Introduction Street Fighter II Turbo was developed and published by Capcom, released for the SNES in 1993 as an enhanced port of the arcade update Street Fighter II’: Hyper Fighting. Building on the original Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Turbo introduced faster gameplay speeds, new special moves for the existing eight World Warriors, and…
Introduction Waku Waku 7 was developed by Sunsoft, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system on November 21, 1996, as a deliberately lighthearted, comedic fighting game built around a cast of seven eccentric main characters rather than a numbered sequel to an earlier title, despite what its name might suggest. Its roster includes a…
Introduction Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle, released in Japan as Fu’un Super Tag Battle, was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system on September 20, 1996, as a weapon-based tag-team fighting game. Players select a team of two fighters and can freely swap between them mid-match by tagging in…
Introduction Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system in March 1998 as the direct sequel to the previous year’s Real Bout Fatal Fury Special. True to its subtitle, the game introduced several brand-new characters to the series for the first time…
Introduction Real Bout Fatal Fury Special was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system on January 28, 1997, as an expanded update to the previous year’s Real Bout Fatal Fury, following the same pattern SNK had used for earlier “Special” revisions of its other fighting series. The game brought…
Introduction Real Bout Fatal Fury was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system on December 21, 1995, as a significant course correction from the plane-switching mechanics introduced in Fatal Fury 3. The game replaced that system’s foreground-and-background lanes with a single fighting plane bordered by ring-out edges, letting players…
Introduction Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system on March 27, 1995, as the third mainline entry in the Fatal Fury series. The game introduced a redesigned two-plane fighting system that gave players more freedom to weave between the foreground…
Introduction Garou: Mark of the Wolves was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system in 1999 as a spiritual successor to the long-running Fatal Fury series, set roughly a decade after the events of Fatal Fury 3 with an almost entirely new cast of playable fighters. The game introduced…
Introduction The Last Blade, released in Japan as Bakumatsu Roman: Gekka no Kenshi, was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system on December 5, 1997, as a weapon-based fighting game set during Japan’s Bakumatsu period, the turbulent final years of the Edo shogunate. Players choose from a roster of…
Introduction Art of Fighting 2 was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system in 1994 as the sequel to 1992’s Art of Fighting. The game continued the story of Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia while expanding the roster with new fighters and refining the original’s technical systems, including a…
Introduction Art of Fighting was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system in 1992 as the studio’s second major fighting game franchise, set as a prequel within the same shared universe as SNK’s earlier Fatal Fury series. The game follows martial artist Ryo Sakazaki and his sister Yuri as…
Introduction Sengoku 2 was developed and published by SNK, released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system in 1993 as the direct sequel to 1991’s Sengoku. The game preserved the original’s core premise of fighting through supernatural, folklore-inspired enemies across a Japan menaced by dark magic, while refining the combat with a more varied moveset…