Curated category
Video games set in Japan
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000Capcom released the original game in 2000 for arcades using Sega NAOMI hardware. This specific machine powered the initial arcade experience before a port…
- Street Fighter Alpha 2In February 1996, Capcom unveiled Street Fighter Zero 2 at the AOU show in Tokyo. The arcade cabinet introduced a new system called Custom Combo that…
- Ultra Street Fighter IIOn the 26th of May 2017, Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers launched on the Nintendo Switch. This release marked a specific moment in video game…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Street Fighter EX2Street Fighter EX2 emerged from a partnership between Capcom and Arika in 1998. The game debuted as a coin-operated arcade machine built on Sony ZN-2…
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)Capcom released X-Men: Children of the Atom on CP System II arcade hardware in December 1994. The game arrived in Japan first, followed by North America and…
- Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 arrived in arcades on NAOMI hardware during 2001. Sega handled the North American arcade release for this…
- Street Fighter AlphaProduction for Street Fighter Alpha began in October 1994 following the release of Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors. Capcom gave its development team only…
- Street FighterIn August 1987, an arcade cabinet bearing the name Street Fighter opened its doors to players in Japan. Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto designed this…
- Street Fighter IIIOn the 27th of March 1996, Capcom announced that Street Fighter III was in development during a meeting in Tokyo. Production at Capcom on the first game in…
- Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike hit arcade floors in May of 1999. It ran on Capcom's CP System III hardware, a machine built to handle the game's complex…
- Snatcher (video game)Hideo Kojima stood in a Konami office in 1987, staring at a blank document. He wanted to make a game that felt like a movie.
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two WorldsRyota Niitsuma stood before the development team in 2010 and declared that the complex four-button system of previous games would be gone.
- Street Fighter X TekkenAt the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono stood on stage teasing a new project.
- Super Street Fighter IICapcom released Super Street Fighter II in 1993 on a new machine called the CP System II. This hardware replaced the older CP System used for previous…
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3On the 20th of July 2011, Capcom announced an updated version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds at San Diego Comic-Con.
- Street Fighter IICapcom began work on Street Fighter II in 1989, following the commercial success of Final Fight. Yoshiki Okamoto led a team of approximately 35 to 40 people…
- Silent Hill fThe year is 1960. A high school student named Hinako Shimizu stands in the center of a rural Japanese town called Ebisugaoka.