Beat’em-ups

Easter eggshaped image from the loserdrop stairwell that squeezes you between the prize machines and a Chinese into a Fight Club-style fighting-game fight club.

The classic Club Sega signage is gorgeous but so is what’s written on it: a Battle Arena™ just for fighters. Here’s a place that’s all about your niche hobby. Enough people are enough into it to punch each other’s lights out before going back the office and saying nothing about it.

Meanwhile: storming punctuation in “beat’em-up”! I’m adopting that now.

I always called Street Fighter a beat’em-up. Then later came to believe that beat’em-ups were like Double Dragon and Final Fight; Street Fighter and Tekken were fighting games.

But if the Battle Arena says they’re beat’em-ups then discussion’s over.