Streets of Rage

Streets of Rage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up released by Sega in 1991. The game is known as Bare Knuckle in Japan. It is the first part of the Streets of Rage series, a trilogy of games released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.The game was released when Nintendo's SNES was imminent, and Sega needed exclusive games to rival the SNES. They needed a game similar to Capcom's Final Fight, a successful and popular arcade game. As such, Streets of Rage is very similar to Final Fight. A key selling points was that it supported 2 players, a feature omitted from the SNES port of Final Fight.
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