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All of these action stars existed in a world where all their realities and storylines converged into one meta-reality?  Their personalities, their personal issues, the villains they fight all coming together in one world where everything is a constant battle against the evil South African Mafia Terrorist Drug Lords that have kidnapped their daughters/wives/girlfriends!
Now imagine that you can choose from an endless amount of these action heroes to play through as.  Now imagine the wrong star in the wrong scenario, fighting the wrong villains from the wrong movie, all while still using their signature catchphrase dialogue.  For example:

Bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2, "Diplomatic Immunity!"

John McClane, "Yippe-ki-yay Mother@(#$*@*(#@!"

Bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2, "What?  That makes no sense as a response to what I just said."

So while it would be an action beat em up, it would also be humorous, and like all action flicks from the 80's and 90's, it would be over the top violent.

I would also like to incoporate some kind of power up system, say you're playing as John Matrix (Commando), the power up item will turn you for a brief time into Conan the Barbarian.  Or if you were 90's Steven Segal, the power up would turn you into fat Louisiana cop Segal.

Any other tropes from those films and game mechanics you guys think would work?

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This era was also the golden age of action movies. You had the one-man-army movies, the supercop flicks, the buddy cop films. Although the concepts of these films are rooted more in the exploitation films of the late 60's and early 70's, outside of the Horror genre, they became the staple diet of 80's and early to mid 90's cinema. These types of films made Jean Claude Van Damme, Steven Segal, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger household names.

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I grew up in the 80's and 90's. The golden age of 8 and 16 bit gaming. While I love many different types of games, my favorites from this era will always be the side scrolling arcade style beat-em-ups. Think Double Dragon, Streets of Rage, etc.