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Simulated fighting is great – all the fun of a good old punch up with none of the pain of broken body parts and subsequent carpeting at the hands of the Crown Prosecution Service. The genre has been around for some time, but rather than waste precious moments with second rate beat 'em-ups, we list the world's finest examples for you here.

Like its console-bound younger brother Streets of Rage, Final Fight saw you ambling through graffiti-strewn cityscapes punching and kicking your way through large numbers of suspiciously similar-looking villains. While grossly simplistic by today's standards, this paved the way for the far more sophisticated likes of Ninja Gaiden.