Beat 'em up
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Beat 'em ups are games where you walk along the stage fighting bad guys. Usually, it will take several hits before the enemies are beaten and disappear. It is typically considered a sub genre of action games.
[edit] 2D Beat 'em ups
Originally, these games were 2D side-scrollers. These games usually required you to beat the enemies on screen before being able to continue scrolling to the next one. Some of theses games had platforming elements. These games were some of the most popular games in the arcades. Many of the beat up games were eventually ported into home consoles such as Genesis, Snes with titles as Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Batman Returns, to name a few. Many of the popular one in the arcades were TMNT, The Simpsons, X-men.
[edit] 3D Beat 'em ups
With the advent of 3D, beat 'em ups games evolved. These games are more combat focus instead of the 2D platforming elements of some 2D beat 'em ups. This type of beat 'em up suffers from a bad camera and poor hit detection. Squaresoft (Now Square Enix) released the game,The Bouncer for the Playstation 2 had received poor reviews due to the lackluster gameplay.
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