LMH Mixtape #24: Punching and Kicking

Brent and Rob created the "punching and kicking" category to focus on titles that involved pummeling your enemies but which were not classified as straight-up fighting games.  This flexible definition would cause some controversy in later installments (see "The Kabuki Quantum Fighter Discussion" and "The Shatterhand Incident" of Episode 92; see also "The Live Shatterhand Debate" of Episode 100) -- but after the dust settles, the result is always some grade-A jams.

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KEYGLYPH'S AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS, JUST BECAUSE

Instant new favorite:  DJ Boy - Round 4
Other instant new favorite:  Growl - Rune & Ark
Brewed new favorite:  Black Belt - Main BGM

Gets me a little emotional:  Golden Axe - Path of Fiend
Headphone users beware*:  The Ninja Warriors - Motherless Children (Stage 5)

*a track that has sudden volume spikes.  Exercise caution when cranking these!
Track listing and original episode:

http://legacymusichour.blogspot.com/2011/04/legacy-music-hour-episode-24-punching.html

Episode 92: Punching and Kicking 2

The Double Dragon Boyz return to the topic of Beat 'Em Up Games (which includes Hack and Slash Games). They discuss what it means to be a beat 'em up game, Brent shares his going to bed process, and they both discover the true pronunciation of Jaleco.  Full track listing below.

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Game - Composer - Track - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)

Werewolf: The Last Warrior - Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yusuke Takahama - Ending - Data East - NES - 1990

Sonic Blast Man II - K. Watanabe, Naoto Yagishita - City - Taito - SNES - 1994

Final Fight 2 - Mari Yamaguchi, Yasuaki Fujita, Yuki Iwai, Setsuo Yamamoto, Yuko Takehara - Hong Kong 12:00 PM 2/Holland/France/Japan - Capcom - SNES - 1993

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - Kozo Nakamura, Yuichi Sakakura, Tomoya Tomita - Scene 4 - Konami - NES - 1992

Kabuki Quantum Fighter - Masaki Hashimoto, Takahiro Wakuta - Round 2 - Human Entertainment/HAL Laboratory - NES - 1991

Knights of the Round - Isao Abe - Battle at the Castle Fort - Capcom - SNES - 1994

Streets of Rage 2 - Yuzo Koshiro - Dreamer - Sega - Genesis - 1992

Streets of Rage 3 - Motohiro Kawashima - The Poets I - Sega - Genesis - 1994

River City Ransom - Kazuo Sawa - Unused 1 - Technos Japan - NES - 1990

Golden Axe III - Naofumi Hataya, Tatsuyuki Maeda (Ryunosuke), Haruyo Oguro (Lotty), Tomonori Sawada - The Vast Field (Stage 1) - Sega - Mega Drive - 1993

Golden Axe III - Naofumi Hataya, Tatsuyuki Maeda (Ryunosuke), Haruyo Oguro (Lotty), Tomonori Sawada - Cursed City (Stage 6B) - Sega - Mega Drive - 1993

The Combatribes - Kazunaka Yamane - Martha's Truth - Technos - SNES - 1993

Brawl Brothers - Atsutoshi Isemura, Hajime Uchida - Street Beat - Jaleco - SNES - 1993

Splatterhouse 3 - Eiko Kaneda (Milky Eiko) - Staff Roll - Namco/Now Production - Genesis - 1993

Rollergames - Norio Hanzawa, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Atsushi Fujio, Shigemasa Matsuo - Ending - Konami/Ultra Games - NES - 1990