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Here’s three beat-em-up games Konami made that were more or less a series in and of themselves. First up is Crime Fighters, in a 4-part recording:

Several girls have been kidnapped by the city’s leading crime kingpin, and you need to go and rescue them. Along the way, you battle plenty of ridiculous looking punks and other mob enforcers. Many of the weapons can be lost instantly when struck by an enemy, so if you don’t want the pistols to go to waste, you’d better be strategic.

Then, we have Vendetta, a followup to this, in 4 recordings:

Here, we have a burg called Dead End City that’s overrun with the vermin of the Dead End Gang, whose only opposition are the Cobras. In retaliation, the criminals kidnap the female protege of one of the heroes to force them into action. It’s a pretty violent game, if you ask me, though if you’re expert at this, it’s not quite as hard as the previous game.

Then, we have the third followup, Violent Storm, in 3 recordings:

Three guys whose ladyfriend Sheena (a possible nod to the great Will Eisner’s jungle heroine) has been kidnapped by the city mob battle their way across town to rescue her from the sinister crime boss, who’s probably even more startling than the chief enemies of the other two games. This one is even more of a Final Fight style game than the other two, but like the other two, it looks like you can hit the enemies even when they’ve fallen to the ground. One thing that’s hard for me to tell though is if the two-button combination attack, if available here, reduces some of your life energy when you use it, but I think it certainly happens when you do it while standing. Unlike Final Fight and its clones by Capcom, this does not seem to have a timer, not even one that appears sporadically, so I wonder if it means that, if you stay in one place too long without enemies present, that something of the sort will come along after awhile to cause problems.

You can tell that this is definitely tongue-in-cheek with the kind of music it features on 2-3 of its stages, which certainly made me chuckle. This is decidedly the best of these three beat-ep-ups that Konami made, and is the most recommended.

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