Metro City has its gang of villains called Mad Gear, and they haven’t taken nicely to the election of former wrestler Mike Haggar. Throughout the 1980s, the metropolis had suffered from high crime rates, inspiring a large number of movies featuring drugs, gangs, and urban decay. While separate series that play quite differently, both franchises have been intrinsically linked from the beginning.įinal Fight takes place in Metro City, very obviously based on New York City. Indeed, Final Fight was originally titled “Street Fighter ’89”, positioned as a spin-off from their one-on-one fighting game released a few years earlier. The visuals were designed by Akira Nishitani and Akira “Akiman” Yasuda, both of who had previously worked together on Forgotten Worlds, and later help create the world-famous Street Fighter II two years later. While there were other similar games from competitors, the most important one, the one that established so many conventions for the genre across the next decade, was Capcom’s Final Fight.įinal Fight was directed by Yoshiki Okamoto, who developed games for Capcom like Son Son and Side Arms, and had previously worked at Konami on titles like Gyruss. The belt-scrolling beat-em-up genre was established by Technos’ Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun/Renegade, and further evolved through the same company’s Double Dragon.

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