Rival Turf

[dste]

Released for the SNES in 1992 Rival Turf is pretty much a poor version of Final Fight but for me it has something that makes it cheesy but enjoyable.

Using only two characters Jack Flak and "Oozie" Nelson it's your standard 'rescue the girlfriend' storyline and had about five bad guys that would appear over and over throughout the game.

Didn't stop it from being worth a play through though in my opinion.

[nakamura]

There are two follow ups in Japan I think. Not sure if they are any better as I didn't think much of this back in the day. Two players at least which is something FF lacked.

Maybe I should give it another go via PSP emulator.

[The Laird]

SNES version is ok but not a patch on the original arcade game, much like the Final Fight conversion really.

[Wol]

I enjoyed it at the time, but it is a poor mans Final Fight.

Jaleco SNES games always seemed to range from average to poor, if memory serves me right, however I hear there arcades games are pretty decent.

[SonicTheHedgehog]

I actually really enjoyed playing this with a mate back in the day. Final fight happens to be one of the few big games iv never actually played so i cant compare the 2 but there was something really addictive about Rival Turf that i cant quite put my finger on.

[Shinobi]

Never played this but own Rushing Beat Shura the third game in the series.. That's a good game multiple routes, loads of moves including street Fighter fireball motions etc... And you can use the enemies weapons on them..

Remember in Mean Machines that putting a certain game on the score table you could alter the enemies names

[dste]

There are two follow ups in Japan I think. Not sure if they are any better as I didn't think much of this back in the day. Two players at least which is something FF lacked.

Maybe I should give it another go via PSP emulator.

The two-player mode was a massive benefit over FF, RT is a lot better in two-player.

[Bobinator]

The Peace Keepers (it got a US release, I'm assuming you guys never got it) seemed like a decent beat-em-up, with a decent number of moves, branching paths, and multiple endings. The problem is that for the US version, they kind of screwed it up hard, by, among other things, removing all the music in the game and replacing it with ambient sound. The other two games in the series seemed... well, Rival Turf seemed pretty repetitive, and Brawl Brothers seemed all right, if it weren't for the sewer mazes. Yes. Sewer mazes. It's as fun as it sounds.

[tux]

Anyone else ever had a weird bouns stage appear on Rival Turf?! i rememeber playing it many moons ago and "welcome to bonus stage" flashed up and a glitchy room came up, with a statue in it from memory?! You couldnt really move properly in the room or do anything really and it never appeared again! I used to do a lot of narcotics....but this definatly happened!