Long story short about history of OpenBOR, it was created about 10 years after Street of Rage 2. Meet OpenBOR – The Open Source Engine for Beat ‘Em Up games There were (and are) group of people creating and maintaining what they called as beat ’em up games engine known as OpenBOR engine.

Luckily, there are people out there who also love beat ’em up genre and have taken actions long time ago to cherish and keeping the genre alive. Being a kid in 90’s era, I played a lot of beat ’em up games and still fall in love with the genre – simply because playing beat ’em up games requires little-to-no effort to think, make a strategy and such, all you need to do is to relax and enjoy the game, punching enemies and stay alive to beat the Boss. Beat ‘Em ‘Up genre is here to stay!ĭespite all those facts and how fascinating those new games and genres are, I’m pretty sure out there, there are people who still like and love beat ’em up games. Battle Royale and MMORPG are two of currently most favorite genres. 2000’s are about 3D, stealth, and more intelligent actions, not just punching beat ’em up here and there.įast forward to today, games are mostly online (or at least requires to be online and connected) and starting to move to cloud. Beat ‘Em Up is a dying genreīut coming to 2000’s where there were plenty of advancements happening not only to the hardware (faster processor, bigger and cheaper memory) but also on the game engines as well as the game genre themselves, beat ’em up games was slowly dying and left behind.

In 80’s and 90’s, most games released were games with beat ’em up genre – games where its mission is to beat up all enemies on screen, wipe them clear. Beat ’em up games is here to stay! Thanks to the OpenBOR community.

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