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Narrative
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Set in the same universe as Street Fighter, and considered by many to be its cousin series, Final Fight became one of the most famous and successful arcade games of the 1990s. Many people credit the game with inventing the beat-em-up genre, due to the massive quantity of so-called 'Final Fight Clones' that followed after the game's success. (However, Final Fight was preceded by titles such as Kung Fu Master, the early Kunio-kun games, and of course Double Dragon.)
In the first game, the Mad Gear gang kidnaps Jessica, the daughter of Mike Haggar, former pro wrestler and current mayor, because Haggar would not turn a blind eye to their dominance of the city's underworld, as the previous mayor had. Haggar teams up with Jessica's street punk boyfriend Cody, and a ninja sworn to fight evil known as Guy, so that they can save the city and Jessica. The game has life meters not only for the heroes, but also for the villains.
The game's development contains some interesting titbits: The bosses requested a sequel to Street Fighter (remember, this was way before Street Fighter II) and what happened next depends on which Street Fighter creator you asked - Okamoto basicly says that the genre was changed after some market research, while Funamizu, the hater of sequels, says that they made Final Fight for the hell of it.
The game spawned two sequels for the Super NES, and a 3-D fighting game for the Sega Saturn. Four of the series' characters also appeared as playable characters in the Street Fighter Alpha series, and another appeared in Capcom vs. SNK 2. And then there is the sequel Streetwise which is unwanted by some.
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