The Japanese Arcade Game That Predicted "Tough on Crime"

Capcom's Final Fight sports a playable mayor who brings to mind the Rudy Giuliani of the 1990s.

Final Fight is a 1989 arcade beat-up-game by Capcom. Its basic style and feel (along with Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat-em-up released the same year) became standard for the genre throughout the 1990s. Scroll right, beat up scores of bad guys, and, in many of these games, enjoy detailed and sometimes humorous backgrounds of New York City or…