64th Street: A Detective Story

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64th Street: A Detective Story
Screenshot of 64th Street
Developer(s)	Jaleco
Publisher(s)	Jaleco
Designer(s)	Tokuhiro Takemori and team
Platform(s)	Arcade Game
Release date	1991
Genre(s)	Beat 'em up
Mode(s)	Single player, 2 player co-op
Input methods	8-way Joystick, 2 Buttons for Attack and Jump
Cabinet	Horizontal
Arcade system	Jaleco Mega System 1-C hardware
CPU	68000
Sound	Sound CPU : 68000, Sound Chips : YM2151, OKI6295
Display	Raster, 256 x 224 pixels, 1024 colors

64th Street: A Detective Story is a beat 'em up arcade game released by Jaleco in 1991.

Two selectable private detectives, Rick and Allen, each with different fighting styles, attempt to solve cases by beating up each criminal they encounter. Lots of special items can be found by throwing enemies into the background and breaking things, typical of this popular genre in the 1990s arcades. The game's two protagonists make a cameo appearance in another Jaleco game, Chimera Beast. ^[1]

This game is a precursor to Jaleco's Rushing Beat series on the Nintendo Super Famicom.

The beginning scene in this game starts off with a new client entering Rick and Allen's detective agency. He claims to have had his daughter kidnapped, and the kidnappers left him a letter. The next day, Allen notices an ad in the classifieds with similar sentence structure to the letter left by the kidnappers. They soon realize that the writing is actually a secret code, only understood by certain crimelords, and off they go to find the truth.

The game seems to take place in 1939. The story starts out in a typical Double Dragon style, the heroes on a mission to rescue a girl from an evil corporation, the Legacy orgainization. Along the way they are harangued by all manner of thugs and toughs, whose costumes range from 1980s hip-hop wear to stereotypical pirates. The bosses are tough by way of strange special attacks, and the story takes on a steampunk feel as it goes along, coming to a head in a battle inside a blimp.