Arcade Archives: Empire City: 1931

Empire City: 1931 (known as Street Fight in Germany and the Benelux Union) is a 1986 shooting gallery video game developed by Seibu Kaihatsu and published by Taito for arcades. It was released in North America by Romstar. The game has players taking on the mafia in 1931 New York City by gunning down mobsters one by one. Versions of the game were released for the Family Computer (1987) and MSX (1988) as Magnum Kiki Ippatsu: Empire City 1931. Acclaim advertised a release for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Western regions, but the console version remained exclusive to Japan. Seibu Kaihatsu eventually released a follow-up game, Dead Angle.