Is Mighty Final Fight Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
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Stan Hansen's Lariat? You finally made a sports reference I understood! My years of watching these videos finally paid off!
Stan Hansen was the man. That lariat was something else.
@@kaiserrino8774 qqq. Idk why or how I posted this comment lol
LARIATOHHHHHHH
*sports entertainment
@@networktwentythree OSW reference?
It’s incredible that Capcom made an obscure Final Fight game on the NES,and it came after Final Fight came on the SNES. The gameplay and graphics looks awesome.
Masahiro Sakurai once stated that Kirby was released for the NES instead of SNES because his studio was already primed for NES development and the team already had a lot of know-how for the console at the time. They had a deadline to get another game out so they didn't want to have to setup SNES dev tools and lose out on time for learning SNES dev stuff.
He also mentioned that because a lot of NES gamers were already mature by that time (and new gamers would likely buy SNES instead) that Kirby was designed to have more elements for advanced gamers to take advantage of while still being relatively newbie-friendly. I would imagine Mighty Final Fight might also have a few treats for advanced players.
Not incredible at all, it still happens to this day. PS4 games are still coming out, and the time frame between the PS5 coming out to now and the SNES coming out to this game coming out aren't any different. It probably only took them so long as it was a pain trying to work out how to make it not suck on such poor hardware.
At this point the 16-bit machines, whilst fully established, more people still would have owned 8-bit systems, games ales were tailing off, but not enough for devs to withdraw support. Heck, they released game on PS2, a system released in 1999, in 2013.
I think you forgot to mention the coolest part of the level up system. Basically, finishing the enemies with harder attacks gives you more exp. So, a jump kick only gives 1, but if you do it with the 3rd hit of the knee bash grab, you get 6. Moreover, if you grab a health item with full health, you actually get a big chunk of exp instead. Really cool system that I wish more games had used.
This is one of the few ultra rare NES carts I own. Found it used at WalMart when they were still selling used NES stuff around 1999-2000 for $15. I had known from the internet, even back then, that Mighty Final Fight was a super rare cart, so I snagged it. It's still in my collection!
Walmart!? Ha, that's rad. I just remember when Hollywood video sold Sega Genesis games around that time.
My Dad found a copy at a thirft shop and randomly bought it for us on a whim in 2001 or 2002. He knows jack about gaming, so we lucked out that he bought it.
We only had a NES growing up so we usually went to flea markets and thrift shops back then getting NES games for $5 or so. So I have a good sized collection.
The MFF cartridge is missing part of the front sticker (came like that) but I still have it.
something you didn't note that I thought might be worth mentioning: Cody would eventually regain his Tornado Sweep projectile in Street Fighter 5 when his moveset was dramatically redesigned from past SFs. i had no idea until now that this game is where that came from
LMAO kids these days... Cute
@@callofmetals24 what do you mean...?
@@SSJDevin lol I'm just a fella that was a kid back then so I've been up on final fight and it's moves since it started. But I think it's awesome you have this energy for a great franchise..sorry if it sounded disrespectful homie 💯
@@callofmetals24 fair enough 👍
Best chanel on RUclips.
Ver much so.
No, the best GUCCI on RUclips.
Very true !
It’s definitely my no. 5.
I think Happiest Concole Gamer is the best but SnesDrunk is great.
I actually bought the cartridge 10 years ago for 5 bucks. So great value for money that was :)
Really great game!
Now it's 200$+ 😢
I'm looking forward to Mega Final Fight for the Sega Genesis.
Cody :
Tornado Sweep ( B + forward )
Tornado Upper ( hold B + forward + up )
Guy :
Tornado Kick ( B + forward )
Tornado Flash Kick ( B + forward + hold up )
Flying Kick ( jump + back + up + B )
* Flying Kick can be performed at Lv. 1
* Flying Kick must be performed precisely when Guy lands
Haggar :
Running Clothesline ( B + forward )
Jumping Piledriver ( hold an enemy + jump + B )
* Haggar's ending shows a Running Clothesline + Mallet move. As far as I know, this move can't be performed by players
In 93 I was playing SF2 & also had forgotten my Nes by then. Totally missed this game. Discovered 2 years ago. Is crazy good 👍
We need a Final Fight compilation.
would you settle for cvs3 with ALL ff characters in the line up?
@@LIONTAMER3D Yes, as long as everything is beautiful pixel art like 3rd Strike.
@@rosstee i like the cvs2 sprites: sprites > polygons =/
One of my favorite NES games.
And don’t forget those sweet Capcom NES tunes. The first song combined with the punching sounds will be in your head for days.
This one was a huge hit in Brazil. All gaming magazines raved about it in late 1993.
for those planning to check the game out, the tornado sweep move can ironically be performed by capcom's infamous hadouken motion before attacking and the tornado kick rising attack can be done with the shoryuken motion. never figured out how to properly pull off the lariat from hagar though... lol
Do a dash command, and punch iirc, just like streets of rage blitz attack
What a great freaking game. It was at #1 on my NES want list several years back when one showed up at a local reseller for $80. Couldn't pass it up, so I took the plunge and have not regretted it for a moment.
I grabbed this from the eShop just in time, apparently! Thanks for the review and the reassurance that I made a wise decision.
I felt the same way about "Double Dragon" for the NES as you did about "Final Fight" for the SNES. I didn't care that it was single-player only. The game was so amazing to me. I loved the arcade version, obviously, but to have my very own version at home was unmatchable.
That reminds me, I used to play the arcade version at New Hope Bowl in New Hope, MN as a kid. Being a Minnesotan, you may be familiar with it, or at least the city of New Hope.
You know its gonna be a good day when you hear a "Stan Hansen" reference within an hour of waking up. Thanks SnesDrunk!!
This is my favorite nes game!! Glad you covered it!!!
Pretty sure I've commented the same thing before, but your love of gaming and 90s pop culture is just so genuine. When you say hope you have a great rest of your day I believe you. Truly my fav video game reviewer.
I loved this game as a kid. I still only had an NES when this came out. It was incredible. Thanks for reminding me of it.
Your final fight story pretty much is a reflection of mine. The first two games we got for the Super Nintendo were super Mario world and final fight. I remember seeing it in a skating rink and I fell in love with it. So when it came to the Super Nintendo, I was all over it. It still ranks as one of my top beat em ups of all time and I'm very glad to have played the arcade version as well as on it. And yes, I didn't care that characters were missing and it was only one player; I loved my Super Nintendo version of final fight
Having said that, I've never played mighty final fight because I stopped playing my Nintendo due to it being damaged. Maybe I ought to change that one day
I had a similar experience as well, but Street Fighter II would soon become the afterschool game of choice. I love your comment about the "skating rink". That conjures so many memories for me as a kid - the birthday parties, the smell of popcorn and hot dogs, the MUSIC, the Hudson Adventure Island Arcade that always had a line haha Those were good times. Yall have a great day, because you've made mine : )
For a second I thought you were the mayor of a city and that your daughter was kidnaped. Then I realized you were talking about the story about the Christmas super Nintendo.
Try emulating it. It's such a great little game.
@@BillyReplies oh absolutely about the skating rink. we would be roller skating pretty much all day long. Unfortunately the injuries that would be suffered at that place were more in the form of gang fights than actual slipping and falling. They closed it down years ago
Interesting. Cody's special move would later be known as Criminal Upper in Street Fighter Alpha 3.
Dude, my older brother ALSO insisted this was the greatest thing ever. I remember going to the local Flea Market to pick this up in the early 90s along with Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo because "You can play as blue Blanka!" haha
I remember this game, I rented it when it came out. I haven't thought of it in forever, thanks for reminding me of it.
SNES Drunk merch should include the tag-line, "play any way you can." I always get tingles.
I vividly remember renting this and loving it. Definitely felt like I'd discovered a hidden gem. This and Kirby's Adventure were the highlights of summer '93.
My dude I just gotta say, I've been following your channel for a while now and you are by far the best video-game channel out there. Your texts are perfect, and your delivery too. Congrats man!
This looks totally awesome! 😀Big River City Fan here, so i definitely need to play this one. Thanks for digging it up! ❤
I had a Gamepro subscription in 1993/94. When I started collecting old SNES games in 2001 I felt that subscription gave me an advantage in that the magazine had reviewed games that most people were not familiar with so I had a bit of intel on what obscure games were good. Some of the more valuable titles in my collection, Ninja Warriors being an example, were purchased when they were cheap because I had read a good review in Gamepro back in the day. Mighty Final Fight was one of those games I had read the review on and when I started collecting for the NES (which was years later but still when most games were affordable) it was always on my radar but I never found it in the wild until after the price exploded. Even then I've only seen it once outside an expo. Now watching this video it looks even cooler than it did in the magazine screenshots and I'm all the more annoyed I couldn't find it before the rest of the world caught on to its existence and raised the price up.
"Stan Hansen's Lariat" Finally! A SNES drunk sports reference I get!
I recently played through this on GBA; it was great. I liked Guy and Poison being in it
I did wish there were a save/level select option, but I eventually beat it with Haggar
4:20 I love it when people basically just tell you to pirate the game because game preservation is a community-driven effort.
A kid in the neighborhood (who was a huge liar)claimed to have Final Fight on Nes and I totally thought he was BSing me, but then he borrowed me the game and I couldn't believe it. I was a huge fan of the arcade (in fact I think it was first game I remember playing) and anime fan so I wholly embraced the SD aesthetic. Brilliant game, not only the graphics are funny the story has lots of humour. First in this game the end boss is a Cyborg and he didn't kidnap Jessica just to extortion Haggar but instead he fell in love with her XD
Fantastic game and review as usual. Another way to play is (As with a lot of games) is considering the Famicom version if you have a pin adaptor - you can get a cart only famicom version for like £30-40 which is around $35-45 (was painful looking up that exchange rate). Obviously not the most practical solution with NES games unless you already have a pin adaptor (or have a Famicom), but it definitely firmly falls into that category of games like the Mega Man X series of 'prohibitively bonkers prices in US-NTSC / PAL regions but totally reasonable in JP-NTSC and you don't need to read Japanese to play them'
Soon as I heard “unfortunately, this is one of those NES cartridges…” I already knew it was gonna end with “you’ll have to play this any way you can”.
One of our favorite NES games! We did a couple videos on it last year. Great as always SNES drunk!
This is one of those late in the lifespan games that made the SNES so legendary. You look at some of the chunky, blocky graphics of some early games, and then look at something like Mario 3 or this. It looks like an 8 bit cartoon instead of just a game. Simply wonderful.
Before I even watch the video:
Yes. Yes it is. I loved this game growing up. One of my favorite NES games.
I wish I still had a copy.
I agree!! One of my favourite Nes game!
buy mine off me....$300
@@brettlinthicum6649 BwahahahaHAHAHAHA no
Hell yes! I loved this game. My friends and I would joke that it was better than SNES FF cause it had all characters and stages. Plus the RPG elements! It was cool Capcom included it in their Mini-Mix collection for the GBA.
I remember seeing ads for this game in comic books but I already moved on to Genesis at that point. Played it years later on an emulator and it's great.
I remember punisher in the arcade. Me and my cousin religiously played that whenever we could in the arcade
I never gave this game a second look back in the day. It came out really late during the NES era when I had already moved onto the 16-bit consoles and, at the time, I didn't care for the chibi style. I do enjoy beat-em-ups, so probably will give this one a play now. It's too bad this one isn't 2-player, though.
I discovered this game well after the fact, as I was working and well in to importing for my 16bit consoles by the time it was released. I was completely blown away by it, and was so surprised it flew under my radar for as long as it did. To be honest, I play this version more in current times, than I revisit the SNES version, as it's doing more with less. If and when I want my 16bit fix, I play the Sega CD color corrected version, as that's the best version from that gen hands down.
I remember being interested in this when I saw it in EGM because I liked Final Fight, and wondered why they'd go back and do a NES version. Now that I know it's good I'll have to give it a shot!
I have a lot of nostalgia for Final Fight, but these days I think I prefer Maximum Carnage or Return of Double Dragon (play that one "any way you can" since it's the JP version of Super Double Dragon, and significantly better) but either way, SNES beat em ups are one of the genres I think have aged really well.
Capcom should release a Final Fight Collection that includes Final Fight Arcadem,Snes,Sega CD,Final Fight 2 and 3,Mighty Final Fight etc.... this franchise really deserves its own collection
Man, I forget sometimes that Sodom's name was Katana on the NES/SNES Final Fight games.
I had Capcom Classics Mini Mix on GBA, which is a compilation cart of NES Strider, Mighty Final Fight, and Bionic Commando (which is what I bought it for). probably not the best way to experience Mighty Final Fight, but I had fun with it there!
A few years ago I got my aunt a "Retro-Bit Go Retro! Portable". She only every plays Tetris on it, but Mighty Final Fight and a bunch of other games were on it too. (It was about the same price as a any of the stand-alone Tetris devices at the time.)
Back in the day I rented this game. It was a very good game for the NES, but at the same time it made me realize the limitations of the system. Like having max 2 enemies on the screen at a time, or all the flickering you mentioned. My neighbour had an SNES and we play on it a lot, so there was no denying it.
This game is also on the mini console "Super Retrocade" by Retrobit. IT also has Final Fight(arcade), FF2 (snes) and FF3 (snes) + more than 90 games.
I ordered the famicom version of this one - a great tip for anyone looking for "authentic" games that don't want to break the bank, since it's really easy to get the NES to run Famicom games. I went this route for a lot of NES games where reading was unimportant and I think my copy of Mighty Final Fight JP cost about 40 dollars shipped a few years back.
"Or as I like to call it: Stan Hansen's Lariat!"
Now I REALLY wish playing as him one of the items you could pick up was a cowbell. It would be perfect so you could whip the Devo guys good.
*Takes a bow*
I remember doing Guy's secret move "Flying Kick" by accident and spent literally months, trying to do it again. At a point I even thought it was my imagination. I never been able to do it again, until the internet came.
One of my favorite Final Fight games(you get all 3 main characters) . I'm glad you were able to review this. I had to pay close to 300 for this game but it's worth it if your collector 😁.
Cody's tornado sweep projectile in SF5 actually comes from this game.
Years ago, I found this game dirt cheap at a garage sale. At the time, I didn’t know it existed.
Fun game!
This game was included in one of thoes 500 in 1 handheld's my kids were given for Christmas. I had no idea it was an actual nes game
Those skylines in the background are really gorgeous.
Stan Hansen! That reference alone makes me love this video. I love Puroresu so damn much.
Fantastic Stan Hansen reference, just fantastic.
"Stan Hanson's lariat. "
I would just like to express my fondness for your random wrasslin' references 🤤
@@videostash413 Nixon never watched wrasslin in his life
Starting with a new SNES Drunk in the morning, this bodes well for the rest of my day
I’d go so far as to say you will have a great rest of your day.
I got hit by a bus. But I hope I have a great rest of my day
I use to rent this game alot when I was little. I bought a digital copy on Wii U.
The art direction of this game drew me in more than the original Final Fight, and this of all games introduced me to the concept of experience points. I was steeped in SNES by this point but Mighty Final Fight was well worth returning to the NES.
I had bought this game from Funcoland back in the late 90s for cheap but I ended up selling it in 2015 along with a few other pricey NES games I bought back then to buy my son some clothes for school and traveled with my ex-fiance to Las Vegas for the 1st time during the week of Thanksgiving.
The music in this game is fantastic.
level 2 (riverside) and level 4 (the factory) music make me emotional this game is so beautiful and I wont stop replaying it anywhere I can I wish it had a Nintendo Switch port I dont mind paying a couple bucks for an Arcade Archive version of it
Remember "Bad Dudes"? I loved that game.
I played the Japanese version DragonNinja. The Arcade version is forever "Bad", but the NES version is literally bad.
Also, those Secret Service agents known as the "Bad Dudes", Blade & Striker both look like Jean Claude Van Damme during the dance-fight scene in Kickboxer.
Instead of Fighter's History and FHD: Karnov's Revenge, Data East should've given us Bad Dudes II & III.
One of the few games I had on floppy along with Nesticle, back before I had Internet at home.
I remember my first beat 'em up game that I ever played being Rival Turf, but Final Fight hold a special place for me. Specifically, Final Fight 3 that me and my friend used to beat on a daily basis to the point we started coming up with our own story for what was going on. Mr. Mayor was campaigning for re-election while the gang members you beat up were just supporters of his political opponents. My friend always played as Dean, so he was the mayor's bodyguard.
I had a knockoff one in a 4 in 1 alongside TMNT Tournament Fighters, "Mario Jurassic Park" and Chip n' Dale 2. On my Knockoff Famicom.
It was awesome.
Just mentioned Stan Hansen I think we are now best friend's.
This game is a gem! I almost prefer it to the original FF game.
Has that "capcom NES sound" to it as well.
How weird, I played this game last night for the first time in my life (thanks to emulation), I haven't thought about this game since I was a kid when I read about it in a nintendo magazine... then your video pops up on my feed. 👍
I played it for half hour, I enjoyed it. Worthy of the name 👌
I’m happy I asked for the NES version, because my friends already had FF on SNES and I wanted to see the difference.
I played it for the first time on my retrocade 4 years ago. It's one of those plug and play systems and it's pretty good because you can add games to it pretty easily. I say play this game on there
i found this rom hunting bac in 2012 I had no idea this was a game, I loved it. I even re-drew a sprite of Cody to look like me at the time that I used as an avatar and facebook profile pic.
This might (lol) have been the last cartridge I played in my NES. It was a great way of saying my goodbyes to the gray box of wonders (then came emulation).
man it's so weird to me that Capcom was so weird about Poison and Roxy with the SNES version that they replaced them with Billy and Sid... yet on the NES they didn't.
I did not know this was re-released on the GBA! Wow
This was the first Final Fight I actually played. I had my NES until mid 1994.
Yes I too got this game. It was challenging and fun. Always liked choosing haggar. Beating the game is definitely a sense of accomplishment back then.
I had this and I remember it fondly
I would like you to check out Blades of Vengeance, Dune, and Warriors of the Eternal Sun on SEGA. They were missing from your best games on SEGA videos. Blades of Vengeance, especially, really is a flawless game. The music, graphics, and controls are all perfect. I'd go as far as to nominate it one of the best fighting games of all time. It's an easy game to master because of it's perfect controls, and you can beat it with 3 different characters.
Shout-out to Stan Hansen. I love that reference
Surprised I never had this game. I really liked the arcade Final Fight, and the only home console I had until the mid-90s (when the next-gen systems started coming out and SNES prices dropped) was an NES. I guess I must have just never seen it on sale anywhere around me.
Yeah, Mighty Final Fight is great. As usual it's good to play it on emulators where they can eliminate the sprite flicker.
Also there is a fantastic fan port of it to the ZX Spectrum of all things. It won a ZX fan-game contest a few years ago and is well worth a look even just to see how it got put onto a system even more 'primitive' than the NES. :)
Mighty Final Fight on the bloomin speccy? Well now I HAVE to see this...
@@duffman18 Hope you like it. :)
This game was my first experience with a brawler game. Love it!
Happy to see these back on my recommended!
I'll honestly believe that if Mighty Final Fight was a fan made game released today, it would be extremely popular in the retro community. It is an excellent port to the NES
Yes it is worth it absolutely, arguably the best beat em up on the console (or just behind river city and double dragon 2)
Seems like a fun NES beat'em up. The chibi style is either love it or hate lol. Really enjoyed the look into a small NES game!
This looks like my favorite. River City Ransom.
I love Cody's 8-bit hadouken!
Don't forget the cut level Industrial Zone and the fact the SNES port was also single player.
This is honestly one of the best brawlers the NES got! This one is a ton of fun to dive into!
This is one of the best games for the NES! Really unfortunate it came out so late.
@@videostash413 yeah. It wouldn’t have - you’re right. It’s amazing just how fluid this game is on the NES - something that they wouldn’t have been able to achieve in the very late 80s
A lot of great Nintendo games have late releases. A lot of them didn't leave Japan either until years later.
Mighty final fight was inspired by mighty streets of fire. Clearly the best chibi movie Hollywood put out in the 80s. 😅
final fight is inspired by the FINAL FIGHT in the Wanderers.
Haggar is literally the muscular dude.
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd Cody from FF is based on Tom Cody from Streets of Fire (who also likely inspired Axl in Streets of Rage as some of the promo art looks VERY much like that movie character as well as Blaze often resembling Ellen Aim). Both Cody's are known to be good with knives too (as FF Cody's bio states in the intro and SoF's Tom Cody demonstrates in a scene where he disarms a punk and spins the knife in his hand with skill). I would say Final Fight (and SoR) take their inspiration from multiple sources but Streets of Fire is certainly a primary source. :)
@@carn9507 is it furiously raging street fire!