VC Titles for Monday May 7th

Another Monday and more new titles for the VC. I don’t have any personal super favorites from today’s list that make me want to take the rest of the day off and go play. That said, I suppose the real peach in this week’s basket (IMHO) would have to be Final Fight for the SNES. Final Fight was a scrolling beat-em-up from Capcom. It’s like a hybrid of Double Dragon and Street Fighter more or less. It was probably more fun in the arcade (then again, what wasn’t) but the SNES version was still pretty cool in most regards.

Axl Rose and Slash from Guns n Roses make an appearance in the game - though I’m not entirely sure they show up in the SNES version I believe they are in there. The major difference I do remember between the coin-op version and SNES was the elimination of Guy as a playable character. You had 3 options for characters in the arcade version, Guy (the speedster), Haggar (the slow heavy hitter) and Cody (the happy medium guy). I have no idea why Guy was dumped from the SNES version but it does hurt the cool factor from my point of view. Unless maybe they put him back in - which I doubt, but I may download it just to see and piledrive Axl n Slash a few times with Haggar.

Actually, just for that and that alone, at the end of the day, I still gotta give it a thumbs up. Any game featuring an easy to execute piledriver is ok in my book.