Top 7 Side-Scrolling Beat ‘Em Ups of All Time

Among the many, many genres of video games, perhaps none is as mindlessly fun as the beat-’em-up, and the side-scrollers represented their Golden Age. Throwing nunchuks and repetitive bad guys with different colored clothes are among the hallmarks of the genre… along with a hearty dose of unmitigated ass-kicking. You don’t need to be a deep or logical thinker. You don’t even need to be accurate with a mouse pointer. All you need is the desire to beat the crap out of people. Forget about those PvP games that were all the rage in the 90s. I’m talking about one man, or a small group of you and your friends, versus a ton of baddies. The odds against you in conjunction with saving your girlfriend or the city you love is what makes side-scrolling beat ‘em ups so bad ass.

I agree 100%. Enough said. And now tis time to go download as many of these games as I can for the Wii.