Streets of Rage 2! I loved playing that game, specially with co-op. All 3d visuals but keep the side-scrolling beat'em up gameplay. or Golden Axe, as pogonip mentioned.
Danr: I hear you man, I hear you Sensible World of Soccer is screaming for a remake, even if it's just web based or for the DS/PSP- it did something that few footy games have managed to do, which is merge the 2 ends of the football game spectrum and get a football action game which actually had management features. I would…