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Anonymous10/22/26, 12:28No.12890291Belt Scroller
What's /vr/'s favorite handheld beat'em up? Does this genre translate well to small screens?
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Anon10/22/26, 12:38No.12890305
Double Dragon Advance for retro stuff obviously, it's the best version of DD1. The Star Wars game in your picrel is good too. TMNT would have been good if not for the obnoxious amount of enemy iframes. The genre was pretty good on GBA and later portables but not that many were made, and the only one that surpassed the arcade classic Dungeons & Dragons Shadow Over Mystara was Dragon's Crown.
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Anon10/22/26, 13:37No.12890370
got the 1cc in Astro Boy recently (deathless, hard mode, jp version)It was my first treasure game and my second beat em up. Loved the game. combat is extremely tactile. the shmup levels were fun too. but i dont know if it's an issue with beat em ups in general but I found it a smidge too easy. was able to 1cc it in just a couple of days. i didnt even metafag or watch a playthrough either. just maxxed out health and laser and went to town.Action games play great on the gba. devs are really intentional about legibility. by the 00s they had already developed 2d action games for decades at that point, so their skill in the craft was really matured
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Anon10/22/26, 13:42No.12890378
Why are beat em ups called belt scrollers?
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Anon10/22/26, 13:44No.12890379
I dont consider all of them actually beat em ups. If you cant combo with different animations, grab the enemies and have a way to go up and down, they're just an action platformer
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Anon10/22/26, 14:51No.12890440
>Belt Scroller thread >OP has Dragon Ball and Astro Boy, single plane beat 'em ups
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Anon10/22/26, 15:24No.12890549
What's the game in the middle? I know the one on the top left is Star Wars-related Is it actually good? Or did you just pick a random beat-em-up for this 3x3 collage?
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Anon10/22/26, 15:29No.12890564
your mom's boobs when I hold'em and beat'em up.
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Anon10/22/26, 16:24No.12890671
Whats the difference between a beat em up and belt scroller?
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Anon10/22/26, 18:29No.12890827
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Anon10/23/26, 17:56No.12892420
Streets of Rage and Battletoads on Game Gear Double Dragon and Battletoads on Game BoyHave you guys played that AWESOME Bruce Lee for GBA though? Does that count?