Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle Seven Arcade Brawlers, One Coin

These games were born in arcades, where beating up crowds of thugs was a two, three or four player affair, and the collection keeps it that way. Every title comes with multiplayer options and online play, so you and a friend can pick your fighters, drop into a stage and start clearing screens of bad guys together. The rules are simple enough to explain in one sentence: attack, jump, and press both for a special that costs a bit of your health. Coordination happens naturally, mid-fight, while a boss corners both of you. One honest note: finding a random stranger online is rare these days, so bring your own friends.

The collection spans the genre's golden years, and the games are more varied than their shared controls suggest. Final Fight sets the template in Metro City; Captain Commando gives the same city a sci-fi twist. Warriors of Fate draws on the Three Kingdoms era. Then come the two games that had never been available on consoles before: Armored Warriors, a mecha brawler where you swap robot parts for better weapons, and Battle Circuit, where bounty hunters spend collected cash on new abilities. Those last two are the standout pair.

These games were designed to eat coins, and the collection lets you opt out of that arrangement. Adjust the difficulty or hand yourself extra lives and fight through each game in full, which turns a once-brutal arcade run into something you can actually finish in an evening. Each title also comes in both English and Japanese versions, and every game includes a detailed gallery of its art. The look is pure 1990s: bold pixel art, saturated color, characters shouting their move names as the screen scrolls sideways. Short stages, quick bosses, and a run through a game in roughly 40 minutes to an hour.