You call that history? (Score 1)

Wow, the history of beat em ups? Try learning what they are, and how they are not fighting games. Beat em ups are single player (or co-op), often side-scrollers, that involve beating up huge amounts of enemies.
Fighting games are 2 player versus games (occasionally 4, such as Powerstone 2, SSB, and GG: Isuka) that require one player to defeat the other.