Chaos Theater Redux is a Features series that follows up on topics previously discussed during the podcast’s 2011-2017 run. Some types of games are like comfort food, and for me that includes beat ‘em ups. You show me some rough looking men or women fighting their way through waves of enemies in blighted metropolitan slums, and I call that a good time. The year 1989 saw the release of two of my favorite arcade beat ‘em ups of all time: Final Fight and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Both games spawned sequels and fandoms that are still going strong. Final Fight’s […]
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