(played with MagneticBurn)

Off the top of my head I think this is my favorite Capcom beatemup so far. Aside from being more polished than Final Fight, less tedious than Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, and featuring cooler characters than both, simply having projectiles by default goes hard as hell on its own. Good shit.

Sometimes these games don't feel very soberly designed in arcade versions. There's often too many enemies on screen to count, compared to the sprite limits of a console beatemup or something. But yknow, those usually have limited continues, so I'll take this instead any day.