![]() The modern Yakuza games owe River City Ransom for their brawler roots as much as Shenmue, but the entire history of Marvel video games arguably owes as much to the genre. The Spider-Man brawler featured Black Cat and Sub-Mariner as player options, and Capcom’s The Punisher game included both Frank Castle and Nick Fury. The rosters of playable characters in these games tended to be more diverse, as they were not limited to promoting characters already established in the MCU. Games like Data East’s Captain America and the Avengers and Sega’s 1991 Spider-Man arcade game proved the side scrolling brawler was a perfect fit for most Marvel licenses. Fans of arcade style beat ‘em ups in the mold of Double Dragon and Final Fight have the longest history of Marvel games that largely hold up well today.
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