Well if it’s VR I’m fucked because I have epilepsy and VR is strictly off limits. Distance from screen is key to not setting off the bug zapper in my head and VR is strapping a pair of TVs to your eyeballs. As for time travel, I recently did enjoy my walk through 1984 but.. well now I’ve said too much.

Thank you for the response. I’m glad you liked some of the games at least. It simply was a different era back then I suppose. Perhaps if time travel or VR gets anywhere you may experience it one day in its former glory. Kudos thanks for the great read.

Indeed, I didn’t grow up in that era. I was 5-months-old when Final Fight came out in arcades. I was 2-years-old when Final Fight came to the SNES.

I also don’t get nostalgia.. or didn’t used to. I’m 30 now and I do admit a degree of sentimentality might occasionally gnaw on me like some kind of parasitic tick and I haven’t quite figured out how to get it off. But, when it comes to games from before my time (my first console was the PS1 which I got Christmas Day 1996, then I consider myself as becoming a gamer on July 11, 1998, when I got an N64 for my 9th birthday) I think someone has to look at them without nostalgia, because here’s the deal RC Kola: games in rereleases like this are now commercial products that cost the same money new games do. And so for those in my position or later, we’re not going to feel what you feel for Final Fight and NEVER WILL because we can’t recreate the circumstances. We can’t take ourselves mentally to where this is a new release. It has to hold up on its own merit today, and it can’t.

And actually, my long time readers knew it was a slam dunk I’d hate Final Fight. I do go into every game open-minded (I’d never previously played ANY game in Capcom Beat Em Up before this) and it was obvious. What wasn’t obvious was that I’d actually LIKE 4 of the 7 games. It’s one of the most shocking outcomes in my nine years of doing game reviews. So please remember I didn’t hate on Final Fight to troll you. I don’t think it holds up to the test of time at all and literally can’t believe you or anyone else thinks it does. But, I tip my hate to those games in this set that did, and there were four of them, when most of my fans would have guessed 0.