When I got final fight for the SNES as a child I was pumped. The magic of having the SNES as a kid, realizing the technological improvements and being able to play final fight at home was a revelation. As a kid I did notice guy was missing, I did notice no two player and I also noticed that they changed the girl characters. But I was so beyond excited I was playing final fight I didn't care.

I know this is a comparison video and the SNES version is woefully inadequate nowadays when looked at, but back then it was gold.

I think some people that weren't there for when it was released don't quite understand this.

I don't think any of us expected arcade perfect ports back then.  The SNES version does look pretty good when when compared to the arcade though.

I accepted Final Fight for SNES for what it was, it looked and played so good I figured it had to make those sacrifices to make the game look as good as it did.
But seeing what they are doing on the MD homebrew they could have added some RAM and made a better port

I find it hard to believe that they didn’t have room to include guy even after removing an entire level.

I really like how SNES sprites are quite as big as the arcade, though I'd pick 2 player co-op and more than 5 enemies appearing (sprite limitation on SNES) over this.

To this day I recall splitting up the screen to avoid friendly fire...

I just remember playing it in the arcade in 91 and then not getting the SNES version until 1993.  The length of time that had passed between my arcade play and playing it on SNES prevented me from seeing the differences until much later. As far as I was concerned as a kid, outside of 2-player, it was near perfect.

The arcade version of Final Fight was the REAL DEAL and playing it on both the arcade & the PS2 included in Final Fight Streetwise. Screw the SNES watered down version which really made me mad.

And then about 14 years later, in 2006, we got Capcom Classics Collection for PS2, and X Box. Not only that, we all got Capcom Classics Collection - Remixed for PSP(, digitally on PS Vita). So now everybody can enjoy playing the original arcade at home or on the go.

10:35 The missing people in the club/bar is actually a layering bug in both the American and Japanese version of the game, not due to censorship. The people in the club/bar and the streets are there but the wrong priority layer was set so they are all actually displayed BEHIND the stage background layer. This is fixed in Final Fight Guy for the Japanese and American release which the fix got backported to the PAL version of Final Fight.

I'm actually shocked how much it looks like the arcade, I do think as a kid I would have rather had 2 player co-op and more enemies on screen and taken smaller sprites and less color/less detailed graphics in exchange. Thanks for the video.

Back in the 80's and 90's arcade was a big business. And it felt like companies didn't want to make the home port as good as the arcades. Because they were selling those machines for thousands of dollars, They want to make sure the Arcade version is still superior to the home consoles.

As a kid, I had only ever played Final Fight on the SNES and didn't even know that an arcade version existed.  My friend and I would just take turns trying to beat it, staying up all hours of the night trying to do so. It wasn't until a year or two after I had first played it that I saw it at the local arcade, but by that time, I had already moved on to other games and never thought much about it. This experience put me in a somewhat unique position to experience the game in isolation as its own standalone product. From that perspective, I still think the game is actually quite good. When I played the arcade version years later, it made sense to me that it was inherently better as most arcade games from that era almost always were. We also didn't have the internet back then to closely compare all facets of the game frame by frame. Did I know some things were different? Of course. The lack of co-op being the biggest (and Capcom does deserve some roasting for not finding a way to engineer that correctly on the SNES, even in those days). But do those things matter to me today when I pick up the game and play it on the SNES? Not a whole lot. I still play both versions from time to time and enjoy both of them for what they are.

With the bald head guy rushed through the screen coming from the left it reminded me of a beat em up staple, you have to have the one enemy, usually with a knife starting from left or right, it is a must😅

The industrial level is still hidden on the cartridge but it's incomplete. I first got Final Fight on the SNES as a birthday gift when the game was first released. Played it and really liked it as I had not yet played the Arcade version. I then found the arcade original and was blown away by how much better it was and all the missing content from the home port.

0:19 saying this ahead of time, what made the arcade game such an attraction was the sound of the hits… laid the base for street fighter sonically during combat

This is still classic,  but man as a 13 year old in '91 when this dropped, my older brother and I had trauma with the lack of co-op. We dropped our mom's laundry money into the arcade 😂. We noticed all the differences you mentioned. Crazy that we didn't get a perfect arcade version until 2005 (Capcom Classics Collection). Sega CD version was great though and at least we got Final Fight Guy, 2 and 3 on the SNES.  Thanks for the memories.

Grew up playing this in the arcade and received the SNES version for my birthday in early 93. I love playing Final Fight Guy version  They fixed a lot of slowdown and added a few backgrounds to it.

Final Fight came out in the arcades when I was roughly 6 years old, and my brother would have turned 4 that fall, as well. We played the shit out of that game in the arcade, and it was one of our all-time favorite games!

Two years later, when the Super Nintendo came out, we ended up renting one for my brother's 6th birthday in October, and Final Fight and Super Mario World were the two games we rented. It was an absolute blast! It is still one of my favorite arcade conversions of all time, and you could say that it's part nostalgia. Having gotten all the way to Abigail, but never completing the arcade version, we both knew at the time even that the Industrial stage and Rolento were both missing. We also noticed immediately that it was not two player, which even at that age, we were not completely devastated by. We would just take turns, and just beat the ever-loving shit out of the Mad Gear gang in this game and loved every minute of it! We noticed Billy and did versus Poison and roxy, and the name changes of all the bosses, but we didn't care about that either. All we knew was that we could play Final Fight at home, without having to spend any more quarters, and it looked almost exactly the same as the arcade for the most part! It is one of the few Super Nintendo games that I still own!

I got Final Fight for Christmas, along with the SNES in 1991. I adored it. Now, going back, I realize what was missing. Still, the SNES version was still fun for me, at the time. Still, I’m much more, looking forward to the SEGA Genesis Mega Final Fight, done independently. It looks INCREDIBLE!!!

We have to remember that Final Fight first came out for the SNES when it was brand new. I don’t like the censorship, but ai understand the cutbacks, as they didn’t know how to include everything on an 8-Meg cart, at the time.

Something about the side by side comparisons...I find them very interesting. Keep up the awesome content RT. You are very thorough and your passion and enthusiasm really shine through in your work my friend.