It's a good season for beat 'em up fans. This week saw the release of WayForward's radical brawler-cum-RPG River City Girls. There's an exciting looking return to the Streets of Rage on the horizon, and even Battletoads is getting a look-in before the year is out. But for those who fancy taking a look into the genre's past, retro publisher Hamster has you covered with this week's Arcade Archive release: Vigilante by Irem, available to download now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
Arriving in arcades back in 1988, before being ported to a host of home computers, Vigilante is legendary beat 'em up which served as a pseudo-successor to 1984's Kung-Fu Master. Set in downtown New York (which was, at the time, the go-to "dangerous city" used in all fiction) Vigilante sees players in the role of a martial arts expert, forced to brave the mean streets on a mission to rescue his kidnapped sweetheart, Madonna.
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