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Jan 27, 2018 · Fighting games weren’t always a genre that you could describe as niche. Back in the early 90’s they were very much a household name of sorts. Arcades were still thriving, blockbuster movie...
- The Kung-Fu Craze
- The First Fighters
- Enter The Franchise
- Decline and Rebirth
While the number of fighting games released in 1970s can probably be counted on your fingers, the 1970s planted many of the seeds from which the genre later flourished. Most notably, the 1970s saw an explosion in the popularity of martial arts films. A spike in popularity largely attributed to one legendary figure: Bruce Lee. Films like Game of Dea...
As games developed throughout the 1970s, fist-fighting games based on boxing became popular. Sega’s Heavyweight Champ, for example, release for arcade consoles in 1976. Three years later Warrior, developed by the short-lived US company Vectorbeam, introduced sword-fighting to the mix while keeping the same one-versus-one format. Fast forward to 198...
Throughout the rest of the 1980s, countless developers chimed in on the ever-more popular genre. While many games fell to the wayside, largely lost to history, the following 10 years saw many of the most foundational franchises emerge. Capcom’s Street Fighter released into arcades in 1987 innovating a unique control scheme using a punching-pad cabi...
By the early 2000s, the fighting game genre was one of the most ubiquitous in gaming. And with that ubiquity comes player fatigue. While developers continued to flood the market with sequels, new IPs and absurd mashups—from Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe to Capcom vs SNK: Millennium Fight 2000—players slowly moved onto other genres which were themsel...
Jan 6, 2023 · Fighting games were among the first esports games, with Street Fighter Arcade Games being played in tournaments as early as 1996, and Super Smash Bros being played professionally by 2004. However, many of the tournaments of the mid to late nineties were on a smaller scale than what we know today.
Nov 14, 2024 · All major fighting game releases dating back to 1985 are listed here. Click a game title to open TFG's Profile / Review, complete with Character Profiles, Art Galleries, Release Dates, Fun Facts, etc. For the same list of fighting games in alphabetical order, visit TFG's GAMES page.
Apr 21, 2012 · While games like The Way of the Exploding Fist are viewed as the birth of the fighting games genre, but the game that set the standard was the original Street Fighter, which was innovative, being the first fighting game to make use of “special moves.”
Dec 14, 2020 · Fighting games, though, have been around since the very beginning of the medium. The first one we hit on this list landed in arcades in 1976 – a full 40 years ago! Lace up your gloves, charge up your ki, and let’s write the book on the history of fighting games.
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Dec 15, 2012 · Fighting games beginnings arent exactly rooted in the kind of titles we recognize as being part of the genre today. Instead, the first instance of virtual hand-to-hand combat was in...
