The Punisher was Marvel and Capcom's first collaboration, and it brought a grittier edge to the already-violent beat-em-up genre upon its release in 1993. The game features the standard Punisher storyline (Frank Castle's family is gunned down, and he seeks revenge against the Kingpin), with Castle teaming up with Nick Fury (back when he was a cigar-chomping white guy) to take down hordes of bad guys. Appropriately, this involves a lot more guns and hand grenades than your typical beat-em-up game, diffused somewhat by comics-inspired BLAM! and KRAK! effects. Though it lacks the range of recognizable characters of Konami's 1992 X-Men beat-em-up, The Punisher features sophisticated graphics for its time and action that should satisfy beat-em-up fans. Our overlay depicts the game in the Capcom Dynamo cabinet format.