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Fighting 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…
- Tekken X Street FighterKatsuhiro Harada stood before a crowd at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con to announce a project that would merge two of gaming's most famous fighting universes.
- Capcom Fighting Collection 2Capcom Fighting Collection 2 arrived in May 2025 as a digital and physical compilation of eight distinct arcade titles. The collection bridges the gap…
- Street Fighter EX3Street Fighter EX3 arrived on the 4th of March 2000 in Japan. It served as an exclusive launch title for the PlayStation 2 console.
- Capcom Fighting CollectionCapcom released a compilation containing ten arcade games in June 2022. The collection features nine fighting titles and one puzzle game originally developed…
- 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 30th Anniversary CollectionThe collection arrived in May 2018 to mark thirty years of the Street Fighter series. Digital Eclipse built a package containing twelve arcade versions for…
- 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…
- Ultra Street Fighter IIOn the 26th of May 2017, Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers launched on the Nintendo Switch. This release marked a specific moment in video game…
- 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…
- SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumTakashi Nishiyama, a former director at SNK, walked into a meeting with Yoshiki Okamoto, the head of development at Capcom.
- Dissidia Final FantasyDissidia Final Fantasy arrived on the PlayStation Portable in Japan on the 18th of December 2008, and it brought with it a premise that had never been tried…
- 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…
- Dissidia 012 Final FantasyDissidia 012 Final Fantasy arrived on the PlayStation Portable in March 2011 carrying an unusual promise: it was simultaneously a prequel and a remake of the…
- 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…
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsIn December 2013, Capcom announced that the digital releases of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 were to be delisted due to the expiration of their character…
- 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…
- Street Fighter: The Movie (console video game)Capcom released Street Fighter: The Movie for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1995. This title served as a North American launch title for the new console…
- Fighter MakerAgetec released Fighter Maker as part of its Designer Series for PlayStation consoles. This 3D-based game allowed users to create custom moves for their…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: InfinitePlayers control two characters instead of three in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. This change replaced the traditional three-on-three format used since 1996's…
- 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…
- Street FighterIn August 1987, an arcade cabinet bearing the name Street Fighter opened its doors to players in Japan. Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto designed this…
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii UFormer Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata first announced a new Super Smash Bros. game for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U at E3 in June 2011.
- 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…
- Fighting gameFighting games put two characters in an arena and ask a simple question: who wins? Sega's black-and-white arcade cabinet Heavyweight Champ, released in 1976…
- Super Smash Bros. UltimatePlanning for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate began in December 2015, shortly after the downloadable content for the previous Nintendo 3DS and Wii U versions was…
- Fatal FuryIn 1991, SNK released Fatal Fury: King of Fighters on its Neo Geo arcade system. Takashi Nishiyama designed the game after leaving Capcom to work for SNK.
- Street Fighter X TekkenAt the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono stood on stage teasing a new project.
- 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…
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3On the 20th of July 2011, Capcom announced an updated version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds at San Diego Comic-Con.
- 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…
- TekkenIn 1994, Namco released the first Tekken arcade cabinet, marking a pivotal shift in video game history. This machine ran on the Namco System 11 board and…
- DarkstalkersIn 1994, Capcom released Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors in Japanese arcades. This release marked a departure from the realistic martial arts style that…
- 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…
- 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…