The city that had been plagued with crime and violence was safe and peaceful.
However, evil has once again cast its shadow over the city.
So begins a Sega classic.
In the 1990's, it seemed like all console games were desperately trying to ape one of three games. All platform games tried to be Super Mario Brothers. All fighting games tried to be Street Fighter II. All beat 'em up games tried to be Streets of Rage. And like all 1990's games, the story in Streets of Rage was present but completely unimportant. You chose a character, walked towards the right side of the screen, and beat up anybody who stood in your path. Pleasures don't get much simpler than this.
Test Icicles were an incredibly short-lived band whose sound fell so deftly between the realms of dance punk and thrash rock that you didn't know whether to cut a rug or pick a bar fight when you were listening to them, but either would have complimented the sound nicely. When the band split mere months after their album's release, member Devonte Hynes was quoted as saying that the boys "were never, ever that keen on the music." It should have been a sign that the band was formed mere days before their first gig, opening for another famously short-lived indie rock band – The Unicorns.
There were three games in Sega's Streets of Rage series on the Genesis. Aside from being ported to every other Sega system of the time, all three games have recently become available on the Wii Virtual Console, and Streets of Rage 2 (the one shown in the video below) is also available on XBox Live Arcade.
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