Beat 'Em Up, recorded at Hit Factory Criteria studios in Miami Beach, Florida, is the first Iggy Pop album that The Trolls were credited. The Trolls were: Iggy Pop, Whitey Kirst, Pete Marshall, Alex Kirst, Lloyd 'Mooseman' Roberts.
Beat ' em ups (often called scrolling fighting games, fighting action games, scrolling beat ' em ups or sometimes brawlers) are video games where close combat fighting against multiple opponents is the main objective. Beat 'em ups based around mêlée weapons are often called hack 'n' slash. Though firearms may be featured, unlike shoot 'em up games, the purpose of the game and main means of progress is hand-to-hand fighting against waves of enemies.
Beat 'em ups are a distinct genre, separate from fighting games. There are several distinguishing features. Beat 'em ups take place over a large level, with the screen scrolling as the player moves through the stage. Competitive fighting games have evolved to include a greater variety of attacks that the player can use, while beat 'em ups offer fewer attacks with a simpler control scheme.
In this type of fighting game, one or more players (most often two, but sometimes as many as six) each choose a unique character and team up to punch, kick, throw and slash their way through a horde of computer-controlled enemies. Thus, unlike versus fighting games, when several players play simultaneously, they do not fight each other. Rarely, players are able to do damage to one another, but this is the exception and not the rule. The fighting occurs in a series of side-scrolling stages, some with a powerful boss enemy at the end. Most beat 'em ups are characterized by that in addition to moving left and right (and/or jump/duck) the players can also move vertically, in and out of the scene.
