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Ok, Best known oldschool 2d beatemups off the top of my head are Battle Toads, River City Ransom, Double Dragon, and Golden Axe.Good graphics, touchy gameplay/controls, little to no plot, no character development, less than 15 unique enemies, not lengthy.Best known oldschool 2d rpgs off the top of my head are earth bound, final fantasy 6, chrono trigger, secret of mana.Good graphics, simplistic gameplay, no/few control issues, highly plot driven, large character development, greater than 15 unique enemies (with 2 of the games having as many poses for enemies as a beat-em-up would), and all are fairly lengthy.AVERAGING out the quality and quantity of what the games of each genre above deliver, the more well known rpgs have higher of both than the more well known beat em ups.So yes, it is completely possible to make a turd in one genre and a diamond in the other. However, making a diamond rpg will more often than not require more effort than making a diamond beat em up.