Double Dragon’s plotline and kidnapped Jessica Haggar, the daughter of the new Metro City Mayor. Too bad the Mad Gears never called the Black Shadow Warriors, because had they done so, they would have found out that kidnapping someone’s daughter or girl friend usually ends in a Final Fight that doesn’t benefit the bad guys.
Final Fight takes the side-scrolling beat-em-up action of Double Dragon and kicks it up a notch with the Capcom quality stamp of approval that gamers throughout the 90s would instantly recognize. Players will take control of Mayor Mike Haggar, Cody, and Guy through the slums of Metro City all the way to the Uptown, taking names and smashing faces to the very end.
The game takes place in the same universe and storyline continuity of the Street Fighter series and was once called Street Fighter 89 until the developers decided that the true sequel of the Street Fighter would keep within the bounds of a one-on-one fighter. The name change to Final Fight did not hurt its debut in arcades and was a smash hit worldwide.
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