Streets of Rage (known as Bare Knuckle in Japan) is a sie-scrolling beat 'em up released by Sega in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It is the first installment of the Streets of Rage series which was followed by Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3. The game was also been converted over to Sega's Game Gear and Master System. In 2007, the game was released for the Wii's Virtual Console in North America and Europe, It's been hailed as Pioneer of Fighting side-scrolling games in history.