Go Straight Review
26Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide To Side Scrolling Beat-'em Ups Book Review
This is not the golden age of Beat-’em ups and brawlers. The years have passed because that would be back in the late 80’s to mid 90’s when developers were limited by technology. Beat-’em ups and brawlers exploded due to the combination of early success of the games like Kung Fu Master and developers being limited by technology of the time. This led to a tinder box for Beat-’em ups and what followed was nearly a decade of pure dominance rivalled by only a few other genres.
The major downfall of the beat-’em ups happened when 3D technology took over the industry. This led to the disappearance of many genres from the mainstream as the masses weren’t interested in playing something that wasn’t pushing the limits of gaming.
Why pay all this money for a new console just to play last generation games. Here is a profound thought, one of the key requirements to a good side scrolling beat-’em up is that it needs to side scroll and not be 3D. Developers were trying to force a square peg into a round hole. This wasn’t realized for decades later that fundamentals of the genre are key and is a major reason for the renaissance of the genre taking place today.
All of this is documented with precision in Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side Scrolling Beat-’Em Ups written by Dave Cook and published by Bitmap Books, who have been making a name for themselves by trying to the preserve the medium with high quality compendiums on the history of gaming. At 456 pages and over 6 pounds this book is the Mike Hagger of books, the Mayor of BookTown if you will. If there is anything you ever wanted to know about side scrollers, from the inception of the genre in 1984 with Kung Fu Master, all the way to 2020 with the critically acclaimed Streets of Rage 4, its in here.
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