I don't know if this game was the first one of the beat them up genre, but it is certainly the first one on my list. For one of the first, it's not too bad of a game, but it still have many flaws.

First of all, the controls are a lttile bit clunky. It's not consistent on what attack you wanna do. You will also abuse the hell out of the flying kick attack. If you try any other attacks, your butt will get kicked. So the flying attack is the only attack that you cannot get abuse by other enemies.

The hit box aren't that great too. Trying to be aligned to hit someone is really hard to do. You need to be perfectly aligned to do so. There's an enemy that what really annoying because of the hit box : the motorcycle guys. When on foot, you need to do a diving kick to hit them without getting hit. However, the alignment and the timing is really hard to execute. You will get hurt by them and you will also be mad at them.

Except that, it's always pleasant to beat some random goons. There's also some cool parts like the one on the motorcyle that you kick people off of their own bike.

The game was pleasant, but I wouldn't recommand for someone to get out of his way to play it since it's not that accessible.

Game #31 of my challenge