newfiebangaa plays Final Fight for Super Nintendo - Part 1 of 6

Yeah, I know. It's the Super Nintendo version. But as awesome as the Sega/Mega CD version was, it didn't end properly like I felt it should have and I had to finish it off with a longplay. Let's do this right with the other well-known version of this, which needed a separate Blockbuster rental-only version called Final Fight Guy to play through the game as Guy.

This was also the first newfiebangaa Let's Play that I ever watched, by the way.

Unlike the other versions, this is one-player only. This is a shame, as the game is notorious for its cheap difficulty, and having so few continues doesn't make it any easier.

Round 1: The Slums

What can I say? You see Thrasher run off with Jessica, then a bunch of steel barrels get broken and people get beat up.

The big fat guys charge at you, while Holly Wood (which should be one word, by the way) has an infinite supply of knives...kinda like the Jacks in Streets of Rage 2. Axl and Slash will block your standing combo and any strikes you throw at them at times, so you're better off getting your hands on them and throwing them around.

Speaking of the enemies, Two.P has the same thing on the back of his jacket like J does now. In the arcade, it was a snake, but here, it's the radioactive symbol. I guess they couldn't be bothered changing the sprite...or it was difficult to do on Super Nintendo due to memory constraints. Who knows?

The boss here is Thrasher (who is named Damnd in the arcade version, and was name-changed for obvious reasons), and to beat him, you'll be slamming enemies into him to do some more damage. When you get him alone, you'll be able to grab the guy and do some real damage yourself. Just watch out when he tries to punch you.

After you do enough damage to him, he'll leap to the subway entrance (where you can't get him) and call out some more enemies to come at you. The real threat here is the red Holly Woods, which throw firebombs at you instead of knives.

Now you know what Billy and Sid look like. Just like Poison and Roxy before them, they flip right over you and they still try to slap you. It's like you can tell they were edited into guys just because Nintendo had something against violence towards women. Billy has green hair (and more health), while Sid has red. Thought I might bring that up in advance.

Round 2: The Subway

This is where you'll first meet Andore. He has a bigger health bar than anyone else, so smack other people into him and do some jump kicks on him as well.


You'll soon enter the subway. You'll more than likely be dealing with at least three or four enemies at one time, so keep yourself from being surrounded by throwing enemies into other enemies. If you can, throw a Slash at everyone else, as they usually like blocking hand-to-hand combat strikes.