Curated playlist
2D fighting games
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 opens its story with two powerful organizations trying to ease political tension through martial arts. The Garcia Financial Clique and the Masters Foundation stage a tournament called Millennium Fight…
- Capcom Fighting Collection 2Capcom Fighting Collection 2 arrived on the 16th of May 2025 as the third entry in Capcom's Fighting Collection series. Its headline feature was a pair of fighting games that had been absent from the market since the early 2000s. Eight…
- Street Fighter EX3Street Fighter EX3 arrived in Japan on the 4th of March, 2000, not as a follow-up to anything familiar, but as a launch title for an entirely new machine: the PlayStation 2. In a single moment, a franchise built on 2D sprites and arcade…
- Capcom Fighting CollectionCapcom Fighting Collection was announced on the 20th of February 2022, during the Season Final of Capcom Pro Tour 2021. Street Fighter 6 was unveiled at the same event; Fighting Collection arrived as the second announcement of the night.…
- Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2 made its public debut at the February 1996 AOU show in Tokyo. It arrived less than a year after Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, its direct predecessor. Among the new characters was Sakura, a face that had…
- Ultra Street Fighter IIUltra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers arrived on the Nintendo Switch on the 26th of May 2017, resurrecting a fight three decades old. It is an updated version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo from 1994, itself an update of Street…
- Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game)Street Fighter: The Movie is a 1995 arcade fighting game that arrived at an unusual crossroads: a video game adapted from a film that was itself adapted from a video game. Capcom, the franchise's owner and the film's financier, handed…
- SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumSNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium arrived in 1999 as something that fighting game fans had argued about in arcades for years: which company's fighters were truly the best? SNK and Capcom were bitter rivals, each running a stable…
- Street Fighter II TurboStreet Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting reached arcades in 1992 not as a new machine but as an upgrade kit. Capcom built it for installation directly into Champion Edition circuit boards already in those arcades, less than a year after…
- Hyper Street Fighter IICapcom released Hyper Street Fighter II in 2003 to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Street Fighter series. The game arrived on PlayStation 2 as a modified port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo from 1994. Developers chose this specific…
- Super Street Fighter II TurboIn April 1994, the arcade cabinet for Super Street Fighter II Turbo began spinning coins in Japan. Game Machine listed it as the second most successful table unit that month, trailing only Virtua Fighter. This hardware ran on Capcom's CP…
- X-Men vs. Street FighterX-Men vs. Street Fighter arrived in Japanese arcades in September 1996 and claimed the top spot on Japan's arcade charts the following month. Game Machine tracked the country's most commercially successful arcade releases. The publication…
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosSNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos arrived in arcades in 2003 as the dream matchup fans of two rival fighting game giants had been waiting for. SNK Playmore built the game on Neo Geo hardware, a platform long associated with the company's most…
- Street Fighter Alpha 3Street Fighter Alpha 3 arrived in Japanese arcades during the summer of 1998. It ran on Capcom's CP System II hardware, a board that had powered previous entries in the series. The machine processed sprites and sound to create fast-paced…
- Street Fighter EX2The 1st of July 1998 issue of Game Machine declared Street Fighter EX2 the most-successful arcade game of the month in Japan. Capcom and Arika co-produced the game, releasing it as an arcade title for the Sony ZN-2 hardware. Street Fighter…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesMarvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes arrived in Japanese arcades in February 1998, and within weeks it had done something its predecessors had not: it flung open the door beyond Street Fighter. For the first time in the series, players…
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterMarvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter hit arcades in 1997. Game Machine ranked it the third most successful arcade game in Japan that August. Capcom built the game as the direct sequel to X-Men vs. Street Fighter, which had arrived in…
- Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactStreet Fighter III: 2nd Impact landed in arcades in October 1997, and it arrived carrying a quiet distinction that no other game in Capcom's CPS3 library could claim: it was the only title running on that hardware to offer a widescreen…
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)X-Men: Children of the Atom arrived in Japanese arcades in December 1994 carrying a technical problem that would shape every decision its makers faced. The arcade cabinet ran on CP System II hardware and used 32 megabytes of RAM just for…
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsMarvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics was not revealed at a fighting game tournament. It surfaced during a June 2024 Nintendo Direct, a presentation aimed at casual audiences and families. The competitive gaming community…
- Street Fighter II: Champion EditionStreet Fighter II: Champion Edition arrived in arcades in 1992 with a promise: every fighter you had faced, you could now become. In the original Street Fighter II: The World Warrior from 1991, four characters called the Grand Masters…
- Street Fighter: The Movie (console video game)Street Fighter: The Movie arrived on store shelves in September 1995 as a launch title for the PlayStation in North America, and it sold out within a month. That commercial triumph looked, on the surface, like a win. But the critics had…
- Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 arrived in arcades in the summer of 2001, asking a question that fighting game fans had argued about for years: whose fighters were better, Capcom's or SNK's? The game put 48 characters from…
- Street Fighter AlphaStreet Fighter Alpha arrived in arcades in 1995 carrying a question that Capcom had not answered in four years: what comes before Street Fighter II? The last all-new Street Fighter game had been Street Fighter II itself, released in 1991.…
- Street FighterStreet Fighter arrived in arcades in August 1987, the creation of Capcom designers Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto. A young martial artist named Ryu traveled a worldwide tournament across five countries, throwing fireballs called…
- Street Fighter IIIStreet Fighter III arrived in arcades in 1997. It followed 1991's Street Fighter II, the game that had turned the series into a phenomenon. Capcom's own general producer, Noritaka Funamizu, explained the biggest gamble behind the new game…
- Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike arrived in arcades in May 1999, and almost nobody cared. The game sold modestly, drew mixed reviews, and landed during a moment when the fighting game world was chasing 3D graphics and home consoles were…
- Super Street Fighter IISuper Street Fighter II reached arcades in 1993 as the fourth version Capcom had released under the Street Fighter II name. Game Machine in Japan ranked it the most popular table arcade game of October 1993. This was the first Street…
- Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II arrived in arcades in 1991 and changed the way people played games in public spaces. By 1994, an estimated 25 million people in the United States alone had played it. That figure does not count Japan, Europe, or the rest…
- DarkstalkersDarkstalkers is a Japanese fighting game series and media franchise built by Capcom around monsters pulled from folklore across the world. In 2007, producer Yoshinori Ono told an interviewer he hoped to bring the series back one day. He…