Streets of Rage 3

In January, I knocked twelve Sega Genesis games off of my backlog. In February, I drummed out seven more. In March, no progress was made whatsoever. Linear trends being what they are, I was very afraid I would somehow make negative progress - regress? congress? - here in April. But no! I'm back on the wagon, and earlier today I was able to bang out Streets of Rage 3 with Keith. How did it go? I already can't really remember. Let's see some highlights in bullet form.

• The game was just fucking impossibly hard and within fifteen or twenty minutes we knew we had to resort to some cheat codes.
• Doing so allowed us to play as kangaroos in boxing gear. If you thought the streets were enraged before, you have no idea how enraged they were once boxing kangaroos took to said streets with the appropriate amount of rage.
• There was a story here, and even though we whizzed right through the cut scenes and largely ignored them, we gleaned enough to appreciate the stakes of the final few stages.
• Those stakes? Some sort of robot became an impostor standing in for the city selectman or mayor or maybe even the U.S. President or something. Oh hell no, not on these two kangaroos' watch.
• The game ends with a vague, "The End?" Hindsight tells us the question mark was unnecessary, as Sega passed on a fourth Streets of Rage game. No real loss, folks.

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Arrow Flash
Golden Axe
Alien Storm
Virtua Fighter 2
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
Streets of Rage 3
Gain Ground
Streets of Rage 2
Golden Axe II
DecapAttack
Comix Zone
Streets of Rage
Chakan: The Forever Man
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Columns III
Columns
Crack Down
Altered Beast
Bonanza Brothers