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Beat 'em up

A beat 'em up (also known as brawler and, in some markets, beat 'em all) is a video game genre featuring hand-to-hand combat against a large number of opponents. Traditional beat 'em ups take place in scrolling, two-dimensional (2D) levels, while some modern games feature more open three-dimensional (3D) environments with a larger number of enemies.…

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related to Sub-genres · 63
Beat 'em up → Beat, Belt-scroll, Capcom's Devil May Cry, Capcom's Final Fight, Capcom's God Hand, Capcom's Strider, Capcom's Viewtiful Joe, Crowd, Danan, Dante's Inferno, Darksiders, Data East's Bad Dudes, Data East's Captain Silver, Dawn, Devil May Cry, Double Dragon, DragonNinja, Eidos Interactive's Fighting Force, Examples, Flashgal
related to Earliest beat 'em ups (mid-1980s) · 33
Beat 'em up → Another, Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee's, Bruce Lee's Game, Compared, Created, Death, Double Dragon, Dragon, Enter, Hong Kong, Irem, It, Jackie Chan's Wheels, Japan, Karate Champ, Karateka, Kung-Fu Master, Later, Meals
related to Mainstream success (late 1980s to early 1990s) · 29
Beat 'em up → Acclaimed, America's, Another, Bad Dudes Vs, Bruce Lee, Capcom's, Double Dragon, Double Dragon's, Dragon, DragonNinja, Enter, Europe, Final Fight, Fist, Golden Axe, In, It, Japan's, Kunio-kun, Like Kunio-kun
related to Transition to 3D (late 1990s to early 2000s) · 23
Beat 'em up → Active Character Selection, August, Core Design's Fighting Force, DreamFactory, Final Fantasy, Gekido, However, In, It, Italian, Japanese, NAPS, PlayStation, Rage, Sega's Die Hard Arcade, Seiichi Ishii, Squaresoft, Squaresoft's, Streets, The
related to 3D hack-and-slash games (early 2000s to present) · 20
Beat 'em up → Afro Samurai, After, Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Dynasty Warriors, Featuring, Giving, God, God Hand, Heavenly Sword, Hideki Kamiya, Japan, Japanese, Ninja Gaiden, Onimusha, The, These, War, West, While
related to Traditional beat 'em ups (early 2000s to present) · 19
Beat 'em up → Although, Armies, Capcom's Viewtiful Joe, Classic, Critics, Devil May Cry, God Hand, Hideki Kamiya, MadWorld, Night, On, PlayStation Portable, Releases, Rockstar Games' The Warriors, The, Viewtiful Joe, Virtual Console, Xbox Live Arcade, Yakuza
related to history · 14
Beat 'em up → Another Lee, Beat, Bruce Lee's Hong Kong, Data East's, Death, Dragon, Enter, Heavyweight Champ, However, Karate Champ, Lee, Lee's Game, Sega's, The
related to Game design · 8
Beat 'em up → As, Beat, Each, In, Players, Some, The, Throughout
related to Definition · 6
Beat 'em up → Arcade, At, Beat, Gameplay, Occasionally, Such
related to External links · 5
Beat 'em up → Beat, Brawler Archived, Genre, MobyGames, Wayback Machine

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'em beat games game ups genre scrolling 3d also fighting action arcade 2d side-scrolling gameplay combat traditional enemies later dragon

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Beat 'em uppart ofa broader genre of side-scrolling character action games0.85text
Streets of Rageinstance ofGames0.80text
Final Fightinstance ofGames0.80text
Golden Axeinstance ofGames0.80text
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are other classics to emerge from this timeinstance ofGames0.80text
Dungeon Fighter Onlineinstance ofwith popular titles0.80text
Dragon's Crowninstance ofwith popular titles0.80text
Streets of Rage 4instance ofwith popular titles0.80text
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesinstance ofwith popular titles0.80text
Street Fighter II or Mortal Kombat were referred to asinstance ofand games0.80text
the Sega's Streets of Rage seriesinstance ofLater popular examples including titles0.80text
Capcom's Final Fight series.Hackinstance ofLater popular examples including titles0.80text

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