Final Fight (Arcade) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Capcom's 1989 arcade beat 'em up, Final Fight.

Played through on the machine's default settings as Haggar. I also got the bonus credit roll at the end.

Final Fight is one of my all time favorite games, and absolutely my favorite beat 'em up - sorry Streets of Rage 2, but you only manage a firm second place in my book.

What is there to say about a classic like Final Fight that hasn't been said a million times before? It looked and sounded impossibly good for a 1989 release with its massive characters and punchy, rock-driven soundtrack, and its game play was what I tend to think makes it the first truly "modern" game of the genre. The basic moves were nothing new or special, but the animation flowed with the controls and gave reliable feedback as you were attacking - finally! It was a huge step up from older games like Double Dragon where the lack of fluidity (especially in transition animations) made timing often seem a random matter of luck.

And I don't remember another beat 'em up before giving each individual character a name and a life bar. Nice touch!

It might not have gotten quite the treatment it deserved when it was ported to the SNES, but the arcade version of Final Fight is hard to top, and it was one helluva note for Capcom to finish the eighties on.
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[shinkazama]

Over 30 years later, such an awesome game!

[yusakug]

This was originally going to be called Street Fighter '89. I'm glad Capcom decided to make it its own unique franchise.

[NintendoComplete]

Capcom chose one helluva way to see off the 1980s with this classic brawler - few games manage to define both a genre and an era as well as Final Fight did.

[homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl]

I had a Capcom classics game disk that had this game and so many others on it when I was a little kid, I remember me and my older brother would always play it and he'd play Haggar every time. Good stuff.

[leonardxu]

Would have been an epic day as a kid if I could watch someone finishing the game in front of me! Thanks for sharing!! 👍

[MrNastyBlasty]

Final fight, One of the most iconic titles I have ever played, absolutely amazing, going to the arcades, insert those coins and having the crowd around you waiting to play next, and now we have it all at home on our pcs trying to make these amazing games alive.
Retro long live my brother
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[nyy]

Going through endless stacks of quarters at the arcade playing this...I want my childhood back.

[tuxysmagicaljukebox]

Probably the best soundtrack ever for a Capcom game. Plus, it was the combined effort of several talented people, not just one person.

Track Credits:

Intro-Manami Matsumae
Coin Insert Noise-Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
Player Select-Harumi Fujita
Round 1 Start-Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
Round 1 Part 1 & 3/Round 2 Part 1/Round 6 Part 1-Manami Matsumae
Round 1 Part 2-Manami Matsumae
Round Clear-Manami Matsumae
Round 2 Part 1 & 2/Round 6 Part 3-Junko Tamiya
Round 2 Part 3 & 4-Junko Tamiya
Bonus Stage-Manami Matsumae
Round 3 Part 2 & 3-Manami Matsumae
Round 4 Part 1-Yasuaki Fujita
Round 4 Part 2/Round 6 Part 2-Hiromitsu Takaoka
Round 5 Part 1-Manami Matsumae
Round 5 Part 2-Yoko Shimomura
Round 5 Part 3/Round 6 Part 4-Toshihiko Horiyama
All Round Clear-Harumi Fujita
Ending-Hiromitsu Takaoka
Continue Screen-Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
Game Over-Yoshihiro Sakaguchi

That's a total of 7 people who did the classic tracks for this classic game!

[tbwpf]

I remember everyone used to pick Haggar. They had this at the arcade in the bowling alley by my house. We used to pump quarters into that thing all day. There would be a crowd of kids standing around watching my brothers and I play it. Then they had "Bad Dudes". 80's era beat em ups were the best.

[clivebond]

The graphics on this game are outstanding for a 1989 game, in 1986 Outrun set the bar and then three years Final fight raised it even higher.

[atroise]

I never get sick of this game, for me the best version

[rcblazer]

Always love coming back to this game and pile driving punks as Mayor Haggar!

[brandonfouts]

great feelings of nestalgia ....i remember playing this at bowling alley

[shevanje]

35 years ago I inserted my first coin... still playing.... AWESOME GAME

[RivingtonAve]

This game is just magical, the sound on the Arcade version is just so fitting to the game.

[dozer]

My local pizza place had this arcade game and the owner was my neighbor everytime I came by the pizza place he would open it up and hit the quarter receiver a bunch of times and let me play free. I loved this game so much lol

[thotran-ycku]

My favourite fight game ever grew up with this. Still playing it on evercade

[davanime]

One Of My Favorite Video Games Of All Time

[JayBird-ky]

If they made an anime of this, J.K Simmons would be right on with Mike Haggar.

[Stubbla]

Still have not played this, I might download it. looks a lot like Streets Of Rage, and of that I am a big fan