Curated playlist
Video games set in Hong Kong
- 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.
- 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…
- 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 III: 2nd ImpactStreet Fighter III: 2nd Impact was the only Capcom CPS3 game with a widescreen feature.
- Street FighterStreet Fighter player Daigo Umehara parried 15 hits in a row with one pixel of health left in 2004.
- 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.
- Call of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Black Ops sold more than 5.6 million copies within 24 hours of going on sale in November 2010. That total beat the record set by Modern Warfare 2 by roughly 2.3 million copies. Treyarch built the game and Activision published…
- Fatal FuryIn fan surveys, Fatal Fury's villain Geese Howard beat its hero Terry Bogard. SNK was surprised by his popularity.
- Super Street Fighter IISuper Street Fighter II let eight players compete in one tournament across four linked arcade cabinets.
- Tekken 3Tekken 3, a fighting game from Namco, sold more than one million copies in Japan on the day it reached the PlayStation. Few games begin their life at home with a number like that. Behind it lies a story that starts in the arcade, runs…
- Sleeping Dogs (video game)Sleeping Dogs, a 2012 action game set in contemporary Hong Kong, almost never reached a single player. On the 9th of February 2011, the publisher Activision announced that it was cancelling the project, which at that point carried the…
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six SiegeTom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is a Ubisoft shooter with no story campaign, and it still passed 70 million registered players by December 2020. Ubisoft Montreal built it around a single idea: two teams fighting over one building at a time.…