Fighter Alpha, Rolento first appeared in Street Fighter Alpha 2, & Cody appeared in Street Fighter Alpha 3.
Thanks for the tip
Guy, Sodom, and Rolent first appeared in Final Fight long before SFA and SFA2
Your channel is awesome. I love this game.
Thank you 👍
I still remember like it was yestardy I was young walked into my arcade place something just draws me to this final arcade machine and that's it I was hooked years later I purchased on mega cd but was never happy arcade ruled
It was fantastic, and definitely a classic
Great Documentary, The Amiga version did support two buttons providing you had a joystick with A & B buttons or you could use a Sega Megadrive/Genesis controller.
Thank you, it supported to button controllers but finding A game to take advantage of it Were few and far between
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries no problem, a few games on the Amiga took advantage of two buttons, of course with the option of the keyboard if you didn't.
Cool game back in the day, played it at the arcade everytime I went, I even had it for Sega Cd, which didn’t last long since Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat was right around the corner.
The Sega CD version was probably the best one out thereAside from the lack of colors
Wait. Hol' up. A PER-FECT 300 GAME? You're "very first" perfect 300 game. Implying that you have bowled a perfect game more than once. Well, well, my friend, that is quite the accomplishment. Cheers! Now, I wonder if you have a favorite console or arcade bowling game? Silver Strike for Me! You've got some sweet retro gaming docs. Another great job here with Final Fight. Thanks for your time and effort. Keep 'em coming!
Yes, I've been bowling since I was about three years old. I've actually had about 15 perfect 300 games. Thanks for the kind words.
I don't really have a favorite console. I've been playing games since the black-and-white arcade games back in 1976 with everything since then. Maybe the super Nintendo or the original Nintendo I guess. My favorite arcade bowling game would have to be silver strike. The controls are a bit tricky but it's a lot of fun to play.
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OMG they even did it on the Commodore 64. Wow. ha ha ha. I loved this game. i shoved so many quarters into it. Great video man.
Thank you very much. Glad you liked it
"only in japan" i see what you did there
LOL, someone finally got it :-)
Nice - The Warriors reference - what a great film!.
It sure is, any chance I can reference it I will :-)
Great one! I really enjoyed it. Can you do SImCity next? They shared an unreleased SimCity rom for Christmas and it's SimCity for NES. SimCity has such an amazing history.
Not next, because I already have four games on the list but I will put it on
One of my favorites of all time. One of the only games I never get tired of constant button mashing.
It's probably my all-time favoritE beat them up
cool video. i was introduced to final fight on my Sega cd. Final Fight, Streets of Rage, and Combatribes hold a special place in my gameing memory
Thank you, those are all classic games
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries hey not to bug you, but have you ever played sunset riders 1 or 2? co op games. lots of fun but im not sure if it had a big fan base or people remember
number 2 was still at skateland when i was a kid i played it everytime i went.
@@TomTom-tz7zf Oh absolutely, that was a great game. "Bury me with my money" :-)
Believe what you want... "Andore" was absolutely based off of Andre the giant in my eyes. That's like saying "Hugo" isn't another version of Andre the giant. Preposterous.
the sprites are so well done
Yes and animated quite nicely
This vid earned you a sub my friend 👍🏾
That's great, thank you very much. Welcome aboard
well in-depth documentary on final fight
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could never get past stage 2 as a kid, but now that I'm much older and familiar with the mechanics, I can't stop playing it.
Dude, you rolling a 300? That’s awesome!
Thanks, excellent nickname
I've only had a NES clone back in the early to mid 90s, so Mighty Final Fight is the only Final Fight game I came to play. And boy I still have warm memories of my Chibi Hagger beatin' 'em up!
That was a great little game
Chung Li from Street fighter is also seen in the background of 1 of the Final fight games. Guy is also a playable character in SF Alpha
Fantastic game. I try to beat this without continues and just can't.
I can be there, I can only make it to the third stage on one credit
It took me about 200 attempts on MAME before I finally completed Final Fight with one credit. ;*D It took me about 50 or so to complete cadillacs and dinosaurs with one credit.
I found it easy, and even easier the more players added.....
I wonder how far you can get without using a credit?
@@keiranninjaspirit ITS A SECRET TO EVERYBODY......
Loved this game! Had the Sega CD version (my first purchase for the system) and really got into the soundtrack.
It was fantastic on the Sega CD
I have always thought/wondered if this game had any influence from the 1984 movie Streets of Fire. After all, in that movie: the main character is named Cody, in the movie Cody wears the suspenders that Haggar in the game wears (more or less), the movie is about a guy rescuing a girl who was kidnapped by a street gang, and some of the costumes worn by the enemies in the movie (such as the Bred/Dug characters) have some costume similarities with some of the Bombers from the movie. I have no doubt there were many influences, and I've never seen an official connection with this game and the movie Streets of Fire, but I've always wondered about it, and every time I watch the movie again I'm convinced that the developers of this game must have been inspired partially by this movie.
I have read that was influenced by it. I didn't know this until after the video was made though otherwise it would've included it
I'm a huge fan of beat em ups and this particular game has always been my all time favorite
I think it's my all-time favorite as well
Niiice! Love this. Especially after watching the Anime 'Hi Score Girl' on Netflix. I'm eager to play this again.
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it
funny thing that no one mentions is that the word DICK is plastered on the doors in almost every version.
LOL, I miss that one. Good call
Perhaps, a reference to the "sexy ladies" Roxy & Poison, since they are "okama". 😘
Thanks, all that information is just fantastic to know now.....
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One of the best beat em ups, EVAH! 👌😉✨💕🇵🇭
I think it's right up there with double Dragon, probably better since there's no slowdown
I got the Sega CD version when it was released still the best home port.
The best home port released in North America and Europe. The X68000 Was the best home version back in the day. But like I said, the computer cost about $6000 :-)
This was my favourite arcade game. I bought the SNES version, was okay but was not as good. Then in summer 2007 I bought an original arcade, complete with basic art graphics on it.
It has not been used much in the past 5 years to be fair, but remains one of my most prized possessions.
Now sitting with a motor cycle cover sitting on it and in the garage, I am awaiting the time when it will make a reappearance.
That's awesome, I always wanted to own an original cabinet
Never have I been more compelled to measure the speed of a turtle fart
LOL, comment of the day :-)
Great stuff
Thank you so much
Great stuff.
Thank you very much, glad you're enjoying it
first played this on SNES.. loved the hell out of this game. Always enjoyed playing as Hagar.. i learned how to maximize the hits per enemy be4 they get knocked over.. that's one of the main things i remembered doing. As i get older i realize how few ppl knew abt this game.. i didn't know that at the time..thought it was classic and still do.
The SNES version was not just missing Guy. There were also other stages that were missing. I seem to recall there being 2 that were missing, though they are a little hazy in my memory. There was a sort of industrial zone where there were fire floors and stuff and there was another stage that had an elevator going up and the boss, Rolento, of the stage would climb around and chuck grenades at you in the elevator or something like that.
As said in this video, in this game, many of the characters are named after musical references. Roxy was named for the band Roxy Music, Poison was named for the band Poison. They were replaced by Billy and Sid (might be getting spelling wrong from game) who, if memory serves, were named after Billy Idol and Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols. The boss Abigail was made up with face paint and named Abigail as a nod to King Diamond, who wore face paint and had a popular song called Abigail. There is also Axel and Slash as a nod to the members of Guns n Roses. I can't remember any others off the top of my head, but there are a few.
I went into my local arcades and soon as I seen this game over was hooked also got to mention ninja turtles man there was big lines outside to play turtles and mortal kombat street fighter 2 that's the reason I never did any good in school days in the 90s
Oh yeah, first time I played this baby I was hooked as well
It's nice to know that Poison & Hugo got new roles in Street Fighter 4 & 5.
Yes
Played this in Rhyl, Wales around 1991. The cabinet next to it was Aliens.
I loved this genre growing up. I played this game in the arcade quite extensively. I remember Sega's answer with Streets of Rage. By 1991, I had both SOR for my Genesis and Final Fight for my Snes. I preferred SOR even though the graphics were not as sharp. Of course that all changed in 1992 with the release of SOR2. Everything about the second Streets of Rage was absolutely mind blowing. The sound, graphics, gameplay, and of course superior crowd control made SOR2 the best in the genre.
Street the rage series is really good but I still prefer final fight
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Final Fight was truly something but at least to me it was short in two areas.
1. The ability to chain attacks that essentially controls the crowds. Nothing is as smooth to me as SOR2. It you're good enough, ypu can roll into every enemy in the first two games in almost in a rythm.
2. The move sets for each character IN SOR 2 was truly different and each character felt genuine and unique. The second game is pure nirvana as you strip enemy after entemy unscathed on the hardest setting.
I tried Mighty Final Fight once. I had this GBA cart called Capcom Mini Classics that had it as well as the NES versions of Bionic Commando and Strider. I played those two alot more.
I thought it was a solid title
This was my all time favorite beat 'em up!
I think it's my favorite as well
This was my go-to in the arcade.
It was for me as well
I love this game!!! Use to play it at the near by Market:) snes port was ok but was missing a few things from the arcade but still fun to play. The last 2 sequels on snes were great!
I agree, graphically the super Nintendo version was pretty close to the arcade It's just too bad it was missing so many features
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries i definitely agree and the thing I didn't like too was that if you threw the enemy into the telephone booth it wouldn't smash like in the arcade. disappointing :(
Was playing this online MAME a few years ago, and on the car bonus stage, as the badguy came on to say the "Oh my god!" my friend shouted out on the Mic , "MY CHILDREN WERE IN THAT CAR!"
StreetWise was very good in my opinion. I play that game endlessly and like how it started off as a fighting game and turn into some type of post apocalyptic drug game. It gave you something different with a good story line. I actually was waiting on part 2 of the way part 1 end but now I see why I never happened.
I can recall playing it a few times and enjoying it
@PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries The lady you're talking about was Poison who is a newhalf.
Thanks for the info
I had this one on the sega CD. What an awesome game!
It was really good I just wish the colors were better
Nice work. The Streets of Rage series, as much as I love it, was heavily inspired by FFight.
Thank you, yes streets of rage is on the list so I will get to it at some point
Cool. Many fans including myself kept writing to Sega to make SOR4, and they finally did through another developer, Lizard Cube. Turned out to be an awesome game.
It was "Poison" not Roxy who was the subject of controversey.
I have always loved the Final Fight games, but you did get one thing incorrect, PatMan. Poison was the new half character, not Roxy.
I loved Final Fight on my GBA
It was excellent on their
Vehicle at 3:20 looks just like the Street Fighter 2 bonus round!
Yes, it was made by capcom as well