{"id":20121,"date":"2020-05-29T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20121"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T13:00:33","slug":"the-games-of-the-capcom-beat-em-up-bundle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/29\/the-games-of-the-capcom-beat-em-up-bundle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games of the Capcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don\u2019t know if it was because there was a Spring Sale, or if it was Golden Week in Japan, or maybe because of all the Coronavirus stuff.\u00a0 But there have been a BUNCH of games on sale lately.\u00a0 A few weeks ago, I got about five games on sale on PS4 for mostly less than ten bucks each!\u00a0 Most of them were arcade collections.\u00a0 Originally they were all 20 bucks, which isn\u2019t THAT bad anyway.\u00a0 But I feel that digital only collections like this are still too pricey at that amount.\u00a0 If they were physical copies yeah I\u2019d pay that.\u00a0 But since they were only digital I decided to wait for a sale.\u00a0 One of the games I got from that sale was the Capcom Beat \u2018Em Up Bundle, which comes with seven arcade classic co-op side scrolling beat \u2018em ups.\u00a0 There are also a bunch of neat artwork galleries in this game as well, plus you can save your games and even play them online!\u00a0 But since I like to talk about the games in these collections, let\u2019s do that with this one.\u00a0 In the coming weeks I\u2019ll talk about some of the other games I got on sale, too!<\/p>\n

Final Fight<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a lot of really good memories playing Final Fight with my best friend in arcades back in the day.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the first beat \u2018em up, but it\u2019s one of the first that really perfected it.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s aged very well, especially graphically.\u00a0 Sure it\u2019s very hard and cheap sometimes, but that\u2019s because it was designed to be an arcade game.\u00a0 That\u2019s why when they ported it to the SNES, it didn\u2019t fare as well. \u00a0You know I\u2019ve never played Final Fight 2 and 3 on the SNES?\u00a0 I\u2019d like to, but when they were out, I didn\u2019t want to play full price for them, and I don\u2019t remember seeing them in the local movie rental places.\u00a0 In the first game, I almost always pick Haggar.\u00a0 He\u2019s cool.\u00a0 The NES game Mighty Final Fight is really good, and the GBA port of the arcade has a few nice additions.\u00a0 So yeah, I like Final Fight pretty well.<\/p>\n

Captain Commando<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh man, I played this a ton at a gas station near my house when I was a kid.\u00a0 Yeah, gas stations used to have arcade machines in them.\u00a0 Technically this isn\u2019t as good as Final Fight, gameplay-wise.\u00a0 But boy it sure has style.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a kooky sci-fi comic book.\u00a0 You can play as Captain Commando, a ninja, a mummy, or my favorite: Baby Head.\u00a0 He\u2019s a baby riding inside a giant mech!\u00a0 One of the power-ups you can get is a mech you can ride in, so when you play as Baby Head, you\u2019re controlling a baby riding a mech, which is riding a bigger mech!\u00a0 How cool is that?\u00a0 You can also pick up rocket launchers and other guns for some long distance carnage.\u00a0 I also like the locations you fight in.\u00a0 They ditch dingy city slums for places like a futuristic museum, circus, and aquarium!\u00a0 I never played the SNES version but I sure did enjoy it in the arcade.<\/p>\n

The King of Dragons<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next couple of games on this list are medieval fantasy themed.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember seeing these games specifically in arcades, but I\u2019m sure I did, they probably just didn\u2019t stick out in my mind.\u00a0 It also doesn\u2019t help that Capcom also made a couple of beat \u2018em ups with the Dungeons and Dragons<\/strong><\/a> license, and if you showed me any of them, I couldn\u2019t tell you if that\u2019s what they were or not.\u00a0 But in this first one, you could pick from five characters, like a Fighter, Cleric, Elf, or Dwarf.\u00a0 I picked the dwarf because I liked how he bellowed out \u201cHOOOOOAAAA\u201d before battle.\u00a0 Only other notable thing is that this one was pretty long, like 20 stages!\u00a0 Granted the stages were short and a lot of the enemies and bosses were pallet swapped, but it still took longer to beat!\u00a0 You can level up your characters and get new weapons and shields, but I don\u2019t know if they really do anything.\u00a0 You still take the same amount of damage and dish out the same amount to enemies no matter what level and weapons you have, at least from what I could tell.<\/p>\n

Knights of the Round<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the other medieval themed game on here.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as interesting as King of Dragons, though, because in that other game you fought all sorts of fantasy creatures like dragons, skeletons, and more.\u00a0 But in this one you just fight other knights in armor all the time.\u00a0 You can choose to be Arthur, Lancelot, or Percaval.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how to spell that last name, but the arcade game wasn\u2019t sure either because they spelled it several different ways in it!\u00a0 I picked that last guy, though, because he used an axe and was really strong.\u00a0 Like in the last game, you can level up, which gives you more armor, but I couldn\u2019t tell that it did anything.\u00a0 The saving grace of this game is that you can ride a horse!\u00a0 It\u2019s funny to see the horse walk backwards, though!\u00a0 There was a SNES version of this, but I never played it.<\/p>\n

Warriors of Fate<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK technically this one is medieval themed as well, but it\u2019s medieval China themed, not European.\u00a0 So you pick from five Chinese fighter dudes and brawl other Chinese fighter dudes.\u00a0 And it\u2019s really not that interesting.\u00a0 You can still ride a horse like in the last game, so that\u2019s it\u2019s only saving grace.\u00a0 Capcom advertised that the last two games on this list were never seen in a collection before, but honestly, I don\u2019t remember this one either.\u00a0 I know I definitely don\u2019t remember seeing it in any arcade anyway.<\/p>\n

Armored Warriors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now this one\u2019s different!\u00a0 And very good because of it.\u00a0 I had never heard of this one before.\u00a0 You drive giant mechs and beat up other mechs and stomp on little guys on the ground (you even get an end level bonus for that).\u00a0 Instead of eating roast turkey on the floor, you pick up screwdrivers, wrenches, and oil to refill your health.\u00a0 And you can pick up items from defeated enemies to equip to your mech, too.\u00a0 Arms like drills, claws, and my favorite: laser swords!\u00a0 Also mobility options like tank treads or spider legs.\u00a0 And you get long distance attacks with guns like flamethrowers and missile launchers.\u00a0 If you\u2019re quick, you can re-pick them up after you die, so you can keep what you want for a long time.\u00a0 The music has a Mega Man X vibe to it, too.\u00a0 Very cool idea for a beat \u2018em up!<\/p>\n

Battle Circuit<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK I know they said this game was never released in the US before, but some of the characters look a little familiar to me at least.\u00a0 So I know I\u2019ve seen it, or at least references or cameos of it, somewhere before.\u00a0 I also read this was Capcom\u2019s last beat \u2018em up game in the arcade.\u00a0 Anyway, if you thought Captain Commando was weird, hold onto your seats for this one!\u00a0 Battle Circuit also has a kooky sci-fi storyline and setting, with intergalactic bounty hunters out to beat up space criminals for money.\u00a0 You\u2019ll fight a mad scientist named Dr. Saturn who drives a vehicle that looks like Dick Dastardly\u2019s Mean Machine from Wacky Races.\u00a0 And the characters you can play as include a yellow cat elf lady with her pet fox, a girl riding a giant pink ostrich, a plant creature, and two super hero dudes!\u00a0 The money you earn in each stage you can spend to buy new Street Fighter style moves for the next area, which will make things a lot easier if you can pull them off.\u00a0 Also, the stages are shorter but the boss battles are longer, making this one feel like a combination of a side scrolling beat \u2018em up and a one on one fighter.\u00a0 But it\u2019s worth playing multiple times just to try out all the crazy characters!<\/p>\n

And those are all the games.\u00a0 Let me know what you think in the comments section, and tell me your favorite Capcom beat \u2018em ups!\u00a0 In the coming weeks I\u2019ll write blogs about the other games I got on sale, which are the Konami game collections.\u00a0 There\u2019s the Arcade Classics, Contra, and Castlevania collections.\u00a0 So stay tuned for those later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n

Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session (PS4)<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK this is a totally different game that I got on sale, but I don\u2019t have enough words about it to write a full blog on, so I\u2019ll just tack it on here.\u00a0 It was only 15 bucks as opposed to 50, so that\u2019s why I got it.\u00a0 I\u2019m a big Taiko game fan, but I\u2019m not spending that much money on a digital only game that they didn\u2019t bother to translate anything but the text, and it has mostly J-Pop songs I\u2019ve never heard of.\u00a0 Not only that, but most of the good songs are paid DLC only and are $1.50 a pop, so no thank you.\u00a0 Because of that, I think the main game should\u2019ve always been 15 bucks!\u00a0 The new feature in this game is that in some of the songs, you can play against the computer, who will be represented by a special character.\u00a0 So you might go up against Pac-Man or Heiachi from Tekken, Hatsune Miku, Doraemon, or even Hello Kitty!\u00a0 When you win, you\u2019ll get a special doll of that character that you can place next to your drum guy when you play.\u00a0 And that\u2019s it.\u00a0 I\u2019m certainly glad I got this game on sale and didn\u2019t pay full price for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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