Final Fight: Arcade Specs, Characters and Ports
Final Fight is the side-scrolling brawler that shares a universe with Street Fighter. This sheet summarises the arcade release.
Arcade facts
- Released: December 1989.
- Board: CP System (CPS-1), board number 7.
- Hardware: Motorola 68000 and Zilog Z80 processors, with Yamaha YM2151 and OKI MSM6295 sound chips.
- Playable heroes (3): Guy, Cody and Haggar.
- Enemies and bosses (26): Abigail, Andore, Andore Jr., Axl, Bill Bull, Belger, Bred, Damnd, Dug, Edi E., El Gado, F. Andore, G. Andore, G. Oriber, Holly Wood, J, Jake, Poison, Rolento, Roxy, Sodom, Simons, Slash, Two P., U. Andore and Wong Who.
- Colour variants: one per character. The sole exception is Holly Wood, who appears in orange when carrying knives and in red when carrying Molotov cocktails.
- Stages (6): Slum, Subway, West Side, Industrial Area, Bay Area and Uptown.
- Bonus rounds (2): Break Car and Break Glass.
Development credits
The planning team was Pon G, Nin and Akiman. Kanekon, Shin., Tomiyan and Yokoyan handled programming, and Kucchan worked on hardware. Object and scroll artwork came from a larger group including S.Y, Tissue, Prince, Mikiman, Okachan, Fukumary and Nissui. The music is credited to “Youki chan’s papa”, and special thanks go to CBX, Poo, Chin and Yamachan.
Contemporary home versions
Final Fight appeared on the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, the Capcom Power System Changer, Game Boy Advance, Sega CD, Sharp X68000, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Super Nintendo.
- Game Boy Advance (Final Fight One, 2001): this release restored the Industrial Area and the Rolento fight that the Super Nintendo versions lacked. Unlocking the Alpha-era sprites of Guy and Cody required defeating 50 and 500 thugs respectively, and those versions had different boss-fight dialogue.
- Super Nintendo: the first port reached shops in a hurry soon after the console launched and offered only Haggar and Cody. After complaints, Capcom issued Final Fight Guy, which swapped Cody for Guy, so no version of the Super Nintendo game has all three. It also dropped the Industrial Area, and with it Rolento, and the two-player mode. The sequel, Final Fight 2, arrived exclusively on the console in 1993 and made up for much of this.
- Sega CD (Final Fight CD): an international edition with censored content, covered in Volume II of the Miscellany.
