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Capcom games

  • Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000Leon S. Kennedy and Mega Man were meant to be playable in Capcom vs. SNK. Both were cut to keep a fighting-game roster.
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992 video game)To beat the 1992 NES Empire Strikes Back game, you must rescue Han Solo and defeat Darth Vader.
  • Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution was built from a cancelled 3D fighting game. It salvaged Capcom Fighting All-Stars.
  • Star Wars (1991 video game)In the 1991 Star Wars NES game, Darth Vader appears only on the Game Over screen. Han and Leia get one life each.
  • Ultra Street Fighter IIUltra Street Fighter II lets you throw Ryu's Hadouken by holding a Joy-Con in each hand.
  • Resident Evil (2002 video game)Resident Evil, the 2002 survival horror game that Capcom made for the GameCube, ended its development with an exhausting sprint. Its programmers worked for two straight months with no days off to meet the deadline. The game was a remake of…
  • Hyper Street Fighter IIHyper Street Fighter II, released by Capcom in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, contains only 17 unique characters. Yet those fighters appear in 65 different versions, each one carried over from an earlier arcade game. That number turns a…
  • Resident Evil 3 (2020 video game)Resident Evil 3 is a horror game from Capcom, released in 2020, in which a former police officer named Jill Valentine tries to get out of a city full of zombies. She is not simply fleeing. Something was built to find her, and it keeps…
  • Resident Evil 2 (2019 video game)Resident Evil 2, the 2019 survival horror game from Capcom, begins on the night of the 29th of September 1998. A rookie police officer named Leon S. Kennedy is heading for Raccoon City to start his first shift. A college student named…
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice CityGrand Theft Auto: Vice City, a 2002 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, sold more than 500,000 copies within 24 hours of its release. Within two days it had reached 1.4 million, which made it the fastest-selling game in history at…
  • Super Gem Fighter Mini MixIn Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, Ken searches for a woman to have tea with.
  • Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2 may be the first game with online play between rival consoles. This worked only in Japan.
  • Resident Evil 5In May 2026, Capcom's financial release reported that Resident Evil 5 had sold 19.01 million copies. That figure made this 2009 third-person shooter the best-selling game in the Resident Evil series. Capcom developed and published it, and…
  • Resident Evil 4 (2023 video game)Resident Evil 4, Capcom's 2023 survival horror remake, earned an unusual compliment from the man who made the original. Shinji Mikami, who directed the 2005 game, said on Twitter that he enjoyed the remake very much. He also admitted that…
  • Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (video game)The Harvey Birdman video game borrowed its courtroom system from Phoenix Wright.
  • Namco × CapcomCapcom broke an industry norm by teaming up with its rival Namco. The 2005 game Namco x Capcom never left Japan.
  • Project X ZoneProject X Zone sold more than ten times what its publisher expected in the West.
  • Devil May Cry 5A hooded stranger walks into a demon-hunting office in Devil May Cry 5, and the young hunter on duty, Nero, politely offers him something to eat. The stranger answers by ripping off a demonic Devil Bringer arm, which transforms in his hand…
  • Dragon's DogmaCapcom executives doubted Dragon's Dogma, the first open-world game ever proposed for a Capcom title.
  • ŌkamiŌkami began as a one-minute movie of a wolf racing through a forest, with flowers blooming in its footsteps. Hideki Kamiya made that clip with no gameplay behind it at all. From it grew a 2006 action-adventure about Amaterasu, the Shinto…
  • Resident Evil 4Resident Evil 4 is a 2005 survival horror game from Capcom, released first for the GameCube, and by March 2025 it had sold 15.2 million copies. Its hero is Leon S. Kennedy, a special agent dropped into rural Spain on a rescue mission.…

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