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Video games developed in Japan

Raul Julia died before the Street Fighter movie game was done, so his stunt double played Bison in Street Fighter: The Movie. Most of this collection is Japanese games built around Capcom's fighters, plus a few Square and Konami role-playing series. Street Fighter II: Champion Edition made the four final bosses playable in 1992. Super Street Fighter II Turbo hid Akuma behind a code, and tournaments banned him. Capcom Fighting Evolution was salvaged from a cancelled 3D fighter. Final Fantasy III's developers followed a programmer to Sacramento after his work visa ran out.

  • Metal Gear Solid (video game)1998 video game
  • 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.
  • Final Fantasy Legend IIA smashed goddess statue scatters 77 magical stones across linked worlds in Final Fantasy Legend II.
  • Street Fighter CollectionDespite skeptical reviews, Street Fighter Collection won Fighting Game of the Year from Electronic Gaming Monthly.
  • Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution was built from a cancelled 3D fighting game. It salvaged Capcom Fighting All-Stars.
  • 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.
  • Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy OriginIn Stranger of Paradise, Jack's party are agents sent repeatedly from another world.
  • Silent Hill: The ArcadeSilent Hill: The Arcade turns the horror series into a light-gun shooter. Players blast through the fog on a fixed rail.
  • Suikoden TacticsSuikoden Tactics is both a prequel and a sequel to Suikoden IV. The 2005 PlayStation 2 game uses two time periods.
  • Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade EditionIn April 2012, Capcom said Arcade Edition would be the last Street Fighter IV. Ultra Street Fighter IV arrived in 2014.
  • Final Fantasy XII: Revenant WingsFinal Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings began with no Final Fantasy XII link. Vaan and Penelo were added later.
  • SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumRivals SNK and Capcom teamed up partly to help a struggling handheld, the Neo Geo Pocket Color.
  • Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionFinal Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition squeezed a console epic onto a touchscreen. Only the first of ten chapters is free.
  • Mitsumete KnightMitsumete Knight, a 1998 PlayStation game, leaves a church bomb threat unexplained. Audio dramas later explained it.
  • 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.
  • Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred HeroesEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes passed $500,000 on Kickstarter in just three to four hours.
  • 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…
  • Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake EaterMetal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater sends a soldier into the Soviet jungle in 1964, using a game that first appeared in 2004. It is a 2025 stealth action-adventure from Konami, rebuilt from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the first…
  • 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.
  • Gensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no TokiGensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki sends three heroes back a hundred years. A monster wakes every century.
  • Metal Gear Solid: The Twin SnakesThe Twin Snakes began with a chance meeting in a Nintendo cafeteria.
  • 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.
  • Final Fantasy IV (2007 video game)Three quarters of Final Fantasy IV's original script never reached players in 1991.
  • 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.
  • Street Fighter Alpha AnthologyCompleting every game in Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is the only way to reach Hyper Street Fighter Alpha.
  • 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.
  • Suikoden IVIn Suikoden IV, a cursed rune jumps to the nearest person when its bearer dies. It slowly drains its bearer's life.
  • Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterMarvel kept a comedian's fighter out of Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter abroad for over two decades.
  • Capcom Classics CollectionCapcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 chose the Breakout-style Block Block over Super Street Fighter II.
  • Silent Hill 3In Silent Hill 3, a roller coaster kills 17-year-old Heather Mason, who then wakes in a mall.
  • Fighting LayerFighting Layer let fighters step sideways, which Street Fighter EX never allowed.
  • Final Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIII's heroes learn their mission is to destroy their own world.
  • Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactStreet Fighter III: 2nd Impact was the only Capcom CPS3 game with a widescreen feature.
  • Silent HillsA free horror demo from a studio that did not exist secretly teased Silent Hills.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomIn The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, fusing a rocket to a shield is enough to send Link soaring through the air. That one trick says a great deal about this 2023 action-adventure game for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo EPD built it…
  • 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.
  • Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years was a role-playing game released to mobile phones in monthly installments.
  • Final Fantasy Mystic QuestIn Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, players see enemies coming and choose whether to fight.
  • 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.
  • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VIICrisis Core: Final Fantasy VII explains a death that fans of the 1997 game already knew.

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