It's a bad port of an arcade game that hasn't aged well. It loses the visual fidelity (to be expected), a character, an entire stage but they sure kept the frustration factor in and then some. Regular enemies can kill you in one or two hits, and unlike most good beat 'em ups, you don't respawn where you left off if you use a continue. Instead, you're kicked back to the very beginning of the (sometimes very long) stage which only adds to the monotony this genre always had.

The fact that this port is so bad is confusing when you consider the quality of other Capcom home ports. Ghouls n Ghosts and Forgotten Worlds on Genesis were great even if they didn't have all the bells and whistles of their arcade counterparts, and not only that, they were rebalanced because the devs knew people wouldn't be throwing quarters at their console to keep things going.

Do yourself a favor and just play Final Fight 2 or 3. 2 may be easier and, in some ways, duller but at the very least you're not constantly getting stun-locked. In case you're wondering..."Final Fight Guy" really doesn't fix any of the problems of this port and should be avoided as well.