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  • Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 20007 minCapcom 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…
  • Tekken X Street Fighter5 minTekken X Street Fighter was announced to the world on the 24th of July 2010, at the San Diego Comic-Con, and it never came out. That single fact contains a story that stretched across more than a decade of teasers, poll campaigns,…
  • Capcom Fighting Collection 27 minCapcom 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 EX36 minStreet 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 Collection5 minCapcom 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.…
  • Capcom Fighting Evolution5 minCapcom Fighting Evolution arrived in arcades in 2004 carrying a premise that sounded almost too good to be true. Characters from Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Darkstalkers, and the obscure CPS…
  • Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection5 minStreet Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection packed twelve separate arcade fighting games onto one disc, thirteen if you owned a Nintendo Switch. Capcom and the studio Digital Eclipse built it to mark thirty years since the original Street…
  • Street Fighter Alpha 28 minStreet 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 II7 minUltra 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)7 minStreet 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 Millennium5 minSNK 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…
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy8 minDissidia 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 before in the franchise: every hero and every villain from the first ten mainline…
  • Street Fighter II Turbo6 minStreet 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…
  • Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy7 minDissidia 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 game that came before it. That structural gambit placed the twelfth war between…
  • Hyper Street Fighter II4 minCapcom 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 Turbo9 minIn 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 Fighter11 minX-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…
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy NT5 minDissidia 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 announced a new fighting game built on PlayStation 4 core technology. The plan…
  • SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos6 minSNK 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 35 minStreet 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 EX25 minThe 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 Heroes8 minMarvel 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 Fighter6 minMarvel 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…
  • Fighting Layer3 minFighting Layer put its fighters into three dimensions, but it never made the jump from arcade cabinet to living room. Every copy ran on Namco System 12 hardware, inside machines that arcades began receiving in December 1998, and no home…
  • Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact6 minStreet 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)8 minX-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 Classics8 minMarvel 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 Edition8 minStreet 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)8 minStreet 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…
  • Fighter Maker4 minFighter Maker is a series of games for PlayStation consoles and Microsoft Windows that handed players something unusual: the tools to build their own fighters. Not just to choose a character from a roster, but to design one, animate one,…
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite19 minMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is a 2017 crossover fighting game built by Capcom. It sends heroes and villains from the Marvel Comics universe up against Capcom's own cast in tag team battles. Capcom expected the game to sell two million…
  • Capcom vs. SNK 26 minCapcom 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 Alpha10 minStreet 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 Fighter9 minStreet 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…
  • Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U10 minSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U arrived in 2014 as two separate games sharing a single vision: to find the ground between two very different versions of the same franchise. One version fit in your pocket; the other filled a…
  • Street Fighter III13 minStreet 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 Strike8 minStreet 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…
  • Fighting game12 minFighting 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, first posed that question with fist fighting. But it took a decade of iteration,…
  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate16 minSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate began with a dying wish. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata died in 2015. His final request to series director Masahiro Sakurai was to bring Super Smash Bros. to the Nintendo Switch. Sakurai honored that request by…
  • Fatal Fury13 minFatal Fury: King of Fighters became Japan's fourth highest-grossing arcade game of 1992, trailing only two versions of Street Fighter II and Capcom's Captain Commando. That ranking is a strange kind of victory. The man who designed the…
  • Street Fighter X Tekken9 minStreet Fighter X Tekken arrived in 2012 as one of gaming's most unexpected partnerships. Two of the biggest fighting game franchises in history, built on completely different philosophies, were finally sharing a stage. But which studio's…
  • Super Street Fighter II8 minSuper 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…
  • Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 38 minUltimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 arrived in stores on the 15th of November 2011, less than nine months after the game it was based on had launched. That is an unusually short gap between a fighting game and its successor. The reason it exists…
  • Street Fighter II12 minStreet 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…
  • Tekken6 minTekken began not as a fighting game, but as an internal experiment at Namco to test how well a studio could animate 3D character models. That experiment, launched in 1994, became one of the most commercially successful fighting game…
  • Darkstalkers14 minDarkstalkers 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…
  • Fighting EX Layer6 minFighting EX Layer is a 2018 fighting video game built and published by the Japanese studio Arika. On April Fools' Day in 2017, Arika posted online footage of an unnamed fighting game prototype. Staff had built it while experimenting with…
  • Final Fight (video game)10 minFinal Fight arrived in arcades in 1989 with a premise that could have come straight out of a Hollywood action film: a former pro wrestler turned city mayor tears through six rounds of urban chaos to rescue his kidnapped daughter. Capcom's…
  • Dynasty Warriors8 minDynasty Warriors began life in 1997 not as the genre-defining franchise it would become, but as a one-on-one fighting game for the PlayStation. That first title drew comparisons to Samurai Shodown, Soul Blade, and Virtua Fighter - games…
  • Dead or Alive (franchise)9 minDead 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, including vice president Junji Nakamura: he would create a game with a genuine…

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