Riot City - the other Final Fight

I haven't seen a thread like this in a long while, so I thought I'd make one.

Riot City is a 1991 2D arcade beat 'em up. It was never released outside of arcades so it never got as much attention as games like Final Fight, which it resembles a lot. (Oh, you're rescuing a chick from a crazy gang in here too, so it's even more so like Final Fight). You control Paul, the balanced fighter (player 1 by default), or Bobby (player 2 by default), whose attacks are more powerful but also slower. Like in Final Fight, there's a special large area-of-effect attack that drains a bit of your health.

The graphics are slightly rougher than those in Final Fight (yes, these screenshots are tiny so they look good, but on a full screen...), but they look - how do I put this? - endearing. The soundtrack is awesome; one of the best in a beat-em-up in my own humble opinion. It's overall one of my favourite 2D beat-em-ups.

Has anyone played this in the arcades? I doubt many people have, but I'll ask anyway: if you did, what do you think of it?

Reminds me of Streets of Rage, another Genesis exclusive, and one of its best beat em ups

Well it looks about as shitty as Final Fight, so I'll give it that at least.

I have never heard of this game, it does remind me of riot zone for the turbo duo which was also a final fight clonerilpas

[QUOTE="rilpas"]I have never heard of this game, it does remind me of riot zone for the turbo duo which was also a final fight cloneSpinnerweb

[QUOTE="Spinnerweb"][QUOTE="rilpas"]I have never heard of this game, it does remind me of riot zone for the turbo duo which was also a final fight cloneJakandsigz

[QUOTE="rilpas"]I have never heard of this game, it does remind me of riot zone for the turbo duo which was also a final fight cloneSpinnerweb