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Fighting games are characterized by close combat between two fighters or groups of fighters of comparable strength, often broken into rounds or stocks. If multiple players are involved, players generally fight against each other. Note: Games are listed in a "common English title/alternate title - developer" format, where applicable.


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Fighting games that use 2D sprites. Games tend to emphasize the height of attacks (high, medium, or low), and jumping. *''
Aggressors of Dark Kombat ''Aggressors of Dark Kombat'', known in Japan as or ''GanGan'', is a 1994 fighting arcade game developed by Alpha Denshi Corp. (ADK) and published by SNK. It was also released on SNK's Neo Geo AES and Neo Geo CD home consoles, and in later d ...
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Tecmo , was a Japanese video game corporation founded in 1967. It had its headquarters in Kudankita, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its subsidiary, Tecmo Inc, was located in Torrance, California. Tecmo was formerly known as Tehkan. Tecmo is known for the ''Captain ...
*'' Akatsuki EN-Eins'' series - Subtle Style **''Akatsuki Shisei Ichigō'' **''Akatsuki Blitzkampf'' **''Akatsuki Blitzkampf Ausf. Achse'' **''EN-Eins Perfektewelt'' **''EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis'' *'' Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match'' / Examu *'' Arcana Heart'' series -
Examu Examu, formerly known as Yuki Enterprise, was a Japanese video game company founded in 2000. It mostly produced fighting games for arcades and home consoles. It is known for owning Team Arcana, the developer of the original intellectual property ...
**''Arcana Heart'' **''Arcana Heart Full!'' **''
Arcana Heart 2 is a 2D arcade fighting game series developed by Team Arcana (originally co-owned with its former parent company Examu). The first edition was released to arcades (mostly in Japan, but a few in other countries) in late 2007. The games feature ...
'' **''Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2'' **''
Arcana Heart 3 is a 2011 2D arcade fighting game developed by Team Arcana (the first three updates co-developed with Examu (formerly Yuki Enterprise)) and published by Arc System Works. It is the third entry in the ''Arcana Heart'' series, following the events ...
'' **''Arcana Heart 3: Love MAX!!!!!'' **''Arcana Heart 3 Love Max: Six Stars!!!!!!'' **''Arcana Heart 3 Love Max: Six Stars!!!!!! XTEND'' *''
Art of Fighting is a fighting video game trilogy that were released for the Neo Geo platform in the early 1990s. It was the second fighting game franchise created by SNK, following the ''Fatal Fury'' series and is set in the same fictional universe as a pr ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
**''Art of Fighting'' **''Art of Fighting 2'' **''Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior'' *''
Astra Superstars is a 1998 2D versus fighting arcade game illustrated and designed by SANTACLAUS, developed and published by Sunsoft, and distributed by Tecmo in Japan on June 6, 1998. It is Sunsoft's fourth fighting game after the 1994 Super Famicom ''Hebere ...
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Sunsoft , stylized as SUNSOFT, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Sunsoft is the video games division of Japanese electronics manufacturer Sun Corporation. Its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sun Corporation of America, though, a ...
*''Asura'' series - Fuuki **'' Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty'' **'' Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors '' *'' Asuka 120% series'' **''Asuka 120% Burning Festival'' - Fill-in-Cafe **''Asuka 120% Excellent Burning Festival'' - Fill-in-Cafe / FamilySoft **''Asuka 120% Maxima Burning Festival'' - Fill-in-Cafe **''Asuka 120% Special Burning Festival'' - FamilySoft **''Asuka 120% Limited Burning Festival'' - Kodansha **''Asuka 120% Final Burning Festival'' - FamilySoft / SUCCESS **''Asuka 120% Return Burning Festival'' - FamilySoft *'' Avengers in Galactic Storm'' -
Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
*''Aazohm Krypht'' - Logitron *''Bangkok Knights'' - System 3 *'' Battle Blaze'' - American Sammy *'' Battle Beast'' - 7th Level *'' Battle K-Road'' -
Psikyo Psikyo was a Japanese video game developer and publisher known for its shoot 'em ups and undressing mahjong games. It was founded in 1992 by former Video System staff who worked on the ''Aero Fighters'' series. Psikyo was mainly an arcade game de ...
*''Battle Master: Kyuukyoku no Senshitachi'' - System Vision *''
Battle Monsters is a versus fighting game developed by feelplus, Scarab for the Sega Saturn. It was originally published by Naxat Soft in Japan and later published in North America and Europe by Acclaim Entertainment. Similar to Atari Games, Atari's Pit-Fighte ...
'' - Naxat Soft *''BattleCry'' - Home Data *'' Barbarian'' series **'' Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior / Death Sword'' -
Palace Software Palace Software was a British video game publisher and Video game developer, developer during the 1980s based in London, England. It was notable for the ''Barbarian'' and ''Cauldron'' series of games for 8-bit home computer platforms, in particu ...
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Palace Software Palace Software was a British video game publisher and Video game developer, developer during the 1980s based in London, England. It was notable for the ''Barbarian'' and ''Cauldron'' series of games for 8-bit home computer platforms, in particu ...
*''Best of Best'' - SunA *''Bible Fight'' - This is Pop *''
Big Bang Beat ''Big Bang Beat - 1st Impression -'' is a dōjin fighting game made by NRF based on the eroge ' by AliceSoft (sometimes Alice Soft) was established in 1989, as an eroge developer and publisher for the computer market, first for the PC-88 and ...
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Bikini Karate Babes ''Bikini Karate Babes'' is a 2002 2D fighting video game that uses digitized graphics, developed by Creative Edge Studios. It features an all-female cast of 19 fighters, all clad in bikinis and played by real actresses. The game was developed as ...
'' - Creative Edge Studios *'' Black Belt'' - Earthware Computer Services *'' Black Hole Assault'' - Micronet *''
Blandia is a weapons-based versus fighting game developed and released into video arcades by Allumer in 1992. It is the sequel to Allumer's ''Gladiator''. Along with Strata's ''Time Killers'', ''Blandia'' is one of the earliest weapon-based fighting ga ...
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Allumer , was a video game production company, established in February 1978 and headquartered in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. The company suspended business in October 5, 1999. In February 2023, Japanese video game publisher Hamster Corporation acquired the righ ...
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BlazBlue ''BlazBlue'' is a fighting video game series developed and published in Japan by Arc System Works, and later localized in North America by Aksys Games and in Europe by Zen United. An anime adaptation aired in Autumn 2013. The series has sold 1. ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
**'' BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger'' **''BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Portable'' **'' BlazBlue: Continuum Shift'' **''BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II'' **'' BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale'' **''BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend'' **'' BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma'' **'' BlayzBloo: Clone Phantasma'' **''BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend'' **'' BlazBlue: Central Fiction'' **'' BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle'' *'' Blood Warrior / Ooedo Fight'' -
Kaneko , stylized as KANEJapanese
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Body Blows ''Body Blows'' is a 1993 fighting game, developed and published by Team17 for Amiga. A version for MS-DOS followed the same year. The game has been compared to ''Street Fighter II''. It was followed by '' Body Blows Galactic'' and '' Ultimate Bod ...
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Body Blows ''Body Blows'' is a 1993 fighting game, developed and published by Team17 for Amiga. A version for MS-DOS followed the same year. The game has been compared to ''Street Fighter II''. It was followed by '' Body Blows Galactic'' and '' Ultimate Bod ...
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Team17 Team17 Group plc is a British video game developer and publisher based in Wakefield, England. The venture was created in December 1990 through the merger of British publisher 17-Bit Software and Swedish developer Team 7. At the time, the two co ...
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Body Blows Galactic ''Body Blows Galactic'' is a fighting game developed and published by Team17 in 1993 for the Amiga computers. It is a sequel to 1992's ''Body Blows''. Opponents and background graphics from both games were later merged into the compilation releas ...
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Team17 Team17 Group plc is a British video game developer and publisher based in Wakefield, England. The venture was created in December 1990 through the merger of British publisher 17-Bit Software and Swedish developer Team 7. At the time, the two co ...
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Team17 Team17 Group plc is a British video game developer and publisher based in Wakefield, England. The venture was created in December 1990 through the merger of British publisher 17-Bit Software and Swedish developer Team 7. At the time, the two co ...
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Denton Designs Denton Designs was a British video game developer based in Liverpool. The company was founded in 1984 and initially specialised in developing software for the ZX Spectrum home computer. Amongst the founders were developers who had worked on the ...
*'' Breakers/Breakers Revenge'' - Visco *'' Brutal: Paws of Fury'' series **'' Brutal: Paws of Fury'' -
GameTek GameTek was an American video game publisher based in North Miami Beach, Florida known for publishing video game adaptations of game shows in the late 1980s and early 1990s. GameTek was a trade name for IJE, the owner of electronic publishing rig ...
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GameTek GameTek was an American video game publisher based in North Miami Beach, Florida known for publishing video game adaptations of game shows in the late 1980s and early 1990s. GameTek was a trade name for IJE, the owner of electronic publishing rig ...
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Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the ...
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Burning Rival is a 1993 fighting arcade game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega. It was released exclusively in Japan in July 1993. It was also the first fighting game developed by Sega AM2. ''Virtua Fighter'' and ''Shenmue'' creator Yu Suzuki i ...
'' - Sega *'' Capcom Fighting Evolution'' - Capcom *''Capital Punishment'' - ClickBOOM *''Capoeira Fighter'' series - Spiritonin **''Capoeira Fighter'' **''Capoeira Fighter 2'' **''Capoeira Fighter 3'' *'' Catfight'' - Atlantean Interactive Games *'' Chinese Hero'' - Taiyo System *'' Chaos Code'' – FK Digital pty ltd. *'' Cho Aniki: Bakuretsu Ranto Hen'' - NCS *''
Chop Suey Chop suey () is a dish in American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, consisting of meat (usually chicken, pork, beef, shrimp or fish) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery a ...
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English Software The English Software Company, later shortened to English Software, was a Manchester, UK-based video game developer and publisher that operated from 1982 until 1987. Starting with its first release, the horizontally scrolling shooter ''Airstrike ...
*''Choy Lee Fut: Kung-Fu Warrior'' - Positive (company) * ''ClayFighter'' series - Interplay **''
ClayFighter ''ClayFighter'' is a fighting/beat 'em up series of video games. The series is noted for having character sprites rendered from clay-animated figures, and for having humorous parodies of other fighting games such as ''Street Fighter'' and ''M ...
'' **'' ClayFighter: Tournament Edition'' **'' ClayFighter 2 / ClayFighter 2: Judgement Clay / C2: Judgement Clay'' **''
ClayFighter 63⅓ ''ClayFighter 63⅓'' is a 1997 fighting game developed and published by Interplay Productions for the Nintendo 64. It is the third installment of the ''ClayFighter'' series. The title is a parody of the "64" suffix common with the Nintendo 64's ...
'' **'' ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut'' *''Crimson Alive'' - Keropyon **''Crimson Alive: Genesis of The Heretic'' - Keropyon **''Crimson Alive: Burst Again'' - Keropyon **''Crimson Alive: Extreme Encounter'' - Keropyon *''Cross Theater'' - ABC Maru *'' Cosmic Carnage'' - Sega *'' Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness'' - Capcom *''Daemon Bride'' series - Examu **''Daemon Bride'' - Examu **''Daemon Bride: Additional Gain'' - Examu *''
Dangerous Streets ''Dangerous Streets'' is a fighting game developed by Micromania and released by Flair Software for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, and MS-DOS MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating syste ...
'' - Micromania (video game developer) *'' Darkstalkers'' series - Capcom **'' Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors'' **'' Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge'' **''
Darkstalkers 3 ''Vampire Savior'', also known as ''Darkstalkers 3'', is a fighting game developed and published by Capcom for arcades in 1997. It is the third game in the '' Darkstalkers'' series. The story centers around a demonic nobleman from Makai named J ...
'' **'' Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge'' **'' Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire'' *''
Dino Rex is a Fighting game, fighting Arcade game, arcade video game developed and originally released by Taito in Japan in November 1992. Set during the 25th century BC on a Prehistory, prehistoric South America, players assume the role of a warrior com ...
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Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. I ...
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Divekick ''Divekick'' is a 2D competitive fighting game originally developed by One True Game Studios, an independent collective of competitive gamers. A demo of the game was showcased at several competitive events, and after a positive reaction, the grou ...
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Iron Galaxy Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC is an American video game developer studio founded on August 14, 2008, and based in Chicago, Illinois, with a second studio in Orlando, Florida that was opened in 2012 and a third studio in Austin, Texas. Iron Galaxy ...
*'' Doomsday Warrior Taiketsu!! Brass Numbers(Japanese name)'' - Renovation Productions Inc. *'' Double Dragon: The Movie'' - Technos *'' Dr. Doom's Revenge'' -
Empire Interactive Empire Interactive was a British video game developer and publisher based in London. Founded in 1987 by Ian Higgins and Simon Jeffrey, it was acquired by Silverstar Holdings in 2006 and went out of business in 2009. History Empire Interacti ...
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Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
**'' Custom Beat Battle: Draglade'' **''Draglade 2'' *'' Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'' -
Virgin Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. The term ''virgin'' originally only referred to sexually inexperienced women, but has evolved to encompass a range of definitions, as found in traditional, modern ...
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Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...
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Dragon Master ''Dragon Master'' is a 1994 2D fighting arcade game developed and published by South Korean company UNiCO Electronics. It was released during the fighting game trend in the early 1990s that started with Capcom's ''Street Fighter II''. ''Dragon M ...
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Dragoon Might is a 2D competitive fighting game produced by Konami and released as a coin-operated video game in August 1995. Gameplay ''Dragoon Might'' features two distinct game modes. A single match mode in which the player must defeat their opponents in ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Coktel Vision Coktel Vision (also known as Coktel and Coktel Studio) was a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris. It was best known for its educational and adventure games. History Coktel Vision was founded in 1984 by Roland Oskian, ...
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Eternal Champions ''Eternal Champions'' is a 1993 fighting game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It was one of the few fighting games of its time developed from the ground up as a home console title, rather than being released in arcades fi ...
'' **'' Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side'' *''
Eternal Fighter Zero , known as Tasofro for short, is a Japanese ''dojin'' game developer. They are best known for their collaborations with Team Shanghai Alice ( ZUN), which include seven official games in the '' Touhou Project'' series. Productions Games Musi ...
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Tasogare Frontier , known as Tasofro for short, is a Japanese ''dojin'' game developer. They are best known for their collaborations with Team Shanghai Alice ( ZUN), which include seven official games in the '' Touhou Project'' series. Productions Games Music ...
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Psikyo Psikyo was a Japanese video game developer and publisher known for its shoot 'em ups and undressing mahjong games. It was founded in 1992 by former Video System staff who worked on the ''Aero Fighters'' series. Psikyo was mainly an arcade game de ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
**'' Fatal Fury: King of Fighters'' **''
Fatal Fury 2 ''Fatal Fury 2'', known as in Japan, is a 1992 fighting video game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms, and later ported to several other home systems. It is the sequel to '' Fatal Fury: King of Fighters'' (1991) and the ...
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Fatal Fury Special ''Fatal Fury Special'', known as in Japan, is a 1993 fighting game developed and published by SNK and originally released for the Neo Geo (console), Neo Geo arcade and home platforms. It is an updated version of 1992's ''Fatal Fury 2'', introduc ...
'' **'' Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory'' **''
Real Bout Fatal Fury ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' is a 1995 fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo (console), Neo-Geo arcade and home platforms. It is the fifth installment in the ''Fatal Fury (series), Fatal Fury'' series, following ''Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Fi ...
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Real Bout Fatal Fury Special ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'' is a 1997 fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo platform. It is the sixth installment in the ''Fatal Fury'' series and the second game in the ''Real Bout'' sub-series, following the original '' Real Bou ...
'' **'' Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers'' **'' Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special: Dominated Mind'' **'' Fatal Fury: 1st Contact'' **'' Garou: Mark of the Wolves'' *''
Fighter's History is a series of fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original ''Fighter's History'' was first released for the arcades in 1993 and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Two different seque ...
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Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
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Fighter's History is a series of fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original ''Fighter's History'' was first released for the arcades in 1993 and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Two different seque ...
'' **'' Fighter's History Dynamite'' **'' Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!'' *''Fightin' Spirit'' - Lightshock Software *''
Fighting Masters is a 1991 fighting video game developed by Almanic Corporation, in conjunction with Aicom and ALU, and published for the Sega Genesis in Japan and later in North America by Treco. In the game, players assume the role of a hero to fight against ...
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Treco Treco, also credited as Treco Corporation Limited, American Treco and Treco, USA, was a game developer and publisher located in Torrance, California. Treco produced games for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive from 1990 to 1993. Treco was a subsidiary of S ...
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Toei Animation () is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. It has produced numerous series, including ''Sally the Witch,'' '' GeGeGe no Kitarō,'' '' Mazinger Z'', '' Galaxy Express 999'', '' Cutie Honey'', '' Dr. Slu ...
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Zeppelin A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin () who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874Eckener 1938, pp ...
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Fist of the North Star is a Japanese manga series written by Buronson and illustrated by Tetsuo Hara. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' for 245 issues published from 1983 to 1988 and initially collected in 27 ' ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*'' Fight Fever / Wang Jung Wang'' - Viccom *'' Flash Hiders'' series - Right Stuff **''Flash Hiders'' **''Battle Tycoon: Flash Hiders SFX'' *''FOOTSIES'' series - HiFight **''FOOTSIES'' **''FOOTSIES: Rollback Edition'' *'' Fu'un'' series -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Savage Reign ''Savage Reign'' is 1995 weapon-based versus fighting game released by SNK for their Neo Geo (console), Neo Geo arcade and home platform. It was ported to the Neo Geo CD, as well as for the PlayStation 2 along with its sequel ''Kizuna Encounter'' ...
'' **'' Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle'' *'' Fuuka Taisen'' - Rei no Mono *''
Galactic Warriors is a 1985 fighting arcade video game developed and published by Konami. It is Konami's second fighting game released after their 1985 arcade-hit '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu''. It is also the first fighting game with multiple playable characters with dif ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Sunsoft , stylized as SUNSOFT, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Sunsoft is the video games division of Japanese electronics manufacturer Sun Corporation. Its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sun Corporation of America, though, a ...
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Domark Square Enix Limited (formerly Domark Limited and Eidos Interactive Limited) is a British subsidiary of the Japanese video game company Square Enix, acting as their European publishing arm. The company formerly owned ''Tomb Raider'', which was in ...
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Glove on Fight is a doujin boxing video game released at the Comic Revolution 31 convention in May 2002 by Watanabe Seisakujo (now French-Bread). The name of the game is a take on "'' Groove on Fight''", which is a sequel of the '' Power Instinct'' series, tho ...
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French-Bread is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1995 as . Originally a dōjin circle, French Bread became well known for their work in 2D fighting games, particularly the ''Melty Blood'' series. In recent years, they worked on other licensed-based ...
*'' Golden Axe: The Duel'' - Sega *''
Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
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Gremlin Graphics Gremlin Graphics Software Limited, later Gremlin Interactive Limited and ultimately Infogrames Studios Limited was a British software house based in Sheffield, working mostly in the home computer market. Like many software houses established in ...
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Hiryu no Ken ''Hiryū'' ( ja, 飛龍), meaning "Flying Dragon" may refer to: * Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryū'' * Mitsubishi Ki-67 ''Hiryū'', Japanese Army bomber *Strider Hiryu, a ninja-like video game character * Flying Dragon, a video game series known ...
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Culture Brain is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded on October 5, 1980. In 2016, it was renamed Culture Brain Excel. History Culture Brain was founded in 1980 as Nihon Game Corporation. In 1981, a subsidiary to handle the sales operations ...
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Tomy is a Japanese entertainment company that makes children's toys and merchandise. It was created from a merger on March 1st 2006 of two companies: Tomy (founded in 1924 as Tomiyama, changing the name to Tomy in 1963) and long-time rival Ta ...
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Holosseum is a 1992 fighting arcade game developed and published by Sega. The name is a portmanteau of holography and colosseum, due to it being a fighting game created exclusively for Sega's hi-tech hologram theater cabinet, and is the second and last ...
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Tiertex Tiertex Design Studios Limited was a British software development company and former video game developer based in Macclesfield, England; it was founded in 1986, focusing on porting games to home computers and handheld platforms. As a video game ...
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Team Shanghai Alice , formerly known as ZUN Soft, is a Japanese ''dōjin'' game developer. Since 1995, the sole member of the group, Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed and self-published the '' Touhou Project'', a bullet hell shoot 'em up series, as w ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
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International Karate ''International Karate'' is a fighting game developed and published by System 3 for the ZX Spectrum in 1985 and ported to various home computers over the following years. In the United States it was published by Epyx in 1986 as ''World Karate ...
'' series **'' International Karate / World Karate Championship'' - System 3 **'' IK+ / International Karate + / Chop N' Drop'' - System 3 *''Istanbul Beyleri'' series - AKEMRE **''Istanbul Beyleri'' **''Istanbul Beyleri 2'' *''
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1987 to 2004, and was transferred to the monthly ''seinen'' manga ...
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Joy Mech Fight , sometimes called ''Joy Mecha Fight'', is a fighting game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer, released only in Japan on May 21, 1993. The game was released during the generation shift between the Famicom and the newer ...
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Ganbarion Ganbarion (ガンバリオン ''Ganbarion'') is a Japanese video game company founded on August 13, 1999. Their function is the planning/development of home video game software. Two of Ganbarion's major clients are Bandai Namco Entertainment an ...
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Jump Super Stars ''Jump Super Stars'' is a 2D crossover fighting game for the Nintendo DS, based on ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' characters. It was developed by Ganbarion and published by Nintendo. The game was released on August 8, 2005, in Japan and accompanied th ...
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Jump Ultimate Stars Jumping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jump or Jumping also may refer to: Places * Jump, Kentucky or Jump S ...
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Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three gradu ...
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Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. I ...
*''Karate Master Knock Down Blow'' - Crian Soft *'' Karate'' - Ultravision *''
Karate Champ ''Karate Champ'', known in Japan as , is a 1984 arcade fighting game developed by Technōs Japan (which would later developing 1995 Neo Geo titles '' Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer'' with SNK) and released by Data East. A variety of moves can be per ...
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Technos Japan Corporation Technos may refer to: * Technos (watches), a watch brand established 1900 in Switzerland * Technōs Japan, a defunct Japanese video game developer, 1981–1996 * Techno Twins The Techno Twins (later known simply as The Technos) were a British ...
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Superior Software Superior Software Ltd (also known as Superior Interactive) is a video game publisher. It was one of the main publishers for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in the 1980s and early 1990s. It currently releases games for Microsoft Windo ...
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Karateka (; ; Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fujian ...
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Jordan Mechner Jordan Mechner (born June 4, 1964) is an American video game designer, author, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He is best known for designing and programming the Broderbund Apple II games ''Karateka'' and '' Prince of Persia'' in the 1980s, the la ...
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Kasumi Ninja ''Kasumi Ninja'' is a fighting game, developed by Hand Made Software and published by Atari Corporation. Initially it was for the Atari Jaguar in North America and Europe on December 21, 1994, and was later released in Japan by Messe Sanoh in Jul ...
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Zeppelin A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin () who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874Eckener 1938, pp ...
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Killer Instinct ''Killer Instinct'' is a series of fighting video games originally created by Rare and published by Midway, Nintendo, and Microsoft Studios. The original ''Killer Instinct'' was released for arcades in 1994; the game was then released for ...
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Killer Instinct 2 ''Killer Instinct 2'' is a fighting video game developed by Rare and manufactured by Midway for arcades in 1996 as a sequel to ''Killer Instinct'' (1994). A modified version of ''Killer Instinct 2'' was published for the Nintendo 64 as '' Kille ...
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Killer Instinct Gold ''Killer Instinct Gold'' is a 1996 fighting video game based on the arcade game '' Killer Instinct 2''. The game was developed by Rare and released by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. As in other series entries, p ...
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The King of Fighters ''The King of Fighters'' (''KOF'') is a series of fighting games by SNK that began with the release of '' The King of Fighters '94'' in 1994. The series was developed originally for SNK's Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware. This served as the main p ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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The King of Fighters '94 ''The King of Fighters '94'' (''KOF 94'') is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo (system), Neo Geo-based arcade game, arcade system in 1994, as the first in ''The King of Fighters'' series. The game was also released for the Neo Geo ...
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The King of Fighters '95 ''(KOF '95)'' is a fighting game produced by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1995. It is the sequel to '' The King of Fighters '94'' and the second game in '' The King of Fighters'' series. It is also the first game in the ser ...
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The King of Fighters '96 ''(KOF '96)'' is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1996. It is the third game in ''The King of Fighters'' series, following ''The King of Fighters '95''. Like its predecessor, the game was ported to the N ...
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The King of Fighters '97 ''(KOF '97)'' is a fighting game produced by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home console in 1997. It is the fourth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series. It was ported to the Neo-Geo CD, as well as the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn in Japan ...
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The King of Fighters '98 ''The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest'', known in Japan as ''The King of Fighters '98: Dream Match Never Ends (KOF '98)'', is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1998. It is the fifth game in ''The Kin ...
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The King of Fighters '99 ''The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle'' (''KOF '99'') is a 1999 fighting game developed and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1999. It is the sixth installment in ''The King of Fighters'' series, introducing a ...
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The King of Fighters 2000 ''(KOF 2000, or KOF '00)'' is a fighting video game that was produced by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 2000. It is the seventh installment in ''The King of Fighters'' series for the Neo Geo and the final game in the series SNK ...
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The King of Fighters 2001 ''(KOF 2001, or KOF '01)'' is a fighting game produced by Eolith (company), Eolith for the Neo Geo (console), Neo Geo. It is the eighth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series, the third and final part of the "NESTS Chronicles" story arc, and the ...
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The King of Fighters 2002 ''(KOF 2002, or KOF '02)'' is a fighting game produced by Eolith and Playmore for the Neo Geo in 2002. It is the ninth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series and the second one to be produced by Eolith and developed by Playmore (formerly Brez ...
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The King of Fighters 2003 ''(KOF 2003, or KOF '03)'', also known by fans as is a fighting game produced by SNK Playmore for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms in 2003. It is the tenth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series and the last one released for the Neo Geo, ...
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The King of Fighters XI ''(KOF XI)'' is a 2D fighting game produced by SNK Playmore. It is the eleventh installment in ''The King of Fighters'' series following '' The King of Fighters 2003''. It was originally released as a coin-operated arcade game for the Atomiswa ...
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The King of Fighters XII (''KOF XII'') is the twelfth installment of ''The King of Fighters'' series of fighting games developed and published by SNK Playmore. The game was originally released in Japan in April 2009 for arcades. Home versions of the title for Xbox 360 an ...
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The King of Fighters XIII ''(KOF XIII)'' is a fighting game in ''The King of Fighters'' series, developed and published by SNK Playmore originally in 2010. ''King of Fighters XIII'' was released for Japanese arcades on July 14, 2010, while ports for the Xbox 360 and Play ...
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Knight Games ''Knight Games'' is a 1986 video game published by Mastertronic. Gameplay ''Knight Games'' is a game in which swords, battle axes, quarterstaves, and maces are the weapons available for Medieval dueling. Reception David M. Wilson reviewed the ga ...
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English Software The English Software Company, later shortened to English Software, was a Manchester, UK-based video game developer and publisher that operated from 1982 until 1987. Starting with its first release, the horizontally scrolling shooter ''Airstrike ...
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Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...
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Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...
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Kaneko , stylized as KANEJapanese
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Martial Champion is a 1993 fighting game released for the arcades by Konami. It was Konami's third fighting game after the 1985 releases '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' and '' Galactic Warriors'' and the 1986 release '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu II'', and their first release that ca ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Marvel vs. Capcom is a series of crossover fighting games developed and published by Capcom, featuring characters from their own video game franchises and comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series originated as coin-operated arcade games, though ...
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X-Men vs. Street Fighter is a crossover fighting video game developed and published by Capcom. It is Capcom's third fighting game to feature Marvel Comics characters, following '' X-Men: Children of the Atom'' and '' Marvel Super Heroes'', and is the first installment ...
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Marvel vs. Capcom is a series of crossover fighting games developed and published by Capcom, featuring characters from their own video game franchises and comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series originated as coin-operated arcade games, though ...
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Paragon Software Paragon Software Corporation was an American video game developer based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Founded on December 12, 1985, by Mark E. Seremet and Antony Davies, the company was best known for games developed around licenses from Marv ...
*''Matsumura Kunihiro Den: Saikyō no Rekishi o Nurikaero!'' - Shouei *''
Melty Blood , sometimes shortened as , is a series of 2D visual novel fighting games, co-developed by dōjin circles Type-Moon and French-Bread as the meta-sequel of the Type-Moon's first visual novel ''Tsukihime''. The first game was originall ...
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French-Bread is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1995 as . Originally a dōjin circle, French Bread became well known for their work in 2D fighting games, particularly the ''Melty Blood'' series. In recent years, they worked on other licensed-based ...
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Ecole Software This is a list of Notability, notable video game companies that have made games for either computers (like PC or Mac), video game consoles, handheld or mobile devices, and includes companies that currently exist as well as now-defunct companies. ...
**'' Melty Blood: Type Lumina'' *''Metal & Lace: Battle of the Robo Babes'' - Forest *''
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ''Mighty Power Rangers'' (''MMPR'') is a superhero television series that premiered on August 28, 1993, on the Fox Kids programming block. It is the first entry of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, and became a 1990s pop culture phenomenon along ...
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ''Mighty Power Rangers'' (''MMPR'') is a superhero television series that premiered on August 28, 1993, on the Fox Kids programming block. It is the first entry of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, and became a 1990s pop culture phenomenon along ...
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ''Mighty Power Rangers'' (''MMPR'') is a superhero television series that premiered on August 28, 1993, on the Fox Kids programming block. It is the first entry of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, and became a 1990s pop culture phenomenon along ...
'' (Sega Game Gear) **'' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie'' (Sega Game Gear) **'' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition'' *''Mighty Warriors'' - Electronic Devices/Electtronica Video-Games SRL *'' Million Arthur: Arcana Blood'' -
Examu Examu, formerly known as Yuki Enterprise, was a Japanese video game company founded in 2000. It mostly produced fighting games for arcades and home consoles. It is known for owning Team Arcana, the developer of the original intellectual property ...
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Team Arcana Team Arcana is a Japanese video game developer and a successor of Examu, which mostly produce fighting games for arcades and home console A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display dev ...
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Mortal Kombat II ''Mortal Kombat II'' is a 1993 arcade fighting game originally produced by Midway for the arcades in 1993. It was later ported to multiple home systems, including MS-DOS, Amiga, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, 32X, Sega Saturn, Super Nint ...
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Mortal Kombat 3 ''Mortal Kombat 3'' is a 1995 arcade fighting game developed by Midway Games and first released into arcades in 1995. It is the third main installment in the '' Mortal Kombat'' franchise and a sequel to 1993's ''Mortal Kombat II''. As in the p ...
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Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'' is a fighting game in the '' Mortal Kombat'' series, developed and released by Midway to arcades in 1995. It is a standalone update of 1995's earlier ''Mortal Kombat 3'' with an altered gameplay system, additional c ...
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Neo Geo Battle Coliseum , abbreviated ''NGBC'' or ''NBC'', is a 2-on-2 tag team fighting game designed for the Atomiswave arcade board developed and released by SNK in 2005. The game features characters from several SNK and ADK titles. Subsequently, a PlayStation 2 vers ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Entertainment USA ''Entertainment USA'' was a British television series broadcast by the BBC. It was first shown on BBC2 in 1983, ran for eight years and was devised and presented by Jonathan King. The show presented entertainment news, clips, interviews and ...
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Mastertronic Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was one of the largest software publishers in the UK, achieved by ...
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Ninja Hamster ''Ninja Hamster'' is a 2D computer graphics, 2D fighting video game published by CRL Group, CRL for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Gameplay ''Ninja Hamster'' plays like other fighting games. The player-controlled hamster is on o ...
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Ninja Master's , is a ninja-themed 2D fighting game produced by ADK and originally released in 1996 for the Neo Geo arcade and home platform. ''Ninja Master's'' was the sixth and final fighting game produced by ADK, following the four games in the ''World He ...
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Nitroplus Nitroplus Co., Ltd., currently styled as NITRO PLUS, formerly stylized as nitro+, and formerly known as "OKStyle", is a Japanese visual novel video game developer that has developed a number of visual novels, including eroge. They also have been ...
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Ōgon Musōkyoku ''Umineko: Golden Fantasia'', known in Japan as just , is a 2D versus fighting game developed and published by 07th Expansion. It is a spin-off of the ''Umineko When They Cry'' murder mystery visual novel series and was originally released at C ...
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07th Expansion 07th Expansion is a Japanese dōjin circle specialized in the creation of visual novels and sound. They started out drawing for the trading card game ''Leaf Fight'', but are known for creating the game series '' When They Cry''. The remake games ...
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Culture Brain is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded on October 5, 1980. In 2016, it was renamed Culture Brain Excel. History Culture Brain was founded in 1980 as Nihon Game Corporation. In 1981, a subsidiary to handle the sales operations ...
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Loriciels Loriciel (also sometimes Loriciels) was a French video game developing company that was active from 1983 to the early 1990s. The name is a combination of ''logiciel'', the French word for software, and ''Oric'' which was the first computer they ...
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Persona 4 Arena ''Persona 4 Arena'' is a fighting video game co-developed by Atlus and Arc System Works for arcades, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360; the game is a spin-off from the ''Persona'' series, itself part of the larger ''Megami Tensei'' franchise. The game ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax ''Persona 4 Arena Ultimax'' is a fighting video game co-developed by Atlus and Arc System Works. It was released for arcades in 2013, and for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2014 by Atlus in Japan and North America and by Sega in Europe. Versions ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Mages (company) , formerly , is a Japanese video game developer and record label for video game and anime music. It was formed on April 6, 2005 after Chiyomaru Shikura left Scitron to begin the company as its executive director, a position he still holds. Th ...
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Mages (company) , formerly , is a Japanese video game developer and record label for video game and anime music. It was formed on April 6, 2005 after Chiyomaru Shikura left Scitron to begin the company as its executive director, a position he still holds. Th ...
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Mages (company) , formerly , is a Japanese video game developer and record label for video game and anime music. It was formed on April 6, 2005 after Chiyomaru Shikura left Scitron to begin the company as its executive director, a position he still holds. Th ...
* Photo Dojo - Nintendo *'' Pit-Fighter: The Ultimate Competition'' - Atari Games *'' Power Instinct/Goketsuji Ichizoku'' series - Atlus **''Power Instinct'' **''Power Instinct 2'' **''Gogetsuji Legends'' **'' Groove on Fight'' **'' Matrimelee'' **''Shin Goketsuji Ichizoku: Bonnou no Kaihou'' **''Gōketsuji Ichizoku Matsuri Senzo Kuyou'' *''
Power Moves Power moves are dance moves which are loosely defined as moves relying on speed, momentum, and acrobatic elements for performance. They are prominent in B-boying, often the centerpieces of routines featuring the other elements (toprock, downrock, ...
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Kaneko , stylized as KANEJapanese
Pray For Death ''Pray for Death'' is a 1985 American martial arts action film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Sho Kosugi, James Booth, Norman Burton, Michael Constantine, and, the lead's sons Kane and Shane Kosugi. The plot follows a retired ninja war ...
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Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive Entertainment (later renamed Avalon Interactive) was the video game publishing division of British conglomerate the Virgin Group. It developed and published games for major platforms and employed developers, including Westwo ...
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Primal Rage ''Primal Rage'' is a fighting game developed and released by Atari Games to arcades in August 1994. The game takes place on a post-apocalyptic version of Earth called "Urth". Players control one of seven large beasts that battle each other to de ...
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Project Cerberus A project is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular goal. An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of even ...
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Milestone A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and other places or landmarks; or they can give their position on the route relative to so ...
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Aorn The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) represents more than 41,000 registered nurses in the United States and abroad who facilitate the management, teaching, and practice of perioperative nursing, or who are enrolled in nursin ...
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Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the ...
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Noise Factory was a Japanese video game developer and publisher based out of Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in J ...
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Ranma ½ is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from August 1987 to March 1996, with the chapters collected into 38 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shogakukan. The s ...
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Rise of the Robots ''Rise of the Robots'' is a fighting game released by Time Warner Interactive in 1994 in video gaming, 1994. Originally developed for the Amiga and DOS by Mirage's Instinct Design, it was Port (video gaming), ported to various video game conso ...
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Mirage Media Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd, d/b/a Mirage Media, was a privately owned video game developer and publisher based in Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom. It was directed by Peter Jones, which continues to operate as a separate company. Mir ...
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Mirage Media Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd, d/b/a Mirage Media, was a privately owned video game developer and publisher based in Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom. It was directed by Peter Jones, which continues to operate as a separate company. Mir ...
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This is Pop This may refer to: * ''This'', the singular proximal demonstrative pronoun Places * This, or ''Thinis'', an ancient city in Upper Egypt * This, Ardennes, a commune in France People with the surname * Hervé This, French culinary chemist Arts, ...
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The Rumble Fish is a 2D fighting game developed by Dimps and first published by Sammy for the Atomiswave arcade platform in 2004, and was later ported by Sega to the Sony PlayStation 2 on March 17, 2005. In 2020, a homebrew conversion was released for the Drea ...
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Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
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The Rumble Fish is a 2D fighting game developed by Dimps and first published by Sammy for the Atomiswave arcade platform in 2004, and was later ported by Sega to the Sony PlayStation 2 on March 17, 2005. In 2020, a homebrew conversion was released for the Drea ...
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Sango Fighter The Sango Fighter games are a series of fighting game for DOS made by the Taiwanese Panda Entertainment. Set in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, it is very similar to ''Street Fighter'' and ''Samurai Shodown'', but with historical c ...
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Panda Entertainment Panda Entertainment, full name Panda Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (), was a video game developer from Taiwan that was active during the 1990s. They developed games for MS-DOS and for the Taiwanese only game console Super A'Can, made by Fu ...
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Sai Combat ''Sai Combat'' is a 1986 fighting video game published by Mirrorsoft for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Gameplay ''Sai Combat'' is a one-on-one fighting game. The sais in the game don't refer to the stabbing weapons but rather long wooden p ...
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Mirrorsoft Mirrorsoft was a British video game publisher founded by Jim Mackonochie as a division of Mirror Group Newspapers. The company was active between 1983 and 1991, and shut down completely in early 1992. History In the early 1980s, Jim Mackono ...
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Angel In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God. Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles inclu ...
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Samurai Deeper Kyo is a manga series written and illustrated by Akimine Kamijyo. Set during the Edo period of Japan's history, ''Samurai Deeper Kyo'' follows , a feared samurai seeking to regain his body after his soul is sealed inside the body of his rival ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Gremlin Graphics Gremlin Graphics Software Limited, later Gremlin Interactive Limited and ultimately Infogrames Studios Limited was a British software house based in Sheffield, working mostly in the home computer market. Like many software houses established in ...
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Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is the second versus fighting game in the Touhou Project, and is the spiritual successor to ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' by Twilight Frontier and Team Shanghai Alice. In the ''Touhou Project'' overall, it is labelled as the 10.5th Touhou game ...
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Team Shanghai Alice , formerly known as ZUN Soft, is a Japanese ''dōjin'' game developer. Since 1995, the sole member of the group, Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed and self-published the '' Touhou Project'', a bullet hell shoot 'em up series, as w ...
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Hot B Co. Ltd. Hot or the acronym HOT may refer to: Food and drink *Pungency, in food, a spicy or hot quality *Hot, a wine tasting descriptor Places *Hot district, a district of Chiang Mai province, Thailand ** Hot subdistrict, a sub-district of Hot Distric ...
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Genki Genki may refer to: *Genki (company), a Japanese video game company *Genki (era), a Japanese era name *Genki (given name) Genki (written: 元気, 元喜, 元基, 元規, 源気 or 源基) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with th ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Gremlin Graphics Gremlin Graphics Software Limited, later Gremlin Interactive Limited and ultimately Infogrames Studios Limited was a British software house based in Sheffield, working mostly in the home computer market. Like many software houses established in ...
*'' Shadow: War of Succession'' - Tribeca Digital Studios *''
Shanghai Karate Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...
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Shaq-Fu ''Shaq Fu'' is a 2D fighting game published by Electronic Arts for the Sega Genesis and Super NES on October 28, 1994. It was developed by the now-defunct Delphine Software International. Versions for the Game Gear, Game Boy, and Amiga follow ...
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Kaneko , stylized as KANEJapanese
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Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...
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SNK Gals' Fighters ''SNK Gals' Fighters'' is a 2-dimensional 1-on-1 versus fighting game which appeared on the Neo Geo Pocket Color in 2000. The game was ported to the Nintendo Switch in the eShop on April 29, 2020, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Neo Geo ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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SNK vs. Capcom ''SNK vs. Capcom'', or alternately ''Capcom vs. SNK'', is a series of crossover video games by either Capcom or SNK featuring characters that appear in games created by either company. Most of these are fighting game, and take on a similar for ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Bubble Bus Bubble Bus Software was a publisher of video game software for home computers in the mid-1980s, founded by Mark Meakins. and based in Tonbridge, Kent. Their releases targeted popular home computers of the time, such as the Commodore 64, VIC-20 and ...
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Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...
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Idea Factory is a Japanese video game developer and video game publisher, publisher founded by former Data East employees in October 1994. A division of the company makes otome games under the name of Otomate. An international branch, Idea Factory Internatio ...
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Spitting Image ''Spitting Image'' is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television ...
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Domark Square Enix Limited (formerly Domark Limited and Eidos Interactive Limited) is a British subsidiary of the Japanese video game company Square Enix, acting as their European publishing arm. The company formerly owned ''Tomb Raider'', which was in ...
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Street Fighter , commonly abbreviated as ''SF'' or スト (''Suto''), is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fighting video and arcade games developed and published by Capcom. The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by six ...
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Street Fighter Alpha 2 ''Street Fighter Alpha 2'', known as in Japan, Asia, South America, and Oceania, is a 1996 fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is a remake to the previous year's '' Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' ...
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Street Fighter Alpha 3 ''Street Fighter Alpha 3'', released as in Japan, Asia, South America, and Oceania, is a 2D fighting game originally released by Capcom for the arcade in 1998. It is the third and final installment in the ''Street Fighter Alpha'' sub-series, wh ...
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Street Fighter Alpha Anthology ''Street Fighter Alpha Anthology'', released in Japan as ''Street Fighter Zero: Fighters Generation'', is a 2006 fighting game compilation that collects the ''Street Fighter Alpha'' series. The game also includes a remixed version of the consol ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*'' Strip Fighter'' series - Games Express *''Sumo Wrestlers'' - HES *'' Super Black Belt Karate'' -
Computer Applications A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations ( computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These pr ...
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Super Fighter ''Super Fighter'' (in Chinese: 快打至尊) is a fighting game for MS-DOS. It was developed by C&E, Inc. of Taiwan, and first released in Taiwan on February 20, 1993. An English version of the game was also released, albeit in much shorter su ...
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Irem is a Japanese video game console developer and publisher, and formerly a developer and manufacturer of arcade games as well. The company has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The full name of the company that uses the brand is Irem Softwa ...
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Survival Arts is a 1993 fighting arcade game developed by Scarab and published by Sammy. It uses digitized images of real actors with blood and gore, similar to Midway's arcade hit '' Mortal Kombat''. Ports for the Super NES and Sega Genesis were annou ...
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Sammy Sammy is a nickname, frequently for people named Samuel, and also an English spelling of the Arabic name Sami. People Music *Sammy Adams (born 1987), American rapper and songwriter * Sammy Cahn (1913-1993), American songwriter * Sammy Davis Jr. ...
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Swashbuckler A swashbuckler is a genre of European adventure literature that focuses on a heroic protagonist stock character who is skilled in swordsmanship, acrobatics, guile and possesses chivalrous ideals. A "swashbuckler" protagonist is heroic, daring, ...
'' - Paul Stephenson *'' Sword Slayer / Spartacus the Swordslayer'' - Players *''
Taekwon-Do ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...
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Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
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Video System Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syste ...
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Tattoo Assassins ''Tattoo Assassins'' is an unreleased 1994 fighting game developed by the pinball division of Data East for release in Arcade game, arcades. A few prototypes were test-marketed, but the game was never officially released. Spearheaded by Bob Gale ...
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Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
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Tatsunoko Fight is a fighting video game developed by Electronics Application (Eleca) and published by Takara for the PlayStation game console released in Japan in October 2000. It features characters from various Tatsunoko superhero properties in addition t ...
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Takara Takara Co., Ltd. (株式会社タカラ) was a Japanese toy company founded in 1955. In March 2006, the company merged with Tomy Co., Ltd. to form Takara Tomy. The Takara motto was 遊びは文化」("playing is culture"). Products Toys In 1 ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Thai Boxing Muay Thai ( th, มวยไทย, , ), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This discipline is known as the "art of eight limbs", as it is characterised ...
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Namco was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...
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Thea Realm Fighters ''Thea Realm Fighters'' (''TRF'') is an unreleased fighting game that was in development by High Voltage Software and planned to be published by Atari Corporation on a scheduled October 1995 release date exclusively for both the Atari Jaguar and ...
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High Voltage Software High Voltage Software, Inc. (HVS) is an American video game developer based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Founded in April 1993 by Kerry J. Ganofsky, the company is best known for developing ''Lego Racers'' (1999), '' Hunter: The Reckoning'' ...
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Them's Fightin' Herds ''Them's Fightin' Herds'' is an indie fighting game developed by Mane6 and published by Maximum Games. It features a cast of all-female ungulate characters fighting each other to find a champion worthy of gaining a magical key that will protect ...
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Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
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Milestone A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and other places or landmarks; or they can give their position on the route relative to so ...
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Martech Martech Games was an early video game publisher based in Pevensey Bay between 1982 and 1989. It published a number of successful video games for the emerging home computer games marketplace, including BBC Model B, Sinclair ZX81, Sinclair Spectrum ...
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Ultra Vortek ''Ultra Vortek'' (also released as ''Ultra Vortex'') is a fighting game developed by Beyond Games and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar in North America and Europe on September 5, 1995. It was the second fighting game released f ...
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Under Night In-Birth is a 2D fighting game co-developed by Ecole Software and French-Bread. It received many updates for adjustments and characters. Gameplay The game has similar mechanics to ''Melty Blood'', ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue''. It uses three attac ...
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French-Bread is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1995 as . Originally a dōjin circle, French Bread became well known for their work in 2D fighting games, particularly the ''Melty Blood'' series. In recent years, they worked on other licensed-based ...
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Ecole Software This is a list of Notability, notable video game companies that have made games for either computers (like PC or Mac), video game consoles, handheld or mobile devices, and includes companies that currently exist as well as now-defunct companies. ...
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Creative Edge Studios Creative may refer to: *Creativity, phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is created * "Creative" (song), a 2008 song by Leon Jackson * Creative class, a proposed socioeconomic class * Creative destruction, an economic term * Creative dir ...
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Urban Champion is a fighting video game developed and published by Nintendo in 1984. It was first released for the Famicom and Nintendo VS. System for arcades in 1984, and later released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe in 19 ...
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Vanguard Princess , also known as ''Vanguard Princess: Senjin no Himegimi'' (ヴァンガードプリンセス 先陣の姫君) is a Japanese dōjin 2D fighting game for Windows and Linux, developed by a single programmer and illustrator Tomoaki Sugeno nicknamed Su ...
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Vanguard Princess Prime The vanguard (also called the advance guard) is the leading part of an advancing military formation. It has a number of functions, including seeking out the enemy and securing ground in advance of the main force. History The vanguard derives fr ...
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Giga Giga ( or ) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of a short-scale billion or long-scale milliard (109 or ). It has the symbol G. ''Giga'' is derived from the Greek word (''gígas''), meaning "giant". The ''Oxford English Dic ...
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Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. I ...
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Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. I ...
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Virtua Fighter is a series of fighting games created by Sega-AM2 and designer Yu Suzuki. The original '' Virtua Fighter'' was released in October 1993 and has received four main sequels and several spin-offs. The highly influential first ''Virtua Fighter'' ga ...
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Aspect Aspect or Aspects may refer to: Entertainment * ''Aspect magazine'', a biannual DVD magazine showcasing new media art * Aspect Co., a Japanese video game company * Aspects (band), a hip hop group from Bristol, England * ''Aspects'' (Benny Carter ...
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Virtua Fighter 2 is a 1994 fighting video game developed by Sega. It is the sequel to 1993's ''Virtua Fighter'' and the second game in the ''Virtua Fighter'' series. It was created by Sega's Yu Suzuki-headed AM2 and was released for the arcades in 1994. Ports ...
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Sega-AM2 previously known as is a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega. Yu Suzuki, who had previously developed arcade games for Sega including ''Hang-On'' and ''Out Run'', was the first manager of t ...
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Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer ''Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer'' is a 1995 superhero-themed head-to-head fighting game produced by Technos Japan Corp. for the Neo Geo arcade and home console. It was the companys second attempt at a fighting game, following the Neo Geo fighting g ...
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VR Troopers ''VR Troopers'' is a syndicated live action superhero-adventure television series produced and distributed by Saban Entertainment from 1994 to 1996. The show tried to profit from the fascination with virtual reality in the mid-1990s as well as th ...
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Waku Waku 7 is a 2D fighting game developed and published by Sunsoft initially as an arcade game for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system in 1996 worldwide. A port for the Nintendo Switch, part of the Arcade Archive collection from the Japanese video game pub ...
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Sunsoft , stylized as SUNSOFT, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Sunsoft is the video games division of Japanese electronics manufacturer Sun Corporation. Its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sun Corporation of America, though, a ...
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The Way of the Exploding Fist ''The Way of the Exploding Fist'' is a 1985 fighting game based on Japanese martial arts developed by Beam Software, by a team consisting of Gregg Barnett, Bruce Bayley, Neil Brennan and David Johnston. Originally developed on the Commodore 64 and ...
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Beam Software Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Melbourne House, was an Australian video game development studio founded in 1980 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen and based in Melbourne, Australia. Initially formed to produce books and software to be pub ...
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Beam Software Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Melbourne House, was an Australian video game development studio founded in 1980 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen and based in Melbourne, Australia. Initially formed to produce books and software to be pub ...
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Beam Software Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Melbourne House, was an Australian video game development studio founded in 1980 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen and based in Melbourne, Australia. Initially formed to produce books and software to be pub ...
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Gremlin Graphics Gremlin Graphics Software Limited, later Gremlin Interactive Limited and ultimately Infogrames Studios Limited was a British software house based in Sheffield, working mostly in the home computer market. Like many software houses established in ...
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Naughty Dog Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Gav ...
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Weaponlord ''Weaponlord'' is a fighting game developed by Visual Concepts and published by Namco for the Super NES and Genesis in October 1995. ''Weaponlord'' has players select a character and defeat a series of opponents. The game is a weapons-based fight ...
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Visual Concepts Visual Concepts Entertainment is an American video game developer based in Novato, California. Founded in May 1988, the company is best known for developing sports games in the ''2K'' franchise, most recently ''NBA 2K'' and '' WWE 2K'', and pr ...
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Ninja Studio was a Japanese video game developer for mobile phone and handheld gaming consoles. It was best known for its ''Izuna the Unemployed Ninja'' series for the Nintendo DS. Ninja Studio was founded in July 2003 with its headquarters in Izumisano, Osaka ...
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World Heroes is a series of four fighting games created originally by ADK with assistance from SNK for the Neo Geo family of arcade and home consoles. Over the years, the games have been ported to various non-SNK platforms as well including the Super N ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Jade Studio TiMi Studio Group (), a subsidiary of Tencent Games, is a video game development studio group headquartered in Shenzhen, China and offices in Singapore, Montréal, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chengdu, and Shanghai. TiMi generated an estimated revenue ...
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Tencent Games Tencent Games () is the video game publishing division of Tencent Interactive Entertainment, itself a division of Tencent Holdings. It has five internal studio groups, including TiMi Studio Group. Tencent Games was founded in 2003 to focus on on ...
*''Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm'' - Yatagarasu Dev Team *''
Yie Ar Kung-Fu () is an arcade fighting game developed by Konami. It first had a limited Japanese release in October 1984, before having a wide release nationwide in January 1985 and then internationally in March 1985. Along with ''Karate Champ'' (1984), which ...
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Yie Ar Kung-Fu () is an arcade fighting game developed by Konami. It first had a limited Japanese release in October 1984, before having a wide release nationwide in January 1985 and then internationally in March 1985. Along with ''Karate Champ'' (1984), which ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Imagine Imagine may refer to: * Imagination Music Albums * ''Imagine'' (Armin van Buuren album), 2008 * ''Imagine'' (Eva Cassidy album), 2002 * ''Imagine'' (Janice Vidal album), 2012 * ''Imagine'' (John Lennon album), 1971 ** ''Imagine: John Lennon' ...
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Imagine Imagine may refer to: * Imagination Music Albums * ''Imagine'' (Armin van Buuren album), 2008 * ''Imagine'' (Eva Cassidy album), 2002 * ''Imagine'' (Janice Vidal album), 2012 * ''Imagine'' (John Lennon album), 1971 ** ''Imagine: John Lennon' ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Yu Yu Hakusho Final There are numerous video games based on the ''YuYu Hakusho'' manga and anime series created by Yoshihiro Togashi. The Japanese name of the series is romanized as ''Yū Yū Hakusho'' and the anime is officially titled ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' in North ...
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Namcot was a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Na ...
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Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...


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2.5D 2.5D (two-and-a-half dimensional) perspective refers to gameplay or movement in a video game or virtual reality environment that is restricted to a two-dimensional (2D) plane with little to no access to a third dimension in a space that other ...
fighting games are displayed in full 3D graphics, but the gameplay is based on traditional 2D style games. *''All Star Fighters'' - Essential Games *'' Avengers in Galactic Storm'' -
Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
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Battle Fantasia is a fighting video game developed by Arc System Works. Originally released in Japanese arcades in April 2007, the title was ported to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 home consoles in Japan in May 2008, with a North American Xbox 360-exclusive ver ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Battle Stadium D.O.N. is a 2006 Japanese crossover fighting game for the GameCube and PlayStation 2. The "D.O.N." in the game's title is derived from '' Dragon Ball Z'', ''One Piece'', and ''Naruto'', the three manga series published by ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' up ...
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Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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Q Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer. The studio created, produced, and published digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units. It was founded on October 10, 2003 by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, formerly of ...
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Blade Strangers is a 2D crossover fighting game developed by Studio Saizensen and published by Nicalis, released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows via Steam in August 2018, as well as a Japanese arcade release. It features one-on-one ...
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Digimon Rumble Arena ''Digimon Rumble Arena'' is a 2001 fighting video game developed and published by Bandai. It is part of a video game series connected to the '' Digimon'' franchise and showcases the titular creatures within the context of a fighting video gam ...
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Dragon Ball FighterZ ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'' (pronounced "fighters") is a 2.5D fighting game, developed by Arc System Works and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Based on the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, it was released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Micr ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Sirlin Games David Sirlin is an American game designer and fighting game player. He featured in and narrated much of ''Bang the Machine'', a 2002 documentary by Tamara Katepoo about a Street Fighter "exhibition tournament in Japan showing the difference bet ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Fighters Uncaged ''Fighters Uncaged'' is a fighting video game for the Xbox 360 Kinect system. It was developed by AMA Studios and published by Ubisoft in November 2010. ''Fighters Uncaged'' was one of the first twelve games released for the Kinect. The game h ...
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Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
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Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
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Fighting EX Layer ''Fighting EX Layer'' is a Fighting game, fighting video game developed by Arika. It is a spiritual successor to ''Fighting Layer'' and the ''Street Fighter EX'' series and features many of the same characters from the latter. The game was release ...
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Arika is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formed in 1995 by former Capcom employees, originally as ARMtech K.K, later named Arika. The name of the company is the reverse of the name of the company's founder, Akira Nishitani, who ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
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Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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Racdym Racjin, (株式会社ラクジン ''Kabushiki-Gaisha Rakujin'') formerly known as , is a Japanese video game development company located in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, established in 1995. Its name was changed in 2000 to make it more easily pronounced to ...
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Critical Blow ''Critical Blow'' is a 1997 Japanese video game for the Sony PlayStation developed by Racdym and published by Banpresto. It is a three dimensional fighting game, and is a sequel to '' Genei Tougi: Shadow Struggle.'' It features character designs ...
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Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Guilty Gear Xrd is a fighting video game sub-series by Arc System Works and part of the ''Guilty Gear'' series. ''Guilty Gear Xrd'' was developed using Unreal Engine 3, with cel-shaded graphics in place of the series traditional hand drawn sprites. Following t ...
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Guilty Gear Strive is a fighting video game developed and published by Arc System Works. It is the seventh mainline installment of the ''Guilty Gear'' series, and the 25th overall. The game was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Windows in June 2021, a ...
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE; also known as Warner Bros. Games or WB Games) is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of ...
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NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
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Injustice 2 ''Injustice 2'' is a 2017 fighting video game it is the sequel to 2013's '' Injustice: Gods Among Us'' and is the second installment in the ''Injustice'' franchise based upon the DC Universe. It is developed by NetherRealm Studios and publishe ...
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Double Helix Games Double Helix Games was an American video game developer based in Irvine, California, founded in October 2007 through the merger of The Collective and Shiny Entertainment, two studios owned by Foundation 9 Entertainment. Double Helix was acquir ...
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Iron Galaxy Studios Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC is an American video game developer studio founded on August 14, 2008, and based in Chicago, Illinois, with a second studio in Orlando, Florida that was opened in 2012 and a third studio in Austin, Texas. Iron Galaxy do ...
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The King of Fighters ''The King of Fighters'' (''KOF'') is a series of fighting games by SNK that began with the release of '' The King of Fighters '94'' in 1994. The series was developed originally for SNK's Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware. This served as the main p ...
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The King of Fighters XIV ''(KOF XIV)'' is a 2016 Japanese fighting game. Part of SNK's franchise '' The King of Fighters'' (''KOF'') series, with this installment being published by Atlus USA in North America and Deep Silver in Europe. After the 13th installment tha ...
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The King of Fighters XV , also called ''KOF XV'', is a fighting game developed by SNK. It was released on February 17, 2022, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. This is also the first game in ''The King of Fighters'' series created using Unreal ...
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HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a seco ...
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Vanpool Vanpools or Vanpooling is an element of the transit system that allow groups of people to share the ride similar to a carpool, but on a larger scale with concurrent savings in fuel and vehicle operating costs and thus usually a lower cost to the ...
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Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is a crossover fighting game developed by Capcom in collaboration with Eighting. It is an updated version of '' Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds''. The game features characters from both Capcom's video game franchises and comic book se ...
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Microsoft Studios Xbox Game Studios (previously known as Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, and Microsoft Games) is an American video game publisher and part of the Microsoft Gaming division based in Redmond, Washington. It was established in March 2000, ...
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE; also known as Warner Bros. Games or WB Games) is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of ...
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NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
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Mortal Kombat X ''Mortal Kombat X'' is a 2015 fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It is the tenth main installment in the ''Mortal Kom ...
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NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
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Mortal Kombat 11 ''Mortal Kombat 11'' is a 2019 fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the eleventh main installment in the ''Mortal Kombat'' franchise and a sequel to 2015's '' Mortal ...
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NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
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Moshi Fighters Moshi may refer to: Places * Moshi, Tanzania, a city ** Moshi Airport * Moshi Rural, a district * Moshi Urban, a district * Roman Catholic Diocese of Moshi, a diocese located in the city of Moshi * Moshi, Maharashtra, India * Moshi, Shimen ( ...
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Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
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Sumo Digital is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by thr ...
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MultiVersus ''MultiVersus'' is a 2022 free-to-play crossover fighting video game developed by Player First Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game is a platform fighter, featuring characters from Warner Bros. Discovery franc ...
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE; also known as Warner Bros. Games or WB Games) is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale ''PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale'' is a 2012 crossover fighting video game developed by SuperBot Entertainment, in conjunction with Bluepoint Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It features various characters drawn from dif ...
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Animoca Brands Animoca Brands (Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd) is a Hong Kong-based game software company and venture capital company founded in 2014 by Yat Siu. It was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange from 23 January 2015 to 9 March 2020. Nota ...
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Rakugakids is a 2.5D fighting video game created by Konami for the Nintendo 64, released in 1998. The name ''Rakugakids'' is a portmanteau of the Japanese word ''rakugaki'' (meaning "doodle") and the English word "kids", a reflection of the visual style of ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Rise of the Robots ''Rise of the Robots'' is a fighting game released by Time Warner Interactive in 1994 in video gaming, 1994. Originally developed for the Amiga and DOS by Mirage's Instinct Design, it was Port (video gaming), ported to various video game conso ...
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Mirage Media Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd, d/b/a Mirage Media, was a privately owned video game developer and publisher based in Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom. It was directed by Peter Jones, which continues to operate as a separate company. Mir ...
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Mirage Media Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd, d/b/a Mirage Media, was a privately owned video game developer and publisher based in Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom. It was directed by Peter Jones, which continues to operate as a separate company. Mir ...
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Samurai Shodown ''Samurai Shodown'', known in Japan as is a fighting game series by SNK. The series began in 1993 and is known for being one of the earliest in the genre with a primary focus on weapon-based combat. Plot The stories in the series take place ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Polygon Magic is a Japanese video game developer. The company has been one of the largest studios in Japan. The company develops games for various platforms including arcade, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Facebook, Japanese SNS such as GREE and Mo ...
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Street Fighter , commonly abbreviated as ''SF'' or スト (''Suto''), is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fighting video and arcade games developed and published by Capcom. The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by six ...
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Street Fighter IV is a 2008 fighting game published by Capcom, who also co-developed the game with Dimps. It was the first original main entry in the series since ''Street Fighter III'' in 1997, a hiatus of eleven years. The coin-operated arcade game version was ...
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Super Street Fighter IV is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of '' Street Fighter IV'' and has been said to mark the definitive end of the ''Street Fighter IV'' series. Having been deemed too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the g ...
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Ultra Street Fighter IV is a 2008 fighting game published by Capcom, who also co-developed the game with Dimps. It was the first original main entry in the series since '' Street Fighter III'' in 1997, a hiatus of eleven years. The coin-operated arcade game version ...
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Street Fighter V ''Street Fighter V'' is a fighting game developed by Capcom and Dimps and published by Capcom for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows, Windows in 2016. An Arcade game, arcade version exclusive to Japan was released by Taito in 2019. Similar to th ...
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Street Fighter 6 ''Street Fighter 6'' is an upcoming fighting game developed and published by Capcom. It is planned for release for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on June 2, 2023. An arcade version exclusive to Japan is set to be relea ...
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HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a seco ...
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' is a 2008 crossover fighting video game developed by Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The third installment in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, it was announced at a pre-E3 2005 press conferenc ...
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' is a 2018 crossover fighting video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series, succeed ...
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Tamagotchi Battle The is a handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and in the USA on May 1, 1997, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads o ...
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Bandai Namco Games is a Japanese multinational video game publisher headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Entertainment America and Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California an ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
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Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
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Game Arts is a Japan, Japanese video game developer, developer and video game publisher, publisher of video games located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Originally established in 1985 as a computer software company, it expanded into producing for a nu ...
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Ultraman Nexus was produced by Tsuburaya Productions, Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting (CBC), and Dentsu. It was the 18th entry in the Ultra Series. The series aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System, including TBS, CBC, MBS, etc. The show ran from October 2, 2004 until Ju ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
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Punch Planet Punch commonly refers to: * Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist * Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice Punch may also refer to: Places * P ...
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Cyber Connect 2 is a Japanese video game development studio mostly known for its work on the ''.hack'' series, along with a series of fighting games based on the ''Naruto'' franchise. They are also known for creating the ''Little Tail Bronx'' series (e.g. ''T ...
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ARMS Arms or ARMS may refer to: *Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to: People * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader Coat of arms or weapons *Armaments or weapons **Fi ...
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Battle Arena Toshinden is a weapons-based fighting game developed by Tamsoft and published by Takara and Sony Computer Entertainment in 1995 for the PlayStation, followed by 1996 ports for the Sega Saturn, Game Boy and MS-DOS. It was one of the first fighting games ...
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Tamsoft is a Japanese video game developer, founded on 26 June 1992. Its current president, Toshiaki Ōta, previously worked at Toaplan as one of the six original team members and head of software development.Translationby Gamengai. ).Translationby Shmu ...
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Battle Tryst is a 1998 3D fighting arcade game developed and published by Konami. It is Konami's second attempt in the 3D arcade fighting game market after their 1997 3D arcade fighting game ''Fighting Bujutsu''. It is powered by the Konami M2 Hardware, w ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*'' Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.'' - Saffire *'' Bloody Roar / Beastorizer'' series - Hudson Soft, Hudson /
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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*''Celebrity Deathmatch (video game), Celebrity Deathmatch'' - Big Ape *''Criticom'' - Kronos Digital Entertainment, Kronos *Custom Robo series - Noise (Marigul), Noise *''Dark Edge'' - Sega *''Dark Rift'' - Kronos Digital Entertainment, Kronos *''Dead or Alive (franchise), Dead or Alive'' series - Team Ninja **''Dead or Alive (video game), Dead or Alive'' **''Dead or Alive 2'' **''Dead or Alive 3'' **''Dead or Alive Ultimate'' **''Dead or Alive 4'' **''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' **''Dead or Alive 5'' **''Dead or Alive 6'' *''Deadly Arts (video game), Deadly Arts'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Def Jam Vendetta, Def Jam'' series - Aki Corporation, Aki / EA Canada / EA Chicago *''Destrega'' - Koei *''Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (series)'' -
Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
*''Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi'' series - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball: Raging Blast'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball Xenoverse'' - Bandai Namco *''Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2'' - Bandai Namco *''Dual Heroes'' - Hudson Soft *''Ehrgeiz'' - DreamFactory, Dream Factory *''Evil Zone'' - Yuke's *''Fate/tiger colosseum'' - Capcom / Cavia (company), Cavia / Type-Moon *''Fate/unlimited codes'' - Capcom / Cavia (company), Cavia /
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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Sega-AM2 previously known as is a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega. Yu Suzuki, who had previously developed arcade games for Sega including ''Hang-On'' and ''Out Run'', was the first manager of t ...
*''Fighter's Destiny'' series - Imagineer (video game company), Imagineer /
Genki Genki may refer to: *Genki (company), a Japanese video game company *Genki (era), a Japanese era name *Genki (given name) Genki (written: 元気, 元喜, 元基, 元規, 源気 or 源基) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with th ...
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Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. I ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Arika is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formed in 1995 by former Capcom employees, originally as ARMtech K.K, later named Arika. The name of the company is the reverse of the name of the company's founder, Akira Nishitani, who ...
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Sega-AM2 previously known as is a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega. Yu Suzuki, who had previously developed arcade games for Sega including ''Hang-On'' and ''Out Run'', was the first manager of t ...
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Sega-AM2 previously known as is a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega. Yu Suzuki, who had previously developed arcade games for Sega including ''Hang-On'' and ''Out Run'', was the first manager of t ...
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Genki Genki may refer to: *Genki (company), a Japanese video game company *Genki (era), a Japanese era name *Genki (given name) Genki (written: 元気, 元喜, 元基, 元規, 源気 or 源基) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with th ...
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Racdym Racjin, (株式会社ラクジン ''Kabushiki-Gaisha Rakujin'') formerly known as , is a Japanese video game development company located in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, established in 1995. Its name was changed in 2000 to make it more easily pronounced to ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Racdym Racjin, (株式会社ラクジン ''Kabushiki-Gaisha Rakujin'') formerly known as , is a Japanese video game development company located in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, established in 1995. Its name was changed in 2000 to make it more easily pronounced to ...
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Hiryu no Ken ''Hiryū'' ( ja, 飛龍), meaning "Flying Dragon" may refer to: * Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryū'' * Mitsubishi Ki-67 ''Hiryū'', Japanese Army bomber *Strider Hiryu, a ninja-like video game character * Flying Dragon, a video game series known ...
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Culture Brain is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded on October 5, 1980. In 2016, it was renamed Culture Brain Excel. History Culture Brain was founded in 1980 as Nihon Game Corporation. In 1981, a subsidiary to handle the sales operations ...
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Culture Brain is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded on October 5, 1980. In 2016, it was renamed Culture Brain Excel. History Culture Brain was founded in 1980 as Nihon Game Corporation. In 1981, a subsidiary to handle the sales operations ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Killing Zone'' - Naxat Soft *''Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix'' series - Syn Sophia, AKI Corporation /
Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...
*''KOF: Maximum Impact'' series - SNK Playmore *''Kung Fu Chaos'' - Just Add Monsters / Microsoft Game Studios *''Legend of the Dragon (video game), Legend of the Dragon'' - The Game Factory *''Mace: The Dark Age'' - Midway *''Magical Battle Arena'' - Fly-System / AreaZERO *' - Twelve Interactive *''Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth'' -
Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
*''Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects'' - Nihilistic Software, Nihilistic / EA Canada / Team Fusion *'' Mortal Kombat'' series - Midway **''Mortal Kombat 4'' **''Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance'' **''Mortal Kombat: Deception'' **''Mortal Kombat: Armageddon'' **''Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe'' *''Naruto: Clash of Ninja (series)'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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Ganbarion Ganbarion (ガンバリオン ''Ganbarion'') is a Japanese video game company founded on August 13, 1999. Their function is the planning/development of home video game software. Two of Ganbarion's major clients are Bandai Namco Entertainment an ...
*''One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows'' - Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco *''Pokkén Tournament'' - Bandai Namco Entertainment *''Power Stone'' series - Capcom **''Power Stone (video game), Power Stone'' **''Power Stone 2'' *''Poy Poy'' series -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
**''Poy Poy'' **''Poy Poy 2'' *''Psychic Force'' series - Taito Corporation, Taito **''Psychic Force'' **''Psychic Force 2012'' *''Rival Schools'' series - Capcom **''Rival Schools: United By Fate'' **''Project Justice'' *''Robo Pit'' - Kokopeli Digital Studios, Kokopeli *''Rumble Roses'' series - Yuke's /
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Shaolin (video game), Shaolin'' - THQ *''Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi: Gekitō! Ragnarok Hachikengō'' - Capcom *''Sonic Battle'' - Sega/Sonic Team *''Sonic The Fighters'' -
Sega-AM2 previously known as is a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega. Yu Suzuki, who had previously developed arcade games for Sega including ''Hang-On'' and ''Out Run'', was the first manager of t ...
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Namco was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...
/Bandai Namco **''Soul Edge'' **''Soulcalibur (video game), Soulcalibur'' **''Soulcalibur II'' **''Soulcalibur III'' **''Soulcalibur IV'' **''Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny'' **''Soulcalibur V'' **''Soulcalibur: Lost Swords'' **''Soulcalibur VI'' *''Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi'' - LucasArts *''Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels'' - LucasArts *''Stake: Fortune Fighters'' - Gameness Art Software Inc., Gameness *''Street Fighter EX'' series -
Arika is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formed in 1995 by former Capcom employees, originally as ARMtech K.K, later named Arika. The name of the company is the reverse of the name of the company's founder, Akira Nishitani, who ...
/ Capcom **''Street Fighter EX'' **''Street Fighter EX Plus'' **''Street Fighter EX Plus α'' **''Street Fighter EX2'' **''Street Fighter EX2 Plus'' **''Street Fighter EX3'' *''Star Gladiator'' series - Capcom *''Super Dragon Ball Z'' - Namco Bandai Games *''Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus'' - Studio Gigante *''Tech Romancer'' - Capcom *''Tekken'' series -
Namco was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...
**''Tekken (video game), Tekken'' **''Tekken 2'' **''Tekken 3'' **''Tekken Tag Tournament'' **''Tekken 4'' **''Tekken Advance'' **''Tekken 5'' **''Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection'' **''Tekken 6'' **''Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion'' **''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'' **''Tekken 3D: Prime Edition'' **''Tekken Revolution'' **''Tekken 7'' **''Tekken 7: Fated Retribution'' **''Tekken 8'' *''Tenth Degree'' - Atari *''Theatre Of Pain'' -
Mirage Media Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd, d/b/a Mirage Media, was a privately owned video game developer and publisher based in Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom. It was directed by Peter Jones, which continues to operate as a separate company. Mir ...
*''The Fight: Lights Out'' - Sony Computer Entertainment, SCE *''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (video game), The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' - Midway *''Thrill Kill'' - Paradox Development *''Time Warriors (video game), Time Warriors'' - Silmarils *''Tobal'' series - Dream Factory (game developer), Dream Factory *''Tom and Jerry: War of the Whiskers'' - VIS Entertainment *''Tournament of Legends'' -
High Voltage Software High Voltage Software, Inc. (HVS) is an American video game developer based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Founded in April 1993 by Kerry J. Ganofsky, the company is best known for developing ''Lego Racers'' (1999), '' Hunter: The Reckoning'' ...
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Takara Takara Co., Ltd. (株式会社タカラ) was a Japanese toy company founded in 1955. In March 2006, the company merged with Tomy Co., Ltd. to form Takara Tomy. The Takara motto was 遊びは文化」("playing is culture"). Products Toys In 1 ...
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Virtua Fighter is a series of fighting games created by Sega-AM2 and designer Yu Suzuki. The original '' Virtua Fighter'' was released in October 1993 and has received four main sequels and several spin-offs. The highly influential first ''Virtua Fighter'' ga ...
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Sega-AM2 previously known as is a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega. Yu Suzuki, who had previously developed arcade games for Sega including ''Hang-On'' and ''Out Run'', was the first manager of t ...
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Virtua Fighter 2 is a 1994 fighting video game developed by Sega. It is the sequel to 1993's ''Virtua Fighter'' and the second game in the ''Virtua Fighter'' series. It was created by Sega's Yu Suzuki-headed AM2 and was released for the arcades in 1994. Ports ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''List of X-Men computer and video games, X-Men'' fighting games - Paradox Development /
Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
**''X-Men: Mutant Academy'' **''X-Men: Mutant Academy 2'' **''X-Men: Next Dimension'' *''Xena: Warrior Princess: The Talisman of Fate'' - Saffire *''Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament'' - Digital Fiction *''Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles / Konjiki no Gash Bell! Yuujou no Tag Battle 2'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
*''Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury / Konjiki no Gash Bell! Gekitou! Saikyou no Mamonotachi'' - Mechanic Arms *''Zeno Clash'' - ACE Team *''Zero Divide'' series - ZOOM Inc. **''Zero Divide'' **''Zero Divide 2: The Secret Wish'' **''Zero Divide: The Final Conflict''


Weapon-based

Adding melee weapons to a fighting game often makes attack range more of a factor, as opponents may wield swords,knife,katana or other kind of weapons of drastically different sizes.


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*''Barbarian (Palace Software), Barbarian'' -
Palace Software Palace Software was a British video game publisher and Video game developer, developer during the 1980s based in London, England. It was notable for the ''Barbarian'' and ''Cauldron'' series of games for 8-bit home computer platforms, in particu ...
*'' Battle Blaze'' - American Sammy *'' Blade Arcus from Shining'' - Sega *''
Blandia is a weapons-based versus fighting game developed and released into video arcades by Allumer in 1992. It is the sequel to Allumer's ''Gladiator''. Along with Strata's ''Time Killers'', ''Blandia'' is one of the earliest weapon-based fighting ga ...
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Allumer , was a video game production company, established in February 1978 and headquartered in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. The company suspended business in October 5, 1999. In February 2023, Japanese video game publisher Hamster Corporation acquired the righ ...
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BlazBlue ''BlazBlue'' is a fighting video game series developed and published in Japan by Arc System Works, and later localized in North America by Aksys Games and in Europe by Zen United. An anime adaptation aired in Autumn 2013. The series has sold 1. ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
**'' BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle'' *''Chaos Breaker / Dark Awake'' - Eolith (company), Eolith /
Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. I ...
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Dragoon Might is a 2D competitive fighting game produced by Konami and released as a coin-operated video game in August 1995. Gameplay ''Dragoon Might'' features two distinct game modes. A single match mode in which the player must defeat their opponents in ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Dual Blades'' - Vivid Image *Fu'un series -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Savage Reign ''Savage Reign'' is 1995 weapon-based versus fighting game released by SNK for their Neo Geo (console), Neo Geo arcade and home platform. It was ported to the Neo Geo CD, as well as for the PlayStation 2 along with its sequel ''Kizuna Encounter'' ...
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Domark Square Enix Limited (formerly Domark Limited and Eidos Interactive Limited) is a British subsidiary of the Japanese video game company Square Enix, acting as their European publishing arm. The company formerly owned ''Tomb Raider'', which was in ...
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Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
**''Guilty Gear (video game), Guilty Gear: The Missing Link'' **''Guilty Gear X'' **''Guilty Gear X2'' **''Guilty Gear Isuka'' - Sammy Corporation, Sammy **''Guilty Gear Dust Strikers'' *''Keiji (manga), Hana no Keiji: Kumo no Kanata ni'' - Yojigen *''Highlander (video game), Highlander'' - Ocean Software, Ocean *''Knight Games'' -
English Software The English Software Company, later shortened to English Software, was a Manchester, UK-based video game developer and publisher that operated from 1982 until 1987. Starting with its first release, the horizontally scrolling shooter ''Airstrike ...
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Namco was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...
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Samurai Deeper Kyo is a manga series written and illustrated by Akimine Kamijyo. Set during the Edo period of Japan's history, ''Samurai Deeper Kyo'' follows , a feared samurai seeking to regain his body after his soul is sealed inside the body of his rival ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*'' The Killing Blade'' - IGS *''The Last Blade'' series -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
**''The Last Blade'' **''The Last Blade 2'' *''
Martial Champion is a 1993 fighting game released for the arcades by Konami. It was Konami's third fighting game after the 1985 releases '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' and '' Galactic Warriors'' and the 1986 release '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu II'', and their first release that ca ...
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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
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Melty Blood , sometimes shortened as , is a series of 2D visual novel fighting games, co-developed by dōjin circles Type-Moon and French-Bread as the meta-sequel of the Type-Moon's first visual novel ''Tsukihime''. The first game was originall ...
'' - Type-Moon/French Bread (game developer), French Bread **'' Melty Blood: Type Lumina'' - French Bread (game developer), French Bread *''Ninja Master's -Haoh-Ninpo-Cho-'' - Alpha Denshi *''
Persona 4 Arena ''Persona 4 Arena'' is a fighting video game co-developed by Atlus and Arc System Works for arcades, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360; the game is a spin-off from the ''Persona'' series, itself part of the larger ''Megami Tensei'' franchise. The game ...
'' - Atlus/
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax ''Persona 4 Arena Ultimax'' is a fighting video game co-developed by Atlus and Arc System Works. It was released for arcades in 2013, and for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2014 by Atlus in Japan and North America and by Sega in Europe. Versions ...
'' *''Red Earth (video game), Red Earth/War-Zard'' - Capcom *''Revengers of Vengeance'' - Extreme Entertainment Group *''Sai Combat'' -
Mirrorsoft Mirrorsoft was a British video game publisher founded by Jim Mackonochie as a division of Mirror Group Newspapers. The company was active between 1983 and 1991, and shut down completely in early 1992. History In the early 1980s, Jim Mackono ...
*''Samurai Shodown (series), Samurai Shodown/Samurai Spirits'' series -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*''Sarayin Esrari'' - Akemre *Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty, Suiko Embu series **''Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty, Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty / Suiko Enbu/Dark Legend'' -
Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
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Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
*''Shadow Fight'' series **''Shadow Fight'' - Nekki **''Shadow Fight 2'' - Banzai.Games *''Sword Slayer / Spartacus the Swordslayer'' - Players *'' Time Killers'' - Strata *Touhou Project series **''Immaterial and Missing Power, Touhou Project 7.5 - Immaterial and Missing Power'' **''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Touhou Project 10.5 - Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' **''Touhou Hisōtensoku, Touhou Project 12.3 - Touhou Hisōtensoku'' **''Hopeless Masquerade, Touhou Project 13.5 - Hopeless Masquerade'' **''Urban Legend in Limbo, Touhou Project 14.5 - Urban Legend in Limbo'' **''Antinomy of Common Flowers, Touhou Project 15.5 - Antinomy of Common Flowers'' *''
Under Night In-Birth is a 2D fighting game co-developed by Ecole Software and French-Bread. It received many updates for adjustments and characters. Gameplay The game has similar mechanics to ''Melty Blood'', ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue''. It uses three attac ...
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Battle Fantasia is a fighting video game developed by Arc System Works. Originally released in Japanese arcades in April 2007, the title was ported to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 home consoles in Japan in May 2008, with a North American Xbox 360-exclusive ver ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''Granblue Fantasy Versus'' -
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Guilty Gear Xrd is a fighting video game sub-series by Arc System Works and part of the ''Guilty Gear'' series. ''Guilty Gear Xrd'' was developed using Unreal Engine 3, with cel-shaded graphics in place of the series traditional hand drawn sprites. Following t ...
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NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
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Mortal Kombat X ''Mortal Kombat X'' is a 2015 fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It is the tenth main installment in the ''Mortal Kom ...
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NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
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Mortal Kombat 11 ''Mortal Kombat 11'' is a 2019 fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the eleventh main installment in the ''Mortal Kombat'' franchise and a sequel to 2015's '' Mortal ...
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NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
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Samurai Shodown ''Samurai Shodown'', known in Japan as is a fighting game series by SNK. The series began in 1993 and is known for being one of the earliest in the genre with a primary focus on weapon-based combat. Plot The stories in the series take place ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*''Shadow Fight'' series **''Shadow Fight 3'' - Banzai.Games **''Shadow Fight Arena'' - Banzai.Games


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Battle Arena Toshinden is a weapons-based fighting game developed by Tamsoft and published by Takara and Sony Computer Entertainment in 1995 for the PlayStation, followed by 1996 ports for the Sega Saturn, Game Boy and MS-DOS. It was one of the first fighting games ...
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Tamsoft is a Japanese video game developer, founded on 26 June 1992. Its current president, Toshiaki Ōta, previously worked at Toaplan as one of the six original team members and head of software development.Translationby Gamengai. ).Translationby Shmu ...
*''List of Bleach video games, Bleach (video game series)'' *''Bushido Blade'' series - Square-Enix / Lightweight **''Bushido Blade (video game), Bushido Blade'' **''Bushido Blade 2'' *''Cardinal Syn'' - Kronos Digital Entertainment, Kronos *''Criticom'' - Kronos Digital Entertainment / Vic Tokai *''Dark Rift'' - Kronos Digital Entertainment / Vic Tokai *''Deadliest Warrior: The Game'' - Pipeworks Software *''Dynasty Warriors (video game), Dynasty Warriors'' - Koei *''Hellish Quart'' - Kubold *''Kengo: Master of Bushido, Kengo'' -
Genki Genki may refer to: *Genki (company), a Japanese video game company *Genki (era), a Japanese era name *Genki (given name) Genki (written: 元気, 元喜, 元基, 元規, 源気 or 源基) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with th ...
*''Last Bronx'' - Sega AM3 *''Mace: The Dark Age'' - Midway *'' Mortal Kombat'' series **''Mortal Kombat 4'' - Midway **''Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance'' - Midway **''Mortal Kombat: Deception'' - Midway **''Mortal Kombat: Armageddon'' - Midway *''Samurai Shodown'' series **''Samurai Shodown 64'' -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
**''Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage''
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
**''Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage'' -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
**''Samurai Shodown: Sen'' - SNK Playmore *''Sarayin Esrari'' - Akemre *''Soul (series), Soul'' series -
Namco was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...
*''Star Gladiator'' series **''Star Gladiator'' - Capcom **''Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein'' - Capcom *''Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi'' - LucasArts *''Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels'' - LucasArts


Tag team-based

Fighting games that feature Tag-team, tag teams as the ''core'' gameplay element. Teams of players may each control a different character, or a single player may control multiple characters but play one at a time. Other fighters feature tag-teaming as an alternate game mode.


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*'' Blade Arcus from Shining'' - Sega *'' BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle'' -
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''The Eye of Typhoon, The Eye of Typhoon / Kyoku Cho Gou Ken'' - Viccom *'' Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle'' -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Marvel vs. Capcom is a series of crossover fighting games developed and published by Capcom, featuring characters from their own video game franchises and comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series originated as coin-operated arcade games, though ...
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07th Expansion 07th Expansion is a Japanese dōjin circle specialized in the creation of visual novels and sound. They started out drawing for the trading card game ''Leaf Fight'', but are known for creating the game series '' When They Cry''. The remake games ...
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The King of Fighters ''The King of Fighters'' (''KOF'') is a series of fighting games by SNK that began with the release of '' The King of Fighters '94'' in 1994. The series was developed originally for SNK's Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware. This served as the main p ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
/SNK Playmore **''
The King of Fighters 2003 ''(KOF 2003, or KOF '03)'', also known by fans as is a fighting game produced by SNK Playmore for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms in 2003. It is the tenth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series and the last one released for the Neo Geo, ...
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The King of Fighters XI ''(KOF XI)'' is a 2D fighting game produced by SNK Playmore. It is the eleventh installment in ''The King of Fighters'' series following '' The King of Fighters 2003''. It was originally released as a coin-operated arcade game for the Atomiswa ...
'' *''Power Instinct'' series - Atlus **''Gogetsuji Legends / Power Instinct Legends'' **'' Groove on Fight'' *'' Rage of the Dragons'' - Evoga /
Noise Factory was a Japanese video game developer and publisher based out of Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in J ...
*'' Skullgirls'' - Reverge Labs/Lab Zero Games/Hidden Variable Studios/Future Club *''SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium'' *'' The Killing Blade'' - International Games System *''Twinkle Queen'' -
Milestone A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and other places or landmarks; or they can give their position on the route relative to so ...
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Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...


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*''Capcom Versus series'' **'' Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars'' - Capcom/
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
**''Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds'' / ''
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is a crossover fighting game developed by Capcom in collaboration with Eighting. It is an updated version of '' Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds''. The game features characters from both Capcom's video game franchises and comic book se ...
'' - Capcom/Eighting **'' Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite'' - Capcom *''
Dragon Ball FighterZ ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'' (pronounced "fighters") is a 2.5D fighting game, developed by Arc System Works and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Based on the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, it was released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Micr ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''Mortal Kombat (2011 game), Mortal Kombat'' -
NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
*'' Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid'' -
Animoca Brands Animoca Brands (Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd) is a Hong Kong-based game software company and venture capital company founded in 2014 by Yat Siu. It was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange from 23 January 2015 to 9 March 2020. Nota ...
*''SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy'' -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
/ Abstraction Games *'' Street Fighter X Tekken'' - Capcom


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*''Dead or Alive (franchise), Dead or Alive series'' -
Tecmo , was a Japanese video game corporation founded in 1967. It had its headquarters in Kudankita, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its subsidiary, Tecmo Inc, was located in Torrance, California. Tecmo was formerly known as Tehkan. Tecmo is known for the ''Captain ...
**''Dead or Alive 2'' **''Dead or Alive 3'' **''Dead or Alive Ultimate'' **''Dead or Alive 4'' **''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' **''Dead or Alive 5'' **''Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate'' **''Dead or Alive 5 Last Round'' *''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R'' - Bandai Namco/CyberConnect2 *''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven'' - Bandai Namco/CyberConnect2 *''Jump Force'' - Spike Chunsoft *''Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth'' -
Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
*''Naruto: Clash of Ninja (series)#Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3, Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
/ Takara Tomy *''Naruto: Clash of Ninja (series)#Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4, Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
/ Takara Tomy *''Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
/ D3 Publisher / Takara Tomy *''Clash of Ninja Revolution 3, Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
/ D3 Publisher / Takara Tomy *''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! Special'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
/ Takara Tomy *''One Piece: Burning Blood'' *''One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows'' - Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco *''Street Fighter EX3'' -
Arika is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formed in 1995 by former Capcom employees, originally as ARMtech K.K, later named Arika. The name of the company is the reverse of the name of the company's founder, Akira Nishitani, who ...
/ Capcom *''Tekken Tag Tournament'' series -
Namco was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...
**''Tekken Tag Tournament'' **''Tekken Tag Tournament 2''


Platform fighters

While traditional 2D/3D fighting game mechanics are more or less descendants of ''Street Fighter II'', platform fighters tend to blend fighting with elements taken from platform games. A typical match is arranged as a battle royal. Compared to traditional fighting games, attack inputs are simpler and emphasis is put on dynamic maneuvering in the arena, using the level design to get an advantage. Another major gameplay element involves using items, which may randomly Spawning (gaming), spawn anywhere in the arena. Other terms which were used to refer to this sub-genre included "Smash Clones", "Party Brawler", "Party Fighter", and "Arena Fighter" (that is also being used to define another style of 3D fighting game).


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*''Armor Mayhem'' - Louissi *''Blue Mischief'' - Team WING *''Brawlhalla'' - Blue Mammoth Games *''Guilty Gear Dust Strikers'' -
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''Jump Stars'' series -
Ganbarion Ganbarion (ガンバリオン ''Ganbarion'') is a Japanese video game company founded on August 13, 1999. Their function is the planning/development of home video game software. Two of Ganbarion's major clients are Bandai Namco Entertainment an ...
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Jump Super Stars ''Jump Super Stars'' is a 2D crossover fighting game for the Nintendo DS, based on ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' characters. It was developed by Ganbarion and published by Nintendo. The game was released on August 8, 2005, in Japan and accompanied th ...
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Jump Ultimate Stars Jumping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jump or Jumping also may refer to: Places * Jump, Kentucky or Jump S ...
'' *''Kanon and AIR Smash'' - micro dream studio++ *''Lethal League'' - Team Reptile *''Paperbound'' - Dissident Logic *''Rivals of Aether'' - Dan Fornace *''Roof Rage'' - Early Melon *''Shovel Knight#Downloadable content, Shovel Knight Showdown'' - Yacht Club Games *''Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown'' - Prolific *''Sugoi Hebereke'' -
Sunsoft , stylized as SUNSOFT, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Sunsoft is the video games division of Japanese electronics manufacturer Sun Corporation. Its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sun Corporation of America, though, a ...
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Namco was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...
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Them's Fightin' Herds ''Them's Fightin' Herds'' is an indie fighting game developed by Mane6 and published by Maximum Games. It features a cast of all-female ungulate characters fighting each other to find a champion worthy of gaining a magical key that will protect ...
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*''Antistatic'' - Blue Hexagons *''Armajet'' - Super Bit Machine *''Brawlout'' - Angry Mob Games *'' Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion'' - Papaya Studio *''DreamMix TV World Fighters'' - Bitstep *''Icons: Combat Arena'' - Wavedash Games *'' Kirby Fighters 2'' - Nintendo /
HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a seco ...
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Vanpool Vanpools or Vanpooling is an element of the transit system that allow groups of people to share the ride similar to a carpool, but on a larger scale with concurrent savings in fuel and vehicle operating costs and thus usually a lower cost to the ...
*'' Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Go! Go! Mamono Fight!!'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
*''Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends'' - Vicious Cycle Software *''Lethal League Blaze'' - Team Reptile *''
MultiVersus ''MultiVersus'' is a 2022 free-to-play crossover fighting video game developed by Player First Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game is a platform fighter, featuring characters from Warner Bros. Discovery franc ...
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE; also known as Warner Bros. Games or WB Games) is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of ...
/ Player First Games *''Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra'' - Headlock *''Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl'' - Ludosity / Fair Play Labs *'' One Piece: Gear Spirit'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Onimusha Blade Warriors'' - Capcom *''
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale ''PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale'' is a 2012 crossover fighting video game developed by SuperBot Entertainment, in conjunction with Bluepoint Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It features various characters drawn from dif ...
'' - SuperBot Entertainment *''Rumble Arena'' - Rekall Games *''Rushdown Revolt'' - Vortex Games *''Slap City'' - Ludosity *'' Super Smash Bros.'' series - Nintendo /
HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a seco ...
/ Sora / Bandai Namco Studios **'' Super Smash Bros.'' **'' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' **''
Super Smash Bros. Brawl ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' is a 2008 crossover fighting video game developed by Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The third installment in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, it was announced at a pre-E3 2005 press conferenc ...
'' **''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U'' **''
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' is a 2018 crossover fighting video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series, succeed ...
'' *''Tales of VS.'' - Matrix Software *''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up'' -
Game Arts is a Japan, Japanese video game developer, developer and video game publisher, publisher of video games located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Originally established in 1985 as a computer software company, it expanded into producing for a nu ...
*'' Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble'' - Capcom


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'' - Nintendo *''Barbarian (Titus), Barbarian'' - Saffire *''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (video game)'' - Midway Games *''Groove Adventure Rave: Fighting Live'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven'' - Bandai Namco/CyberConnect2 *''Keriotosse!'' - Taya *''Kung Fu Chaos'' - Just Add Monsters / Microsoft Game Studios *''Pocket Kanon & Air'' - Studio SiestA *''Power Stone'' series - Capcom **''Power Stone (video game), Power Stone'' **''Power Stone 2'' *''Poy Poy'' series -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
**''Poy Poy'' **''Poy Poy 2'' *''Rakugaki Showtime'' - Treasure (company), Treasure *''Shrek SuperSlam'' -
Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
*''Sonic Battle'' - Sega/Sonic Team *''Stake: Fortune Fighters'' - Gameness Art Software Inc. *''Suzumiya Haruhi no Chourantou'' - Souvenir Circ. *''Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekitou'' - Souvenir Circ. *''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Tom and Jerry: War of the Whiskers'' - VIS Entertainment


Arena fighting games

Arena Fighters usually focuses on more free-controlling 3D movement and camera that follows the character, unlike other traditional 3D fighting games like the ''Tekken'' series that still maintain the side view and side-scrolling orientation to the attacks, also usually put emphasis on offense over defense. Games are often based on popular anime series or other IPs.


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Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles'' - CyberConnect2 *''Dissidia: Final Fantasy'' *''Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy'' *''Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi (series)'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball: Raging Blast'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball Xenoverse'' - Bandai Namco *''Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2'' - Bandai Namco *''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (video game)'' - Midway Games *''Groove Adventure Rave: Fighting Live'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Godzilla video games'' - Toho / Atari *''Kill la Kill the Game: IF'' - A+ Games/
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''King of the Monsters (video game), King of the Monsters'' series -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*''Kung Fu Chaos'' - Just Add Monsters/Microsoft Game Studios *''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven'' - Bandai Namco/CyberConnect2 *''J-Stars Victory VS'' - Spike Chunsoft *''Jump Force'' - Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco *''Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth'' -
Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
*''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm'' *''Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2'' *''Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations'' *''Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3'' *''Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution'' *''One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows'' - Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco *''Override 2: Super Mech League'' *''Power Stone'' series - Capcom **''Power Stone (video game), Power Stone'' **''Power Stone 2'' *''Pokkén Tournament'' - Bandai Namco Entertainment *''Saint Seiya: Brave Soldiers'' -
Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
*''Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul'' -
Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
*''Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi: Gekitō! Ragnarok Hachikengō'' - Capcom *''Shrek SuperSlam'' -
Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
*''Sonic Battle'' - Sega/Sonic Team *''Spawn: In the Demon's Hand'' *''Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Lightsaber Duels'' - Lucasfilm Games *''Super Dragon Ball Z'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Virtual On'' series - Sega AM3 **''Virtual On: Cyber Troopers'' **''Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram'' *''War of the Monsters'' - Incognito Entertainment / Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony *''Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament'' - Digital Fiction *''Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles / Konjiki no Gash Bell! Yuujou no Tag Battle 2'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
*''Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury / Konjiki no Gash Bell! Gekitou! Saikyou no Mamonotachi'' - Mechanic Arms


4-way simultaneous fighting

Games in which four players face off at once. Other games may feature 4-way fighting as alternate game modes, but here it's more central to the way the game is usually played.


2D

*''Bleach'' Nintendo DS games **''Bleach: The Blade of Fate'' **''Bleach: Dark Souls'' *''
Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
**''Guilty Gear Isuka'' - Sammy Corporation, Sammy **''Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers'' *''Jump Stars'' series -
Ganbarion Ganbarion (ガンバリオン ''Ganbarion'') is a Japanese video game company founded on August 13, 1999. Their function is the planning/development of home video game software. Two of Ganbarion's major clients are Bandai Namco Entertainment an ...
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Jump Super Stars ''Jump Super Stars'' is a 2D crossover fighting game for the Nintendo DS, based on ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' characters. It was developed by Ganbarion and published by Nintendo. The game was released on August 8, 2005, in Japan and accompanied th ...
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Jump Ultimate Stars Jumping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jump or Jumping also may refer to: Places * Jump, Kentucky or Jump S ...
'' *''Lethal League'' - Team Reptile *''Naruto Shippūden: Ninjutsu Zenkai! Cha-Crash!!'' * ''Yū Yū Hakusho Makyō Tōitsusen''


2.5D

*''Battle Stadium D.O.N'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
*'' Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion'' - Crave Entertainment, Crave *''DreamMix TV World Fighters'' - Hudson Soft *'' Kirby Fighters 2'' - Nintendo /
HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a seco ...
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Vanpool Vanpools or Vanpooling is an element of the transit system that allow groups of people to share the ride similar to a carpool, but on a larger scale with concurrent savings in fuel and vehicle operating costs and thus usually a lower cost to the ...
*'' Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Go! Go! Mamono Fight!!'' - 8ing *''Lethal League Blaze'' - Team Reptile *''
MultiVersus ''MultiVersus'' is a 2022 free-to-play crossover fighting video game developed by Player First Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game is a platform fighter, featuring characters from Warner Bros. Discovery franc ...
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE; also known as Warner Bros. Games or WB Games) is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of ...
/ Player First Games *''Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra'' - Headlock *''Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl'' - Ludosity / Fair Play Labs *'' One Piece: Gear Spirit'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale ''PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale'' is a 2012 crossover fighting video game developed by SuperBot Entertainment, in conjunction with Bluepoint Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It features various characters drawn from dif ...
'' - Sony Computer Entertainment *''Sonic Battle'' - Sega / Sonic Team *'' Street Fighter X Tekken'' - Capcom *'' Super Smash Bros.'' series - Nintendo /
HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a seco ...
/ Sora / Bandai Namco Studios **'' Super Smash Bros.'' **'' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' **''
Super Smash Bros. Brawl ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' is a 2008 crossover fighting video game developed by Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The third installment in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, it was announced at a pre-E3 2005 press conferenc ...
'' **''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U'' **''
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' is a 2018 crossover fighting video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series, succeed ...
'' *'' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up'' -
Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
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Game Arts is a Japan, Japanese video game developer, developer and video game publisher, publisher of video games located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Originally established in 1985 as a computer software company, it expanded into producing for a nu ...
*'' Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble'' - Capcom


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'' - Nintendo *''Destrega'' - Koei *''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (video game), The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' - Midway Games *''Groove Adventure Rave: Fighting Live'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven'' - Bandai Namco/CyberConnect2 *''Naruto: Clash of Ninja (series)'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
/ Tomy, Takara Tomy **''Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2'' **''Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution'' **''Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2'' **''Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 3'' **''Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4'' **''Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3'' **''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! EX'' **''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! EX 2'' **''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! EX 3'' **''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! Special'' *''Power Stone 2'' - Capcom *''Shrek SuperSlam'' -
Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
*''Sonic Battle'' - Sonic Team/ Sega *''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Thrill Kill'' -
Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive Entertainment (later renamed Avalon Interactive) was the video game publishing division of British conglomerate the Virgin Group. It developed and published games for major platforms and employed developers, including Westwo ...
*''Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style'' -
Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...


Sports (combat) subgenres

Sports-based combat (also known as sport-fighters or combat sports games) are games that fall firmly within both the Combat and Sports game genres. Such games are usually based on boxing, mixed martial arts, and wrestling, and each sport seen as their own separate subgenres. Often the combat is far more realistic than combat in fighting games (though the amount of realism can vary greatly), and many feature real-world athletes and franchises and they also very distinct from fighting games.


Boxing

Boxing games go back farther than any other kind of fighting game, starting with Sega's ''Heavyweight Champ'' in 1976, the game often called the first video game to feature hand-to-hand fighting. Fighters wear boxing gloves and fight in boxing ring, rings, and fighters can range from actual Fight Night Round 3, professional boxers to Power Punch II, aliens to Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2, Michael Jackson. *''10... Knock Out!'' - Amersoft *''3D Boxing'' - Amsoft *''3D World Boxing Champion'' - Simulmondo *''4-D Boxing'' - Distinctive Software *''4D Sports Boxing'' - Mindscape *''ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing'' - Cinemaware *''Animal Boxing'' - Destineer *''
ARMS Arms or ARMS may refer to: *Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to: People * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader Coat of arms or weapons *Armaments or weapons **Fi ...
'' - Nintendo *''Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing, Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing / Star Rank Boxing'' - Gamestar /
Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
*''Best Bout Boxing'' - Jaleco *''Boxing (1980 video game), Boxing'' -
Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
*''Boxing (1981 video game), Boxing'' - Mattel Electronics *''Boxing Angel'' *''Boxing Fever'' *''Boxing Legends of the Ring'' - Sculptured Software *''Black & Bruised'' - Majesco Entertainment *''By Fair Means or Foul, By Fair Means or Foul / Pro Boxing Simulator'' -
Superior Software Superior Software Ltd (also known as Superior Interactive) is a video game publisher. It was one of the main publishers for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in the 1980s and early 1990s. It currently releases games for Microsoft Windo ...
/ Alligata / Codemasters *''Canimals Boxing Championship'' - Voozclub Co. Ltd / Playplus *''Def Jam: Icon'' - EA Chicago/
Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the ...
*''Devastating Blow'' - Beyond Belief Software, Beyond Belief *''Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing, Evander "Real Deal" Holyfield's Boxing'' - Sega *''FaceBreaker'' - EA Canada *''Final Blow'' -
Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. I ...
/ The Sales Curve, STORM (The Sales Curve) *''Fight Night (1985 video game), Fight Night (1985)'' - Accolade / U.S. Gold *''Fight Night (video game series), Fight Night'' series **''Fight Night 2004'' - EA Sports **''Fight Night Round 2'' - EA Sports **''Fight Night: Round 3'' - EA Chicago **''Fight Night Round 4'' - EA Canada **''Fight Night Champion'' - EA Canada *''Foes of Ali'' - Gray Matter Studios *''Frank Bruno's Boxing'' - Elite Systems, Elite *''George Foreman's KO Boxing'' -
Beam Software Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Melbourne House, was an Australian video game development studio founded in 1980 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen and based in Melbourne, Australia. Initially formed to produce books and software to be pub ...
*''Greatest Heavyweights of the Ring'' - Sega *''Hajime no Ippo: Road to Glory'' *''Heavyweight Champ'' series **''Heavyweight Champ'' (1976) **''Heavyweight Champ'' (1987) *''Knockout'' - Alligata *''Knockout Kings'' series - EA Sports **''Knockout Kings 99'' **''Knockout Kings'' **''Knockout Kings 2000'' **''Knockout Kings 2001'' **''Knockout Kings 2002'' **''Knockout Kings 2003'' *''Legend of Success Joe'' - Wave Corp. /
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*''Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing'' - Park Place *''Neutral Corner, Neutral Corner / USA Boxing'' - KAB Software *''Online Boxing'' series **''Online Boxing 2D(2001)'' - onlineboxing.net **''Online Boxing 3D(2009)'' - 3dboxing.com *''Poli Diaz'' - OperaSoft *''Power Punch II'' - ASC Games, ASC *''Pro Boxing (video game), Pro Boxing'' - Artworx *''Punch-Out!!'' series - Nintendo **''Punch-Out!!'' **''Super Punch-Out!! (arcade game), Super Punch-Out!!'' **''Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!'' **''Super Punch-Out!! (SNES version), Super Punch-Out!!'' (SNES) **''Punch-Out!! (Wii)'' *''Don King Presents: Prizefighter, Prize Fighter'' *''Ready 2 Rumble'' series **''Ready 2 Rumble Boxing'' - Midway **''Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2'' - Midway / Point of View (developer) **''Ready 2 Rumble Revolution'' - AKI Corporation / Atari *''Real Steel (video game), Real Steel'' - Yuke's *''Riddick Bowe Boxing'' - Malibu Interactive *''Ring King'' -
Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
*''Ringside (video game), Ringside'' - EAS Software, EAS / Mentrox / Goldline (video game company), Goldline *''Rocky'' series **''Creed: Rise to Glory'' - Survios **''Rocky Super Action Boxing'' - Coleco **''Rocky (1987 video game), Rocky'' - Sega **''Rocky (2002 video game), Rocky (6th gen consoles)'' -
Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
**''Rocky Legends'' -
Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
**''Rocky Balboa (video game), Rocky Balboa'' -
Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
**''Rocky / Rocco'' - Dinamic / Gremlin *''Sierra Championship Boxing'' - Sierra On-Line *''Star Rank Boxing II'' - Gamestar /
Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...
*''Street Cred Boxing'' - Players *''TKO (video game), TKO'' - Accolade *''Teleroboxer'' - Nintendo R&D3 *''The Big KO'' - Tynesoft *''The Champ (video game), The Champ'' - Linel *''The Final Round (1988)'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Title Fight'' - Sega *''Fighting Spirit (manga), Victorious Boxers'' series **''Victorious Boxers: Ippo's Road to Glory'' - New Corporation **''Victorious Boxers 2: Fighting Spirit'' - New Corporation **''Victorious Boxers: Revolution'' - AQ Interactive / GrandPrix *''Wade Hixton's Counter Punch'' - Inferno Games *''Wii Sports#Main games, Wii Sports: Wii Boxing'' - Nintendo


Boxing management

Boxing games where combat is not directly human-controlled in the ring. Instead, a boxer is trained via a resource management game scheme, and bouts are directed via instructions given prior to each round. *''Boxing Manager'' - Cult
Online Boxing Manager
- OBM *''Ringside Seat'' - Strategic Simulations, Inc., SSI *''TKO Professional Boxing'' - Lance Haffner Games *''The Boxer (game)'' - Cult *''World Championship Boxing Manager'' - Goliath Games / Krisalis Software *''World Championship Boxing Manager Online'' - WCBM Online


Mixed martial arts

While most versus fighting games could be considered mixed martial arts games, listed here are games that are based on actual MMA franchises or tournaments. *''Astral Bout, Astral Bout / Sougou Kakutougi Astral Bout'' - King Records (Japan), King Records *''Astral Bout 2, Astral Bout 2 / Sougou Kakutougi Astral Bout 2 The Total Fighters'' - King Records (Japan), King Records *''Astral Bout 3, Astral Bout 3 / Fighting Network Rings: Astral Bout 3 / Sougou Kakutougi Astral Bout 3'' - King Records (Japan), King Records *''Buriki One'' -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*''Def Jam: Fight for NY'' - Aki Corporation, Aki / EA Canada *''EA Sports MMA'' - EA Sports *''EA Sports UFC'' - EA Sports *''EA Sports UFC 2'' - EA Sports *''EA Sports UFC 3'' - EA Sports *''EA Sports UFC 4'' - EA Sports *Fighting Network RINGS: PS one 1997 *Grappler Baki Baki Sadai no Tournament / Fighting Fury PS2 2000 *Garouden Breakblow PS2 2005 *Garouden Breakblow Fist or Twist PS2 2007 *K-1 PREMIUM 2004 Dynamite PS2 2004 *K-1 PREMIUM 2005 Dynamite PS2 2005
MMA Tycoon
- Browser 2009 *PRIDE FC: Fighting Championships PS2 2003 *PrideGP Grand Prix 2003 *''TDT-Online'' - Tactical Defense Training, TDT
TheFlyingKnee
- Browser/Animated 2011 *The Ishu Kakutougi/World Fighting PS2 2003 *The Wild Rings Xbox 2003 *''Ultimate Fighting Championship (video game), Ultimate Fighting Championship'' - Anchor Inc. *''Ultimate Fighting Championship: Sudden Impact, UFC: Sudden Impact'' - Opus (video game company), Opus *''UFC: Tapout'' - Dream Factory (game developer), Dream Factory *''UFC: Throwdown'' - Opus *''UFC 2009 Undisputed'' - Yuke's *''UFC Undisputed 2010'' - Yuke's *''UFC Undisputed 3'' - Yuke's *''UFC Personal Trainer (video game)'' - Yuke's *''Saikyō: Takada Nobuhiko'' Super Famicom 1995 *''Supremacy MMA'' - Kung Fu Factory


Kickboxing

*K-1 World GP *K-1 World GP 2006 *K-1 Premium 2005 Dynamite!! *K-1 World GP 2005 *K-1 World Max 2005 *K-1 Premium 2004 Dynamite!! *K-1 World Grand Prix 2003 *K-1 World Grand Prix: The Beast Attack! *K-1 World Grand Prix *K-1 Pocket Grand Prix 2 *K-1 Pocket Grand Prix *K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 *K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 Kaimakuden *K-1 Oujya ni Narou! *K-1 Grand Prix *K-1 Revenge *Legend of K-1 Grand Prix '96 *K-1 The Arena Fighters *Fighting Illusion K-1 Grand Prix Sho *Legend of K-1 The Best Collection


Wrestling

Wrestling games are either based on or have elements of wrestling, such as professional wrestling, grappling, and/or the wrestling ring itself. *''Super Pro Wrestling'' - INTV Corporation *''3 Count Bout, 3 Count Bout / Fire Suplex'' -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*''All Japan Pro-Wrestling: Soul of Champion'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
*''All Star Pro-Wrestling'' series - Square (video game company), Square / Square Enix *''American Tag-Team Wrestling, American Tag Team Wrestling / Tag Team Wrestling'' -
Zeppelin A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin () who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874Eckener 1938, pp ...
*''Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home, Backyard Wrestling'' series - Paradox Development **''Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home'' **''Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood'' **''Backyard Wrestling 2K8'' *''Tag Team Wrestling, The Big Pro Wrestling! / Tag Team Wrestling'' - Technos Japan Corporation, Technos / Quicksilver Software *''Blazing Tornado'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
*''Pro Wrestling (Master System video game), Body Slam / Dump Matsumoto'' - Sega / Firebird Software, Firebird ** Pro Wrestling (Master System video game), ''Pro Wrestling'' (Sega Master System) - Sega *''Championship Wrestling (video game)'' - Epyx *''Def Jam Vendetta'' - Aki Corporation, Aki / EA Canada *''Fire Pro Wrestling'' series **''Fire Pro Wrestling Combination Tag'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Fire Pro Wrestling 2nd Bout'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Super Fire Pro Wrestling'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Thunder Pro Wrestling Biographies, Thunder Pro Wrestling Biographies / Fire Pro Wrestling Gaiden'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Fire Pro Wrestling 3 Legend Bout'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Super Fire Pro Wrestling 2'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Super Fire Pro Wrestling 3 Final Bout'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Super Fire Pro Wrestling 3 Easy Type'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Fire Pro Women: All Star Dream Slam, Fire Pro Women: All Star Dream Slam / Fire Pro Joshi: All Star Dream Slam'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Wrestling Universe: Fire Pro Women: Dome Super Female Big Battle: All Japan Women VS J.W.P.'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Super Fire Pro Wrestling: Queen's Special'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Fire Pro Another Story: Blazing Tornado'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Super Fire Pro Wrestling X'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Fire Pro Wrestling: Iron Slam '96'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Fire Pro Wrestling S: 6 Men Scramble'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Fire Pro Wrestling G'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
**''Fire Pro Wrestling for WonderSwan'' - Spike (company), Spike **''Fire Pro Wrestling i'' - Spike (company), Spike **''Fire Pro Wrestling D'' - Spike (company), Spike **''Fire Pro Wrestling (GBA), Fire Pro Wrestling'' - Spike (company), Spike **''Fire Pro Wrestling J'' - Spike (company), Spike **''Fire Pro Wrestling 2'' - Spike (company), Spike **''Fire Pro Wrestling Z'' - Spike (company), Spike **''Fire Pro Wrestling Returns'' - Spike (company), Spike **''Fire Pro Wrestling World'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Gekitou Burning Pro Wrestling'' - Blue Planet Software, BPS *''HAL Wrestling, HAL Wrestling / Pro Wrestling'' -
Human Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 1983. The company produced games for a number of platforms, including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers. Human declared bankruptcy in 2000 and disbanded. Its for ...
*''HammerLock Wrestling'' - Jaleco *''Funaki Masakatsu no Hybrid Wrestler: Tōgi Denshō'' - Technos *''Intergalactic Cage Match, Intergalactic Cage Match / Cage Match'' -
Mastertronic Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was one of the largest software publishers in the UK, achieved by ...
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Entertainment USA ''Entertainment USA'' was a British television series broadcast by the BBC. It was first shown on BBC2 in 1983, ran for eight years and was devised and presented by Jonathan King. The show presented entertainment news, clips, interviews and ...
*''King of Colosseum (Green) NOAH x Zero-One Disc'' - Spike (company), Spike *''King of Colosseum II'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Galactic Wrestling: Featuring Ultimate Muscle, Galactic Wrestling / Kinnikuman Generations'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Legends of Wrestling'' series *''M.U.S.C.L.E. (video game), MUSCLE / Tag Team Match M.U.S.C.L.E. / Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Match'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Mat Mania Challenge'' - Technos / Atari *''Natsume Championship Wrestling'' - Natsume (company), Natsume *''New Japan x All Japan x Pancrase Disc'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Popeye 3: WrestleCrazy, Popeye 3'' - Alternative Software, Alternative *''Power Move Pro Wrestling'' - Future Amusement *''Power Pro Wrestling: Max Voltage, Power Pro Wrestling: Max Voltage / Jikkyou Power Pro Wrestling '96: Max Voltage'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Pro Wrestling (NES video game), Pro Wrestling (NES)'' - Nintendo *''Pure Wrestle Queens, Pure Wrestle Queens / JWP Joshi Pro Wrestling: Pure Wrestle Queens'' - Jaleco *''Cutie Suzuki no Ringside Angel'' - Asmik Ace, Asmik *''Rock'n Wrestle, Rock'n Wrestle / Bop'n Wrestle'' -
Beam Software Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Melbourne House, was an Australian video game development studio founded in 1980 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen and based in Melbourne, Australia. Initially formed to produce books and software to be pub ...
*''Rumble Roses'' series -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
/ Yuke's *''Saturday Night Slam Masters'' series **''Saturday Night Slam Masters, Saturday Night Slam Masters / Muscle Bomber: The Body Explosion'' - Capcom **''Muscle Bomber Duo: Ultimate Team Battle, Muscle Bomber Duo: Ultimate Team Battle / Muscle Bomber Duo: Heat Up Warriors'' - Capcom **''Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II, Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II / Super Muscle Bomber: The International Blowout'' - Capcom *''Sgt Slaughter's Mat Wars'' - Mindscape *Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling Tokon Hono series - Yuke's **''Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling Tokon Hono: Brave Spirits'' **''Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling Tokon Hono 2: The Next Generation'' *''The Simpsons Wrestling'' - Big Ape Productions *''Stardust Suplex'' - Varie *''Super Star Pro Wrestling'' - Nihon Bussan *''Take Down (1988 video game), Take Down'' - Gamestar *''Tecmo World Wrestling'' -
Tecmo , was a Japanese video game corporation founded in 1967. It had its headquarters in Kudankita, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its subsidiary, Tecmo Inc, was located in Torrance, California. Tecmo was formerly known as Tehkan. Tecmo is known for the ''Captain ...
*''Title Match Pro Wrestling'' - Absolute Entertainment *''TNA Impact! (video game), TNA Impact!'' - Midway Studios - Los Angeles, Midway *''TNA Impact!: Cross The Line (video game), TNA Impact!: Cross The Line'' - Midway Studios - Los Angeles, Midway *''Wrestling'' - KAB Software *''Wrestle Kingdom (video game), Wrestle Kingdom'' - Yuke's *''Wrestle Kingdom 2'' - Yuke's *''Wrestle War (video game), Wrestle War'' - Sega *''Wrestling Superstars'' - Codemasters Wrestling video games based on WWE, WWE/WWF properties. *Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) series **''ECW Anarchy Rulz (video game), ECW Anarchy Rulz'' - Acclaim Entertainment, Acclaim **''ECW Hardcore Revolution'' - Acclaim Entertainment, Acclaim *WWE SmackDown! (video game series), SmackDown! series - THQ / Yuke's **''WWF SmackDown! (video game), WWF SmackDown!'' **''WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role'' **''WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It'' **''WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth'' **''WWE SmackDown! Here Comes The Pain'' **''WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW'' **''WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006'' **''WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007'' **''WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008'' **''WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009'' **''WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010'' **''WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011'' *World Championship Wrestling (WCW) series **''WCW Backstage Assault'' **''WCW Mayhem (video game), WCW Mayhem'' **''WCW Nitro (video game), WCW Nitro'' **''WCW/nWo Revenge'' **''WCW/nWo Thunder'' **''WCW SuperBrawl Wrestling'' **''WCW: The Main Event'' **''WCW vs. nWo: World Tour'' **''WCW vs. the World'' **''WCW Wrestling'' *WrestleMania series **''WWF WrestleMania (1989 video game), WWF WrestleMania'' - Acclaim Entertainment, Acclaim **''WWF WrestleMania Challenge'' - LJN **''WWF WrestleMania (1991 video game), WWF WrestleMania (Microcomputer)'' - Ocean Software, Ocean **''WWF Super WrestleMania'' - LJN **''WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge'' - LJN **''WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game'' - Midway **''WWF Road to WrestleMania'' - Natsume (company), Natsume **''WWE Road to WrestleMania X8'' - Natsume (company), Natsume **''WWF WrestleMania 2000 (video game), WWF WrestleMania 2000'' - Syn Sophia, AKI **''WWE WrestleMania X8 (video game), WWE WrestleMania X8'' - Yuke's **''WWE WrestleMania XIX (video game), WWE WrestleMania XIX'' - Yuke's **''WWE WrestleMania 21 (video game), WWE WrestleMania 21'' - Studio Gigante **''WWE Legends of WrestleMania'' - Yuke's * WWE, WWF/WWE series **''MicroLeague Wrestling'' - MicroLeague **''WWE '12'' - Yuke's **''WWE 13'' - Yuke's **''WWE 2K14'' - Yuke's **''WWE 2K15'' - Yuke's **''WWE 2K16'' - Yuke's **''WWE 2K17'' - Yuke's **''WWE 2K18'' - Yuke's **''WWE 2K19'' - Yuke's **''WWE 2K20'' - Yuke's **''WWE All-Stars'' - THQ **''WWF Superstars'' - Technos **''WWF WrestleFest'' - Technos **''WWF Superstars (Game Boy)'' - LJN **''WWF Superstars 2'' - LJN **''WWF European Rampage Tour'' - Ocean Software, Ocean **''WWF Royal Rumble'' - LJN **''WWF Raw (1994 video game), WWF RAW'' - LJN **''WWF King of the Ring (video game), WWF King of the Ring'' - LJN **''WWF Rage in the Cage'' - Acclaim Entertainment, Acclaim **''WWF In Your House (video game), WWF In Your House'' - Acclaim Entertainment, Acclaim **''WWF War Zone'' - Acclaim Entertainment, Acclaim **''WWF Attitude'' - Acclaim Entertainment, Acclaim **''WWF No Mercy (video game), WWF No Mercy'' - Syn Sophia, AKI **''WWF Royal Rumble (2000 video game), WWF Royal Rumble (Dreamcast)'' - Yuke's **''WWE RAW (video game), WWE RAW'' - Anchor Inc., Anchor **''WWE RAW 2'' - Anchor Inc., Anchor **''WWE Survivor Series'' - Natsume (company), Natsume **''WWE Day of Reckoning'' - Yuke's **''WWE Day of Reckoning 2'' - Yuke's


Ball/Disc sports

Games involving flying objects that can include balls and discs, where the players can only interact with each other through the object, and may or may not include goalposts. *''Lethal League'' series - Team Reptile **''Lethal League'' **''Lethal League Blaze'' *''Windjammers (video game), Windjammers'' series -
Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
/ Dotemu **''Windjammers (video game), Windjammers'' -
Data East , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The A ...
**''Windjammers 2'' - Dotemu


By theme


Anime-based fighting games

Games based on popular anime series and 3D variants often feature Cel shading, cell shading. "Anime fighters" also usually have very fast-paced action and put emphasis on offense over defense. Another common feature is that they typically have fighting systems built around doing long combos of dozens of attacks. But overall they appear in a variety of fighting game sub-genres.


2D

*'' Akatsuki EN-Eins'' series - Subtle Style *'' Arcana Heart'' series -
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BlazBlue ''BlazBlue'' is a fighting video game series developed and published in Japan by Arc System Works, and later localized in North America by Aksys Games and in Europe by Zen United. An anime adaptation aired in Autumn 2013. The series has sold 1. ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
**'' BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle'' *'' Chaos Code'' - FK Digital *''Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden - TOSE/Bandai **''Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2 **''Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 3 **''Dragon Ball Z: Shin Butōden'' **''Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butoden'' - Bandai Namco/Game Republic **''Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden'' - Bandai Namco/Arc System Works *''Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors (series), Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors'' series -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Fist of the North Star (2005 video game), Fist of the North Star: The Twin Blue Stars of Judgment'' -
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
**''Guilty Gear (video game), Guilty Gear: The Missing Link'' **''Guilty Gear X'' **''Guilty Gear X2'' **''Guilty Gear Isuka'' - Sammy Corporation, Sammy **''Guilty Gear Dust Strikers'' *''Jump Stars'' series -
Ganbarion Ganbarion (ガンバリオン ''Ganbarion'') is a Japanese video game company founded on August 13, 1999. Their function is the planning/development of home video game software. Two of Ganbarion's major clients are Bandai Namco Entertainment an ...
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Jump Super Stars ''Jump Super Stars'' is a 2D crossover fighting game for the Nintendo DS, based on ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' characters. It was developed by Ganbarion and published by Nintendo. The game was released on August 8, 2005, in Japan and accompanied th ...
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'' *''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (video game), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for The Future'' - Capcom *''
Melty Blood , sometimes shortened as , is a series of 2D visual novel fighting games, co-developed by dōjin circles Type-Moon and French-Bread as the meta-sequel of the Type-Moon's first visual novel ''Tsukihime''. The first game was originall ...
'' series - Type-Moon/French Bread (game developer), French Bread **'' Melty Blood: Type Lumina'' *''Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel -
Examu Examu, formerly known as Yuki Enterprise, was a Japanese video game company founded in 2000. It mostly produced fighting games for arcades and home consoles. It is known for owning Team Arcana, the developer of the original intellectual property ...
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Team Arcana Team Arcana is a Japanese video game developer and a successor of Examu, which mostly produce fighting games for arcades and home console A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display dev ...
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Persona 4 Arena ''Persona 4 Arena'' is a fighting video game co-developed by Atlus and Arc System Works for arcades, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360; the game is a spin-off from the ''Persona'' series, itself part of the larger ''Megami Tensei'' franchise. The game ...
'' - Atlus/
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax ''Persona 4 Arena Ultimax'' is a fighting video game co-developed by Atlus and Arc System Works. It was released for arcades in 2013, and for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2014 by Atlus in Japan and North America and by Sega in Europe. Versions ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Mages (company) , formerly , is a Japanese video game developer and record label for video game and anime music. It was formed on April 6, 2005 after Chiyomaru Shikura left Scitron to begin the company as its executive director, a position he still holds. Th ...
*'' Skullgirls'' - Reverge Labs/Lab Zero Games/Hidden Variable Studios/Future Club *''
Tatsunoko Fight is a fighting video game developed by Electronics Application (Eleca) and published by Takara for the PlayStation game console released in Japan in October 2000. It features characters from various Tatsunoko superhero properties in addition t ...
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Takara Takara Co., Ltd. (株式会社タカラ) was a Japanese toy company founded in 1955. In March 2006, the company merged with Tomy Co., Ltd. to form Takara Tomy. The Takara motto was 遊びは文化」("playing is culture"). Products Toys In 1 ...
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Under Night In-Birth is a 2D fighting game co-developed by Ecole Software and French-Bread. It received many updates for adjustments and characters. Gameplay The game has similar mechanics to ''Melty Blood'', ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue''. It uses three attac ...
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Battle Stadium D.O.N. is a 2006 Japanese crossover fighting game for the GameCube and PlayStation 2. The "D.O.N." in the game's title is derived from '' Dragon Ball Z'', ''One Piece'', and ''Naruto'', the three manga series published by ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' up ...
'' - Namco Bandai Games/
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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Q Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer. The studio created, produced, and published digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units. It was founded on October 10, 2003 by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, formerly of ...
*''DNF Duel'' - Neople/
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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Dragon Ball FighterZ ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'' (pronounced "fighters") is a 2.5D fighting game, developed by Arc System Works and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Based on the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, it was released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Micr ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*'' Dream Mix TV World Fighters'' - Hudson Soft *''Granblue Fantasy Versus'' - Cygames/
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Guilty Gear Xrd is a fighting video game sub-series by Arc System Works and part of the ''Guilty Gear'' series. ''Guilty Gear Xrd'' was developed using Unreal Engine 3, with cel-shaded graphics in place of the series traditional hand drawn sprites. Following t ...
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Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*'' One Piece: Gear Spirit'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom'' - Capcom/
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...


3D

*''Dead or Alive (franchise)'' - Koei Tecmo *''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles'' - CyberConnect2 *''Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout'' - TOSE/Bandai *''Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (series)'' -
Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
*''Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi (series)'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit'' -
Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
*''Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World'' -
Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
*''Dragon Ball: Raging Blast'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2'' - Spike (company), Spike *''Dragon Ball Xenoverse'' - Bandai Namco *''Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2'' - Bandai Namco *''Fate/unlimited codes'' - Type-Moon/
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
/ Capcom *''Groove Adventure Rave: Fighting Live'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*''Legends of the Dark King, Hokuto no Ken: Raoh Gaiden - Ten no Haoh'' - Interchannel/
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle'' - Bandai Namco/CyberConnect2 *''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven'' - Bandai Namco/CyberConnect2 *''J-Stars Victory VS'' - Bandai Namco *''Jump Force'' - Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco *''Kill la Kill the Game: IF'' - A+ Games/
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''Naruto: Clash of Ninja (series)'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
/ Tomy, Takara Tomy **''Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2'' **''Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution'' **''Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2'' **''Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 3'' **''Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4'' **''Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3'' **''Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja for Wii U'' **''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! EX'' **''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! EX 2'' **''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! EX 3'' **''Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! Special'' *''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm'' **''Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2'' **''Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations'' **''Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3'' **''Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution'' *''One Piece: Burning Blood'' - Bandai Namco *''One Piece: Grand Adventure'' - Bandai Namco *''One Piece: Grand Battle'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows'' - Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco *''Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul'' -
Dimps is a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, Japan, with an additional office in Tokyo. It is best known for developing games in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Street Fighter'' franchises. The company was founded on Marc ...
*''Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi: Gekitō! Ragnarok Hachikengō'' - Capcom *''Super Dragon Ball Z'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament'' - Digital Fiction *''Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles / Konjiki no Gash Bell! Yuujou no Tag Battle 2'' -
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
*''Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury / Konjiki no Gash Bell! Gekitou! Saikyou no Mamonotachi'' - Mechanic Arms


Crossover

Fighting games featuring characters from more than one franchise. Typically, these consist of characters across multiple game and/or comic franchises. Others are initially singular franchises featuring guest characters, often via DLC. *'' Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match'' -
Examu Examu, formerly known as Yuki Enterprise, was a Japanese video game company founded in 2000. It mostly produced fighting games for arcades and home consoles. It is known for owning Team Arcana, the developer of the original intellectual property ...
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Battle Stadium D.O.N. is a 2006 Japanese crossover fighting game for the GameCube and PlayStation 2. The "D.O.N." in the game's title is derived from '' Dragon Ball Z'', ''One Piece'', and ''Naruto'', the three manga series published by ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' up ...
'' - Namco Bandai Games /
Eighting , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...
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Q Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer. The studio created, produced, and published digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units. It was founded on October 10, 2003 by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, formerly of ...
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Blade Strangers is a 2D crossover fighting game developed by Studio Saizensen and published by Nicalis, released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows via Steam in August 2018, as well as a Japanese arcade release. It features one-on-one ...
'' - Nicalis *'' BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle'' -
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''Bounty Battle'' - Dark Screen Games *''Brawlhalla'' - Blue Mammoth Games *''Brawlout'' - Angry Mob Games *''Capcom VS.'' series - Capcom **'' Capcom Fighting Evolution'' **''
Marvel vs. Capcom is a series of crossover fighting games developed and published by Capcom, featuring characters from their own video game franchises and comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series originated as coin-operated arcade games, though ...
'' series **SNK vs. Capcom **''Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix'' **''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom'' *'' Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion'' / ''Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL'' - Papaya Studio *''Dead or Alive (franchise), Dead or Alive series'' -
Tecmo , was a Japanese video game corporation founded in 1967. It had its headquarters in Kudankita, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its subsidiary, Tecmo Inc, was located in Torrance, California. Tecmo was formerly known as Tehkan. Tecmo is known for the ''Captain ...
**''Dead or Alive 4'' **''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' **''Dead or Alive 5'' **''Dead or Alive 6'' *''Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax'' - Sega *''DreamMix TV World Fighters'' - Bitstep *'' Fight of Gods'' - Digital Crafter *''Fighters Megamix'' - Sega / Tiger Electronics *''
Fighting EX Layer ''Fighting EX Layer'' is a Fighting game, fighting video game developed by Arika. It is a spiritual successor to ''Fighting Layer'' and the ''Street Fighter EX'' series and features many of the same characters from the latter. The game was release ...
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Arika is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formed in 1995 by former Capcom employees, originally as ARMtech K.K, later named Arika. The name of the company is the reverse of the name of the company's founder, Akira Nishitani, who ...
*''Injustice'' series -
NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
**'' Injustice: Gods Among Us'' **''
Injustice 2 ''Injustice 2'' is a 2017 fighting video game it is the sequel to 2013's '' Injustice: Gods Among Us'' and is the second installment in the ''Injustice'' franchise based upon the DC Universe. It is developed by NetherRealm Studios and publishe ...
'' *''J-Stars Victory VS'' - Spike Chunsoft *''Jump Force'' - Spike Chunsoft *''
Jump Super Stars ''Jump Super Stars'' is a 2D crossover fighting game for the Nintendo DS, based on ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' characters. It was developed by Ganbarion and published by Nintendo. The game was released on August 8, 2005, in Japan and accompanied th ...
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Ganbarion Ganbarion (ガンバリオン ''Ganbarion'') is a Japanese video game company founded on August 13, 1999. Their function is the planning/development of home video game software. Two of Ganbarion's major clients are Bandai Namco Entertainment an ...
*''Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects'' - Nihilistic Software, Nihilistic / EA Canada / Team Fusion *''Mashbox'' *''Mortal Kombat'' series - Midway Games / Avalanche Software / Eurocom / Just Games Interactive / Midway Studios Los Angeles / Other Ocean Interactive / Point of View, Inc. /
NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the s ...
**''Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe'' **'' Mortal Kombat'' **''
Mortal Kombat X ''Mortal Kombat X'' is a 2015 fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It is the tenth main installment in the ''Mortal Kom ...
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Mortal Kombat 11 ''Mortal Kombat 11'' is a 2019 fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the eleventh main installment in the ''Mortal Kombat'' franchise and a sequel to 2015's '' Mortal ...
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MultiVersus ''MultiVersus'' is a 2022 free-to-play crossover fighting video game developed by Player First Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game is a platform fighter, featuring characters from Warner Bros. Discovery franc ...
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE; also known as Warner Bros. Games or WB Games) is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of ...
/ Player First Games *''NeoGeo Battle Coliseum'' - SNK Playmore *''Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl'' - Ludosity / Fair Play Labs *''Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel'' -
Examu Examu, formerly known as Yuki Enterprise, was a Japanese video game company founded in 2000. It mostly produced fighting games for arcades and home consoles. It is known for owning Team Arcana, the developer of the original intellectual property ...
*'' Phantom Breaker'' / ''Phantom Breaker: Extra'' / ''Phantom Breaker: Omnia'' - Mages (company), Mages *''
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale ''PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale'' is a 2012 crossover fighting video game developed by SuperBot Entertainment, in conjunction with Bluepoint Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It features various characters drawn from dif ...
'' - SuperBot Entertainment *''
Samurai Shodown ''Samurai Shodown'', known in Japan as is a fighting game series by SNK. The series began in 1993 and is known for being one of the earliest in the genre with a primary focus on weapon-based combat. Plot The stories in the series take place ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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SNK Gals' Fighters ''SNK Gals' Fighters'' is a 2-dimensional 1-on-1 versus fighting game which appeared on the Neo Geo Pocket Color in 2000. The game was ported to the Nintendo Switch in the eShop on April 29, 2020, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Neo Geo ...
'' - Aicom, Yumekobo *''SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy'' -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
/ Abstraction Games *SNK vs. Capcom (series), ''SNK vs. Capcom'' series - Capcom /
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*''Soulcalibur'' series - Project Soul / Bandai Namco Studios **''Soulcalibur II'' **''Soulcalibur Legends'' **''Soulcalibur IV'' / ''Soulcalibur II HD Online'' **''Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny'' **''Soulcalibur V'' **''Soulcalibur VI'' *'' Street Fighter X Tekken'' - Capcom *''Sunday vs Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen'' -
Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...
*'' Super Smash Bros.'' series - Nintendo /
HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a seco ...
/ Sora / Bandai Namco Studios **'' Super Smash Bros.'' **'' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' **''
Super Smash Bros. Brawl ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' is a 2008 crossover fighting video game developed by Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The third installment in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, it was announced at a pre-E3 2005 press conferenc ...
'' **''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U'' **''
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' is a 2018 crossover fighting video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series, succeed ...
'' *'' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up'' (Wii version) -
Game Arts is a Japan, Japanese video game developer, developer and video game publisher, publisher of video games located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Originally established in 1985 as a computer software company, it expanded into producing for a nu ...
*''Tekken 7'' - Bandai Namco Studios *''
The King of Fighters ''The King of Fighters'' (''KOF'') is a series of fighting games by SNK that began with the release of '' The King of Fighters '94'' in 1994. The series was developed originally for SNK's Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware. This served as the main p ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
/ Eolith (company), Eolith / BrezzaSoft /
Noise Factory was a Japanese video game developer and publisher based out of Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in J ...
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The King of Fighters '94 ''The King of Fighters '94'' (''KOF 94'') is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo (system), Neo Geo-based arcade game, arcade system in 1994, as the first in ''The King of Fighters'' series. The game was also released for the Neo Geo ...
/ The King of Fighters '94 Re-Bout'' **''
The King of Fighters '95 ''(KOF '95)'' is a fighting game produced by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1995. It is the sequel to '' The King of Fighters '94'' and the second game in '' The King of Fighters'' series. It is also the first game in the ser ...
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The King of Fighters '96 ''(KOF '96)'' is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1996. It is the third game in ''The King of Fighters'' series, following ''The King of Fighters '95''. Like its predecessor, the game was ported to the N ...
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The King of Fighters '97 ''(KOF '97)'' is a fighting game produced by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home console in 1997. It is the fourth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series. It was ported to the Neo-Geo CD, as well as the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn in Japan ...
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The King of Fighters '98 ''The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest'', known in Japan as ''The King of Fighters '98: Dream Match Never Ends (KOF '98)'', is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1998. It is the fifth game in ''The Kin ...
/ The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match'' **''King of Fighters R-1'' **''
The King of Fighters '99 ''The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle'' (''KOF '99'') is a 1999 fighting game developed and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1999. It is the sixth installment in ''The King of Fighters'' series, introducing a ...
'' **''King of Fighters R-2'' **''
The King of Fighters 2000 ''(KOF 2000, or KOF '00)'' is a fighting video game that was produced by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 2000. It is the seventh installment in ''The King of Fighters'' series for the Neo Geo and the final game in the series SNK ...
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The King of Fighters 2001 ''(KOF 2001, or KOF '01)'' is a fighting game produced by Eolith (company), Eolith for the Neo Geo (console), Neo Geo. It is the eighth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series, the third and final part of the "NESTS Chronicles" story arc, and the ...
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The King of Fighters 2002 ''(KOF 2002, or KOF '02)'' is a fighting game produced by Eolith and Playmore for the Neo Geo in 2002. It is the ninth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series and the second one to be produced by Eolith and developed by Playmore (formerly Brez ...
/ The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match'' **''
The King of Fighters 2003 ''(KOF 2003, or KOF '03)'', also known by fans as is a fighting game produced by SNK Playmore for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms in 2003. It is the tenth game in ''The King of Fighters'' series and the last one released for the Neo Geo, ...
'' **''The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact'' **'' The King of Fighters Neowave'' **''
The King of Fighters XI ''(KOF XI)'' is a 2D fighting game produced by SNK Playmore. It is the eleventh installment in ''The King of Fighters'' series following '' The King of Fighters 2003''. It was originally released as a coin-operated arcade game for the Atomiswa ...
'' **''The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2 / The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact Regulation-A'' **''
The King of Fighters XII (''KOF XII'') is the twelfth installment of ''The King of Fighters'' series of fighting games developed and published by SNK Playmore. The game was originally released in Japan in April 2009 for arcades. Home versions of the title for Xbox 360 an ...
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The King of Fighters XIII ''(KOF XIII)'' is a fighting game in ''The King of Fighters'' series, developed and published by SNK Playmore originally in 2010. ''King of Fighters XIII'' was released for Japanese arcades on July 14, 2010, while ports for the Xbox 360 and Play ...
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The King of Fighters XIV ''(KOF XIV)'' is a 2016 Japanese fighting game. Part of SNK's franchise '' The King of Fighters'' (''KOF'') series, with this installment being published by Atlus USA in North America and Deep Silver in Europe. After the 13th installment tha ...
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The King of Fighters XV , also called ''KOF XV'', is a fighting game developed by SNK. It was released on February 17, 2022, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. This is also the first game in ''The King of Fighters'' series created using Unreal ...
'' *'' Twinkle Queen'' -
Milestone A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and other places or landmarks; or they can give their position on the route relative to so ...
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Under Night In-Birth is a 2D fighting game co-developed by Ecole Software and French-Bread. It received many updates for adjustments and characters. Gameplay The game has similar mechanics to ''Melty Blood'', ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue''. It uses three attac ...
'' - French Bread (game developer), French Bread / Ecole Software


Eroge

Fighting eroge (erotic games). Fighting games with pornographic elements. *''Battle Raper (series), Battle Raper'' series - Illusion (company), Illusion **''Battle Raper'' **''Battle Raper 2'' *''Strip Fighter'' series - Studio S **''Strip Fighter II'' - Games Express **''Strip Fighter IV'' - Studio S **''Super Strip Fighter IV'' - Studio S **''Ultra Strip Fighter IV Omeco Edition'' - Studio S **''Strip Fighter 5'' - Studio S **''Strip Fighter 5 Abnormal Edition'' - Studio S **''Strip Fighter IV Rainbow'' - Studio S **''Strip Fighter 3 Naked Street King'' - Studio S **''Strip Fighter 5 Chimpocon Edition'' - Studio S *'' Variable Geo'' - Technical Group Laboratory, TGL /
Giga Giga ( or ) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of a short-scale billion or long-scale milliard (109 or ). It has the symbol G. ''Giga'' is derived from the Greek word (''gígas''), meaning "giant". The ''Oxford English Dic ...


Mech

Fighters with a mecha or robot theme. *Armored Warriors series - Capcom **''Armored Warriors'' **'' Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness'' - Capcom *''Gundam: Battle Assault (Series)'' *''
Joy Mech Fight , sometimes called ''Joy Mecha Fight'', is a fighting game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer, released only in Japan on May 21, 1993. The game was released during the generation shift between the Famicom and the newer ...
'' - Nintendo *'' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition'' -
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra'' - Headlock (company), Headlock *'' One Must Fall: 2097'' - Epic Games *''Power Quest (game), Power Quest'' -
Sunsoft , stylized as SUNSOFT, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Sunsoft is the video games division of Japanese electronics manufacturer Sun Corporation. Its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sun Corporation of America, though, a ...
*''Real Steel (video game), Real Steel'' - Yuke's *''
Rise of the Robots ''Rise of the Robots'' is a fighting game released by Time Warner Interactive in 1994 in video gaming, 1994. Originally developed for the Amiga and DOS by Mirage's Instinct Design, it was Port (video gaming), ported to various video game conso ...
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Mirage Media Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd, d/b/a Mirage Media, was a privately owned video game developer and publisher based in Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom. It was directed by Peter Jones, which continues to operate as a separate company. Mir ...
/ Time Warner Interactive **'' Rise 2: Resurrection'' -
Mirage Media Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd, d/b/a Mirage Media, was a privately owned video game developer and publisher based in Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom. It was directed by Peter Jones, which continues to operate as a separate company. Mir ...
/ Acclaim Entertainment *'' Rising Thunder'' - Radiant Entertainment *''Robopit'' - Kokopeli Digital Studios / Altron *''Shin Kidō Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel'' - Natsume Co. Ltd. /
Bandai is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond ...
*''Super Robot Spirits'' -
Banpresto (formerly Coreland Technology Inc.) was a Japanese video game video game development, developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It had a branch in Hong Kong named Banpresto H.K., which was headquartered in t ...
*''Tech Romancer'' - Capcom *''Teleroboxer'' - Nintendo R&D3 *''WarTech: Senko No Ronde'' - G.rev *''Virtual On'' series - Sega


Monster/Kaiju

These games feature monsters as playable characters, usually set in destructible city environments. *''Godzilla video games'' - Toho / Atari *''King of the Monsters (video game), King of the Monsters'' series -
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
*''War of the Monsters'' - Incognito Entertainment / Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony


RPG

Fighting games with RPG elements, like character building or variable storylines. *Dissidia Series **''Dissidia: Final Fantasy'' **''Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy'' **''Dissidia Final Fantasy NT'' *''DNF Duel'' *''Draglade'' *''Dragon Ball Xenoverse'' - Bandai Namco *''Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2'' - Bandai Namco *''Flying Dragon'' *''Granblue Fantasy Versus'' -
Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
*''Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth'' -
Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
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Persona 4 Arena ''Persona 4 Arena'' is a fighting video game co-developed by Atlus and Arc System Works for arcades, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360; the game is a spin-off from the ''Persona'' series, itself part of the larger ''Megami Tensei'' franchise. The game ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax ''Persona 4 Arena Ultimax'' is a fighting video game co-developed by Atlus and Arc System Works. It was released for arcades in 2013, and for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2014 by Atlus in Japan and North America and by Sega in Europe. Versions ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
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Battle Arena Toshinden is a weapons-based fighting game developed by Tamsoft and published by Takara and Sony Computer Entertainment in 1995 for the PlayStation, followed by 1996 ports for the Sega Saturn, Game Boy and MS-DOS. It was one of the first fighting games ...
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Tamsoft is a Japanese video game developer, founded on 26 June 1992. Its current president, Toshiaki Ōta, previously worked at Toaplan as one of the six original team members and head of software development.Translationby Gamengai. ).Translationby Shmu ...
**''Battle Arena Nitoshinden'' *''Exteel'' – NCsoft (only when "SD Mode" is selected) *''Fate/tiger colosseum'' – Capcom / Cavia (company), Cavia / Type-Moon *''Hiryū no Ken, Flying Dragon'' series –
Culture Brain is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded on October 5, 1980. In 2016, it was renamed Culture Brain Excel. History Culture Brain was founded in 1980 as Nihon Game Corporation. In 1981, a subsidiary to handle the sales operations ...
**''SD Hiryū no Ken'' **''SD Hiryū no Ken Gaiden'' **''SD Hiryū no Ken SD Hiryū no Ken Gaiden 2'' **''Flying Dragon'' (only when "SD Mode" is selected) **''SD Hiryū no Ken Densetsu'' **''SD Hiryū no Ken EX'' *''Glove On Fight'' – Watanabe Seisakujo *''
Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...
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Arc System Works , commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue'', a ...
**''Guilty Gear Petit'' **''Guilty Gear Petit 2'' *''King of Fighters (series), King of Fighters'' series –
SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
**''King of Fighters R-1'' **''King of Fighters R-2'' *''Marvel Super Hero Squad (video game), Marvel Super Hero Squad'' – THQ *''
SNK Gals' Fighters ''SNK Gals' Fighters'' is a 2-dimensional 1-on-1 versus fighting game which appeared on the Neo Geo Pocket Color in 2000. The game was ported to the Nintendo Switch in the eShop on April 29, 2020, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Neo Geo ...
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SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...
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Sega-AM2 previously known as is a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega. Yu Suzuki, who had previously developed arcade games for Sega including ''Hang-On'' and ''Out Run'', was the first manager of t ...
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See also

*List of beat 'em ups *M.U.G.E.N.


References


External links

*wikt:Appendix:Fighting game terms, Wiktionary - Appendix:Fighting game terms {{Video game lists by genre Fighting games, * Video game lists by genre, Fighting games