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Street Fighter II's combos began as a bug, and the team kept it after it showed up in the car-smashing bonus stage. Capcom went on to make sequels and crossovers with licensed heroes, including X-Men vs. Street Fighter, where each player controlled two fighters. Super Street Fighter II Turbo hid Akuma behind a code, and tournaments banned him. Rival SNK joined in with SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, partly to help the Neo Geo Pocket Color. Dissidia Final Fantasy began as a game about Disney characters.

  • 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.
  • Tekken X Street FighterAnimations made for the unreleased Tekken X Street Fighter were reused for Akuma in Tekken 7.
  • Capcom Fighting Collection 2Capcom Fighting Collection 2 brought back two crossover fighting games missing since the early 2000s.
  • Street Fighter EX3Street Fighter EX3 launched with the PlayStation 2 in Japan on March 4, 2000.
  • Capcom Fighting CollectionRed Earth, an arcade fighter, reached home players in Capcom Fighting Collection. It had only been in arcade cabinets.
  • Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution was built from a cancelled 3D fighting game. It salvaged Capcom Fighting All-Stars.
  • Street Fighter 30th Anniversary CollectionStreet Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection put twelve arcade games on one disc, thirteen on Nintendo Switch.
  • Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2 was Japan's top arcade game of 1996. It arrived less than a year after the first Alpha.
  • Ultra Street Fighter IIUltra Street Fighter II lets you throw Ryu's Hadouken by holding a Joy-Con in each hand.
  • Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game)Street Fighter: The Movie was an arcade game based on a film based on a game. Critics widely panned the 1995 release.
  • SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumRivals SNK and Capcom teamed up partly to help a struggling handheld, the Neo Geo Pocket Color.
  • Dissidia Final FantasyDissidia Final Fantasy began as a game about Disney characters fighting.
  • Street Fighter II TurboStreet Fighter II Turbo reached arcades in 1992 as an upgrade kit.
  • Dissidia 012 Final FantasyDissidia 012 Final Fantasy is both a prequel and a remake of the game before it. It launched on PSP in March 2011.
  • 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…
  • Super Street Fighter II TurboIn Japan, no arcade game earned more in 1994 than Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Capcom built it for arcade cabinets as the fifth installment in the Street Fighter II sub-series, following Super Street Fighter II from 1993. Oddly, it did…
  • X-Men vs. Street FighterX-Men vs. Street Fighter gave each player two fighters instead of one. Capcom's 1996 arcade game used a tag system.
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy NTDissidia Final Fantasy NT began in a Japanese arcade, not on a home console.
  • SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosTwo fighters born in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos later joined other games. Violent Ken and Serious Mr. Karate outlived it.
  • Street Fighter Alpha 3Thirty-nine fighters. That is how large the playable cast of Street Fighter Alpha 3 grew on its biggest portable edition. The game itself began in 1998 as a Capcom arcade title. It was the third and final installment of the Street Fighter…
  • Street Fighter EX2Street Fighter EX2 let players chain basic and special moves into Excel Combos.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesMarvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes let Mega Man fight Marvel heroes. It was a first for the series.
  • Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterMarvel kept a comedian's fighter out of Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter abroad for over two decades.
  • Fighting LayerFighting Layer let fighters step sideways, which Street Fighter EX never allowed.
  • Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactStreet Fighter III: 2nd Impact was the only Capcom CPS3 game with a widescreen feature.
  • X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)Capcom's X-Men arcade game hides Akuma because its Marvel contract required a Street Fighter character.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsIn December 2013, Capcom pulled three Marvel vs. Capcom games from sale. Their licensing deal with Marvel had expired.
  • Street Fighter II: Champion EditionStreet Fighter II: Champion Edition let players become the bosses. The four final opponents became playable in 1992.
  • Street Fighter: The Movie (console video game)Raul Julia died before the Street Fighter movie game was finished. His stunt double played Bison.
  • Fighter MakerFighter Maker let players build their own fighters, not just pick one.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: InfiniteMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite cut its fights from three characters to two.
  • Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2 may be the first game with online play between rival consoles. This worked only in Japan.
  • Mortal Kombat (1992 video game)Mortal Kombat, the 1992 arcade fighting game from Midway, spent six months of its development without a name. Co-creator Ed Boon later said that nobody could come up with a name "nobody didn't hate." The rejected candidates included…
  • Street Fighter AlphaStreet Fighter Alpha was built for two different arcade boards at once. Capcom had leftover stocks of both.
  • Street FighterStreet Fighter player Daigo Umehara parried 15 hits in a row with one pixel of health left in 2004.
  • Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii UA 2015 Smash fan poll kept its top winners secret until October 2021. Sora and Banjo and Kazooie led the vote.
  • Street Fighter IIIStreet Fighter III stayed hand-drawn while rivals moved to 3D. Capcom built a new arcade board for its 2D art.
  • Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike sold modestly in 1999, yet IGN later named it the greatest fighting game ever made.
  • Fighting gameDaigo Umehara parried 15 straight hits with one pixel of health left. It happened in a 2004 fighting game semi-final.
  • Super Smash Bros. UltimateSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate began with a dying wish from Nintendo's president. It was Satoru Iwata's last request.
  • Fatal FuryIn fan surveys, Fatal Fury's villain Geese Howard beat its hero Terry Bogard. SNK was surprised by his popularity.
  • Street Fighter X TekkenStreet Fighter X Tekken shipped with 12 paid characters already on the disc. Capcom said it locked them to save space.
  • Super Street Fighter IISuper Street Fighter II let eight players compete in one tournament across four linked arcade cabinets.
  • Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3The 2011 Tohoku earthquake led Capcom to make Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Planned add-ons became a separate game.
  • Super Smash Bros.Super Smash Bros. is a series of platform fighting games published by Nintendo, and it began as a prototype called Dragon King: The Fighting Game. Only three people built that prototype. Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the series, handled…
  • Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II's combos began as a bug that the team chose to keep. It appeared in the car-smashing bonus stage.
  • TekkenIn Tekken, a son throws his father off a cliff, and the father survives to throw him into a volcano.
  • DarkstalkersIn Darkstalkers, Demitri's move Midnight Bliss turns an opponent into a girl before he drains their blood.
  • Fighting EX LayerFighting EX Layer began as an April Fools' Day 2017 video of an unnamed prototype. Fans liked it.
  • Final Fight (video game)Final Fight, Capcom's arcade brawler, began as Street Fighter '89. Operators said the name was misleading.

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