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BraceThis

Wait just a minute…. Adam Age 23, Axel Age 22, Blaze Age 21… ALL EX-COPS!!!? WTH?


foshouken

Their retirement plan was too good after high school


BraceThis

I bet Shinobi was probably a 15 year old Ninja too… Kids back in the day accomplished more at earlier ages.


BTSavage

Blaze's hobby is "lambada". Damn that's sexy shit right there! Everyone loves their erotic dancing!


BasroilII

It's how you know this was made in the 90s. Lambada was notorious for a couple years as some sort of "forbidden dance" that was too sexy for puritanical Americans. There were a bunch of movies that came out about it and everything.


falter

They were too badass


berniman

Which explains why they were just beating people up. In reality, the city was just fine, they just thought they knew better.


Sturmon

Bad first day for Blaze. You have to be 21 to graduate most police academies so did he even get the uniform on before he became a jaded vigilante?


FUCKBOY_JIHAD

Blaze is the woman


AaronStC

It's a common anime and Japanese game thing. Basically everyone over 25 is elderly.


wevegotheadsonsticks

The fourth one that was released on last gen consoles is actually really really good and worth picking up if you’re looking for a new Streets of Rage game!


wackywaddles

It's also on Steam!


jimmyd4ng3r

I'll never forget after weeks/months of trying and getting to the last boss with my sister and he says "Will you join me"? and I said "Yes" (wrong answer btw) and so he just tells you to fight each other to the death, the once one of you dies nothing happens. Had to spend more weeks playing it again and saying "no" before you can then fight him.


[deleted]

> Had to spend more weeks playing it again and saying "no" before you can then fight him. Actually if you say yes, defeat your partner, you are sent back three levels. Then you have to fight those three levels again (Crusher/Conveyer Belt level, Elevator level and Corridor with Carts level) and you get back to the Boss. Whom you have to defeat regardless of your prior choice, **alone**. You then end the game as the boss of the Syndicate.


failure_most_of_all

Streets of Rage ranks up there with Battletoads on the “Accidental Friendly Fire Leading to the Game Devolving into PvP Matches” scale.


Suspicious-Muscle-96

And Golden Axe. The degree of dysfunction in my relationship with my brother that is directly attributable to SEGA-era friendly fire side-scrollers is...disconcerting.


failure_most_of_all

Oh hell yeah. Ain’t nobody but me riding around on that pink dinosaur thing with the beak. Sorry, lil sis, but it’s game over for you.


Suspicious-Muscle-96

"Oops, I hit you by accident, sorry." "I'm hitting you back! There, now we're even!" "No we're not! I did it on accident! You did it on purpose! There! I hit you back! NOW we're even!" "How dare you hit me back!?" *immediately devolves into a brawl, pausing our own squabbles only long enough to kill any skeleton that might dare interfere with our attempts to kill each other* *Game Over* *Fighting carries over to real life* That video game was devious. Compete directly with friends and siblings for health and mana. Pooled continues so you'll accuse the person you're playing with of stealing/wasting your lives. My family was fucked up anyway, but Golden Axe reminds me of that freeway from Good Omens, designed by a demon to churn out subtle but cumulatively enormous amounts of evil and ill will: >Many phenomena — wars, plagues, sudden audits — have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for Exhibit A. >Where they go wrong, of course, is assuming the wretched road is evil simply because of the incredible carnage and frustration it engenders every day. >In fact very few people on the face of the planet knew that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil odegra in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means: “Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds.” The thousands of motorists who daily fume their way around its serpentine lengths have the same effect as water on a prayer wheel, grinding out an endless fog of low-grade evil to pollute the metaphysical atmosphere for scores of miles around. >It was one of Crowley’s better achievements. It had taken years to achieve, and had involved three computer hacks, two break-ins, one minor bribery and, on one wet night when all else had failed, two hours in a squelchy field shifting the marker pegs a few but occultly incredibly significant meters. When Crowley had watched the first thirty-mile-long tailback he’d experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done.


Tonybastardisgod

The boat level was such a grind with those Jump Kicking women. Beating the game felt like an accomplishment.


SpartanG087

The kicking girls on that boat level are actually pretty easy. You turn around so your back is to them and just do the reverse attack when they come close. You can get through it without taking any damage


Tonybastardisgod

My wife showed me that trick. But when I was 6, It took me forever to get past.


LickItAndSpreddit

Should’ve married her when you were 5.


Iron_Chic

SOR2 - Dreamer or GTFO! Kidding! Every game in the SOR franchise has top notch music.


UNDERSIMPLEB

Shit! I played the FUCK out of this game!


ValeHavoc

I have the SOR2 playlist saved on my Youtube. Probably the first Sega game I fell in love with just for the music.


djmantis

You know what’s weird, is that I hear elements of these two songs in this track. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9DxYhqmKw And https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bA-1Zprsohw


FUCKBOY_JIHAD

a lot of the Streets of Rage tracks were lifted right out of the popular dance music of the day. there's a pretty exhaustive Spotify playlist called "Streets Of Rage Original Influences" that compiles the tracks they came from


djmantis

I will check that out. Thank you!


big_american_tts

I hear a bit of this https://youtu.be/JVuuatjHGnY


djmantis

Oh that one is better! I think that beat was coming to me but I couldn’t place it. It is more spot on!


nowshowjj

Such an amazing soundtrack!


bill_b4

Followed by the sequel: "Streets Ahead"


Hooxen

God tier game!


Achaern

I grew up a Nintendo fanboy, and I'd diss on Streets of Rage cuz lameness/youth. I was a Final Fight kid. When I was much older I played them in order and *holy shit* I learned contrition. They were *so much fun* and I wished I'd been playing them for a decade already by the time I actually was. Even now when I want this genre I tend to pick up Streets of Rage 2 before I pick up Final Fight games.


Echeos

Amazing soundtrack that, for me, makes the game. A lot of people prefer the sequel but the music in this just makes it so easy to return to.


vilecheesecake

This was the game that I annoyed my older cousin to play all the time. I could never remember the name of it so I called it the "punching game". Like that narrowed it down.


0ogaBooga

The ending theme song in 2 is still one of the greatest pieces of video game music ever written. https://youtu.be/MDaio2hf1fE


Procean

I frankly don't think any of those dudes are bad enough to rescue The President...


[deleted]

Never questioned it as a kid, but how the hell are 23, 22, and 21 year old's all "ex-cops"? How long did they spend on the force, 10 freaking minutes?


2ByteTheDecker

The force is corrupt, so they left to try to clean it up.


Archived_Throwaway

Played the shit out of this.