What's the all time best beat em up?

I say these are the best in my opinion: TMNT Arcade games, the Simpsons arcade, the old 80's XMEN (not children of the atom), or fighting force. What are some others?

I put my vote behind smash bros. but for classics, you can't go wrong with street fighter

That SNES game where you play as either Spiderman or Venom and you beat up all these street thugs.

I believe it's Maximum Carnage or some other game.

Can't go wrong with Super Smash Bros Melee.

Yeah, I do remeber Maximum Carnage. I gotta admit I've never played Smash Bros, what is it? I thought it was a figthing game more than a beat em up. I mean the side-scrolling games where it's wave after wave of enemies. In that case I also gotta nominate Contra, that was hard as hell though.

Streets of Rage... and Gekido

havent found a beat-em-up to surpass those since their arrival

Originally posted by headrek1
Yeah, I do remeber Maximum Carnage. I gotta admit I've never played Smash Bros, what is it? I thought it was a figthing game more than a beat em up. I mean the side-scrolling games where it's wave after wave of enemies. In that case I also gotta nominate Contra, that was hard as hell though.

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Gekido... it also had a 4player vs mode

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SSBM and Power Stone 2.

The Punisher. Not the new one, but the old arcade game.

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Spiderman and Venom: Seperation Anxiety was an awesome game because you could play as Venom the whole time. By the way, it's the sequel to Spiderman an Venom: Maximum Carnage.

Originally posted by Yoshi Fanatic
Spiderman and Venom: Seperation Anxiety was an awesome game because you could play as Venom the whole time. By the way, it's the sequel to Spiderman an Venom: Maximum Carnage.

I didn't know the name so I just called it Maximum Carnage.

Separation Anxiety was pretty awesome. The first stage is somewhere on the streets at night I think.

TMNT arcade.

A TMNT game on the SNES had similar gameplay to Separation Anxiety. It was really fun to play.

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Originally posted by SaTsuJiN
Streets of Rage... and Gekido

havent found a beat-em-up to surpass those since their arrival

Gekido and Fighting Force 1 get my vote for best beat 'em ups.

Fighting Force 2, is possibly the worst however. I mean....they took out the multiplayer in the 2nd one. What the **** were they thinking?

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