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Arcade video games
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000Capcom released the original game in 2000 for arcades using Sega NAOMI hardware. This specific machine powered the initial arcade experience before a port…
- Capcom Fighting EvolutionThe year 2004 marked the release of Capcom Fighting Evolution, a game that emerged from the wreckage of an earlier project.
- Street Fighter Alpha 2In February 1996, Capcom unveiled Street Fighter Zero 2 at the AOU show in Tokyo. The arcade cabinet introduced a new system called Custom Combo that…
- Silent Hill: The ArcadeKonami revealed Silent Hill: The Arcade at the 2007 Japan Arcade Operator's Union trade show. Polygon Magic developed this arcade game spin-off of the…
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade EditionOn the 4th of April 2010, producer Yoshinori Ono confirmed an arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV during the Japanese Street Fighter IV finals.
- Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game)In 1995, a five-person team from Incredible Technologies traveled to Australia with rented camera equipment. They planned to film the actors for less than…
- Street Fighter II TurboCapcom released Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting in 1992 as an enhancement kit for existing arcade cabinets. This distribution method allowed…
- 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…
- 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…
- X-Men vs. Street FighterCapcom released X-Men vs. Street Fighter in September 1996 for the CP System II arcade board. This title marked the company's third fighting game to feature…
- Dissidia Final Fantasy NTDissidia Final Fantasy NT began not on a home console but in a Japanese arcade. At the Japan Amusement Expo trade show in Chiba in February 2015, Square Enix…
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosSNK Playmore released SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos in 2003 for the Neo Geo arcade platform. The game arrived as the third entry in a crossover series between…
- 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…
- Street Fighter EX2Street Fighter EX2 emerged from a partnership between Capcom and Arika in 1998. The game debuted as a coin-operated arcade machine built on Sony ZN-2…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesIn February 1998, the CP System II arcade board powered a new fighting game called Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes.
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterIn 1997, Capcom released a fighting game that introduced a mechanic players had never seen before. The Variable Assist allowed a player to summon their…
- Fighting LayerArika released Fighting Layer in December 1998. The studio built the game on Namco System 12 arcade hardware. This machine powered many popular titles during…
- Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactCapcom released Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact in October 1997. The game ran on the CP System III hardware, a new board designed for arcade cabinets.
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)Capcom released X-Men: Children of the Atom on CP System II arcade hardware in December 1994. The game arrived in Japan first, followed by North America and…
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1985 video game)Atari Games released Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1985 as a conversion kit for their existing arcade cabinet. This strategy allowed the company to…
- Street Fighter II: Champion EditionThe year 1992 brought a quiet revolution to the arcade floor. Street Fighter II: Champion Edition arrived with four new playable fighters who had previously…
- Super Gem Fighter Mini MixCapcom released Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix in Japanese arcades during 1997. The cabinet featured the CPS II hardware that powered many of their hit titles…
- Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 arrived in arcades on NAOMI hardware during 2001. Sega handled the North American arcade release for this…
- Street Fighter AlphaProduction for Street Fighter Alpha began in October 1994 following the release of Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors. Capcom gave its development team only…
- Arcade video gameIn 1966, Sega released Periscope, an electro-mechanical game that used lights and moving parts to simulate a submarine attack.
- Star Wars (1983 video game)Atari released the Star Wars arcade cabinet in 1983 using a unique hardware design that rendered 3D color vector graphics.
- Street Fighter IIIOn the 27th of March 1996, Capcom announced that Street Fighter III was in development during a meeting in Tokyo. Production at Capcom on the first game in…
- Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike hit arcade floors in May of 1999. It ran on Capcom's CP System III hardware, a machine built to handle the game's complex…
- Super Street Fighter IICapcom released Super Street Fighter II in 1993 on a new machine called the CP System II. This hardware replaced the older CP System used for previous…
- Pac-ManIn early 1979, Toru Iwatani began work on a project that would change the video game industry forever. He was just twenty-four years old when he joined…
- Street Fighter IICapcom began work on Street Fighter II in 1989, following the commercial success of Final Fight. Yoshiki Okamoto led a team of approximately 35 to 40 people…
- Fighting EX LayerArika released a trailer for an untitled 3D fighting game prototype on the 1st of April 2017. Staff members had been working with Unreal Engine 4 to create…
- Final Fight (video game)In 1987, Capcom released Street Fighter, a fighting game that would become a cultural phenomenon. Two years later, the company began work on what was…
- Space InvadersTomohiro Nishikado spent a year designing Space Invaders in 1978. He worked alone to create custom hardware for the arcade cabinet.
- Dead or Alive (franchise)Dead or Alive began as a wager. In the mid-1990s, Tecmo was in financial trouble, and a programmer named Tomonobu Itagaki made a bet with company management…