Streets of Rage (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Streets of Rage appeared in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see w:c:sega:Streets of Rage.
Streets of Rage (Japanese: ベア・ナックル Bare Knuckle) is a retired stage on Super Smash Stadium. It debuted about halfway through Season 22 and was the 75th new stage to debut. Officially, its "retirement date" is listed as being in Season 35, its last playing; however, the stage technically survived into Season 36 and was originally scheduled to appear on February 29, 2008 before being replaced at the last minute with Mushroom Kingdom 1. Blaze Fielding continued to appear until Easter Sunday that year.
It was played 80 times throughout its lifetime, which is also how many playings Distant Planet got.
==Stage overview==
This stage wasn't based on any actual location from a Streets of Rage game; rather, it was a generic dystopian cityscape battlefield that, ironically, was not based on New York City in any way (as usually tends to happen in games like this), but on the downtown section of Roanoke, Virginia, the closest major city to where Alex lives and St. Clair Publications' original hometown. The battlefield also contained elements of downtown Danville, another major Virginia city that is well-known for being a ghetto.
The actual stage was flat and had no bottom kill zone; there were also upwards of six soft platforms courtesy of the skyscrapers in the background. Stage hazards included various gangsters who could be beaten down just like the actual fighters; they fought using their fists as well as guns, knives, metal poles, tire irons, and whatever other weapons they could get their hands on; you could also use these weapons yourself after knocking them out of the hands of the thugs.
==Changes==
None.
==Why it was retired==
For various reasons, the stage was seen as too janky.
==In its own universe==
The Streets of Rage series is another series made by Sega in 1991 that they'd hoped would take off just like Sonic did, essentially a darker and grittier counterpart to his light, happy, child-friendly gameplay. Unfortunately, perhaps thanks to Sonic's own darkness and grittiness in the SatAM cartoon and later Archie Comics series, after SoR's third entry (and Knuckles), the series stalled for over 25 years until a fourth game released in 2020 made it relevant again.