Final Fight is a classic fighting game. Too bad it didn't bring bib overalls and no shirt back into the limelight.

User Rating: 7.7 | Final Fight SNES
Final Fight is a classic beat ‘em up. It appeared both on the arcade, and the Super Nintendo. One of my favorite things about this game is the fact that the hero wears green bib overalls, with no shirt, and one strap down.

One of my favorite things about this game is the fact that the hero wears green bib overalls, with no shirt, and one strap down. His name is Haggar, and he is the former pit-fighter turned mayor. To make a short story shorter, when a dastardly gang kidnaps his daughter, Haggar and his daughter’s boyfriend, Cody, set out for revenge. It’s a beat ‘em up, so it really only has the barest pretense of a story, true to beat ‘em up standards. The only one to break the mold was Square’s The Bouncer. The combat is also true to beat ‘em up standards, a combat model that was a natural blast to play. It’s a scroller, and you move your character across the screen, looking all dangerous and nasty, throwing punches or maybe executing a combo in order to take out droves of similar enemies with creative names like Axel, Rex, and Bread. Final Fight has such combat in droves, and it’s usually pretty fun to play. The bosses are about eight-feet tall, and can occasionally be a pain, but no matter, because they’re still usually colorful and creative enough to keep from being too monotonous or too annoying. The game takes you through several fun areas, including a subway level that is quite fun, even if it’s a little arbitrary. All in all, the gameplay in Final Fight is a good way to pass some time, that’s for sure.
The graphics are also pretty much standard early-mid nineties beat ‘em up material. The enemies are unnecessarily flamboyant, so punk that you can almost smell the anarchy, and the heroes look just as mean if not meaner. The bosses are super-sized (in both height and loudness) versions of the normal enemies, and a few are crazy, like Sumo-Wrestlers or some other crazy thing like that. There are expensive food items hidden in crates and barrels as well.

The sound is one of my favorite parts of the game. It rocks this crazy MIDI 80’s metal themed ditty and it just gets under your skin…in a good way. I can sit here and hum it today, and for a game like Final Fight, that’s quite an accomplishment. This ain’t Nobuo Uematsu or Koji Kondo. Ain’t even Harry Gregson-Williams. So, I guess that’s a good thing.

This game doesn’t get old. It’s so simple, yet so satisfying, like most other games of this ilk, and it’s really hard to put down even if it doesn’t deliver some profound experience, or even one as entertaining as, say, Super Smash Brothers. I still play this game on my SNES today. I play a level or two for a quick jolt of Final Fight, then move on to some other game, like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy VI, or Donkey Kong Country.

Final Fight is remembered. That’s good, I suppose it should be. It certainly is fun. That’s all anyone really asks for, isn’t it?