Curated playlist
Multiplayer and single-player video games
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000Capcom 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 FighterTekken 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 2Capcom 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 EX3Street 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 CollectionCapcom 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.…
- Final Fantasy Legend IIFinal Fantasy Legend II shipped in Japan on the 14th of December 1990, carrying a name that was, in its home country, entirely different: SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu. That gap between identities tells you something about the game's unusual…
- Street Fighter CollectionStreet Fighter Collection arrived in 1997 carrying a promise that its title implied: everything you loved about Street Fighter, gathered in one place. Capcom developed and published the compilation for both the Sega Saturn and PlayStation,…
- Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom 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 CollectionStreet 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 2Street 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 IIUltra 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…
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy OriginStranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin opens not with a hero, but with a man named Jack who wants only one thing: to destroy Chaos. Released in March 2022, this action role-playing game celebrates the Final Fantasy series' 35th…
- Silent Hill: The ArcadeSilent Hill: The Arcade drops six friends from Portland into one of horror's most iconic fog-drenched towns, and almost none of them make it back out in one piece. Polygon Magic built this game as a spin-off of the long-running Silent Hill…
- Sid Meier's Antietam!Sid Meier's Antietam! arrived in December 1999 as something unusual: a commercial wargame that bypassed retail stores entirely. Sid Meier, the co-founder of Firaxis Games, had designed it as a prequel to his 1997 title Sid Meier's…
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade EditionSuper Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition arrived in Japanese arcades in 2010 with a question hanging over it: was this the final chapter of one of fighting games' most beloved franchises? Producer Yoshinori Ono confirmed the arcade…
- Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game)Street 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 MillenniumSNK 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 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 before in the franchise: every hero and every villain from the first ten mainline…
- Street Fighter II TurboStreet 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 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 game that came before it. That structural gambit placed the twelfth war between…
- 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 modified port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo from 1994. Developers chose this specific…
- 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 unit that month, trailing only Virtua Fighter. This hardware ran on Capcom's CP…
- X-Men vs. Street FighterX-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 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 announced a new fighting game built on PlayStation 4 core technology. The plan…
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosSNK 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…
- Sid Meier's Gettysburg!Sid Meier's Gettysburg! arrived in 1997 with a question baked into its design: what if the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War could be fought again, differently? Developed by Firaxis Games and published by Electronic Arts, it let…
- Final Fantasy IV (2007 video game)Final Fantasy IV (2007 video game) arrived on the Nintendo DS on the 20th of December 2007 in Japan, timed precisely to the Final Fantasy series' 20th anniversary. The game being celebrated was not a new entry but a rebuilt one: a full…
- 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 entries in the series. The machine processed sprites and sound to create fast-paced…
- Street Fighter EX2The 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…
- Street Fighter Alpha AnthologyCompleting every game in Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is the only path to its deepest title: Hyper Street Fighter Alpha. That hidden mode represents just one layer of an unusually dense 2006 PlayStation 2 compilation. Seven games sit on…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesMarvel 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 FighterMarvel 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…
- Capcom Classics CollectionCapcom Classics Collection landed on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2005, offering players a vault of arcade history in a single package. Behind the disc was not one studio but three: Backbone Entertainment, Sensory Sweep, and Klein Computer…
- Fighting LayerFighting 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…
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)X-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…
- Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years asks a question most sequels are afraid to pose: what happens seventeen years later, when the heroes have grown old and their children must face a threat their parents barely survived? The second moon has…
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsMarvel 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…
- Star Wars: Jedi ArenaStar Wars: Jedi Arena arrived on store shelves in January 1983, and it came with a distinction no other game in the franchise could claim: it was the first Star Wars video game to feature lightsabers. For anyone who had sat in a darkened…
- AGEOD's American Civil WarAGEOD's American Civil War: 1861-1865 - The Blue and the Gray puts you in command of a nation at war with itself. Not as a single general on a single battlefield, but as both military commander and political head of state. The questions it…
- Quake (video game)Quake is a 1996 first-person shooter from id Software, and on the day it launched, only one member of the entire development team came into the office to upload the files. That person was John Romero, who had fought harder than anyone to…
- Final Fantasy VFinal Fantasy V launched in Japan in December 1992, and within a single day it sold roughly 900,000 cartridges. That opening figure was about 4.5 times the first-day numbers posted by Final Fantasy IV the year before. Japanese authorities…
- Street Fighter II: Champion EditionStreet 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…
- Silent Hill: Book of MemoriesSilent Hill: Book of Memories arrived in October 2012 with a premise that felt almost heretical to fans of one of gaming's most atmospheric horror franchises. A book shows up on your birthday. It contains your entire life story. You start…
- Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom 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…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: InfiniteMarvel 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…
- Super Gem Fighter Mini MixSuper Gem Fighter Mini Mix arrived in arcades in 1997 with a simple, disarming premise: what if Capcom's most beloved fighters were shrunk down to chibi proportions and sent on ridiculous personal errands? Ryu is looking for worthy…
- Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VIIDirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII arrived in 2006 as something nobody expected from Square Enix: a third-person shooter set inside one of gaming's most beloved fantasy universes. Vincent Valentine, a brooding gunslinger who had spent…
- Street Fighter AlphaStreet 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.…
- Super Street Fighter IVSuper Street Fighter IV arrived in April 2010 carrying a lower price tag than a standard retail release, which was itself a statement about what kind of product Capcom was selling. The update to Street Fighter IV had grown too large to…
- Call of Juarez: Bound in BloodCall of Juarez: Bound in Blood opens in August 1864, with two Confederate sergeants choosing family over duty in the final months of the Civil War. Ray and Thomas McCall abandon their post near the Chattahoochee River, defying Colonel…