Manufacturer

Capcom

Origin Date

Released: 1989

Description

Final Fight is a 1989 beat ’em up game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the seventh title released for the CP System hardware. Set in the fictional Metro City, the player controls one of three street fighters: former pro wrestler and city mayor Mike Haggar, expert brawler Cody Travers, and modern-day ninja Guy. The trio set out to rescue Jessica (Haggar’s daughter and Cody’s girlfriend) when she is kidnapped by the Mad Gear Gang.

The game began development as a sequel to the original Street Fighter released in 1987, under the working title Street Fighter ’89. However, its genre was switched from a fighting game to a beat ’em up, and the title was changed to Final Fight following the success of Technōs Japan’s Double Dragon. It became a major commercial success in arcades, selling 30,000 arcade units worldwide while becoming the highest-grossing arcade game of 1990 in Japan and the year’s highest-grossing arcade conversion kit in the United States.