Brawlers Please Don't Die!

Just reminiscing about some old school arcade brawlers I loved when I was younger. Waste so many quarters and time, but still had lots of fun with them. I honestly believe brawlers are pretty much a dying genre now. I’m writing in hopes it will spark that old memory and keep the genre and or memory alive. Here’s two of the first brawlers I can remember playing a lot.

Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja and Double Dragon are the first brawlers I can remember playing in the arcades. I am gonna go ahead and say this and don’t care if it’s wrong, but they were probably the ones that started the whole side scrolling, beat’em up, bs story, quarter eating games.

Take Bad Dudes for example. Two bro like guys save the president from an army of ninjas and eat a cheeseburger with him after you save him in the end. The story was absolutely atrocious, but the game play was ridiculously fun for it’s time.

Double Dragon is probably one of the most famous brawlers out there. It has spawned sequels, a cartoon series, and a horrible movie. When people hear Double Dragon, I’m sure everyone thinks of the two brothers Billy and Jimmy, and let’s not forget about Abobo. Just got to love how it starts with a gang taking your girl and you fight your way to the end to get her back. The only funny thing is that if you beat it with 2 players, then you and your partner will duel it out for the girl!

Well hopefully someone attempts to make a new brawler or make a sequel to an old one. It only seems fitting as a downloadable game now a days. I don’t know if anyone is willing to spend the time and money to make a crazy co op brawler on the current gen systems. Hell I don’t know if anyone has the attention span to play them anymore. At least try to keep this genre alive in some form.