Curated playlist
Video games set in the United States
- 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…
- 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…
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes2004 video game
- 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…
- 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.…
- Street FighterStreet 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…
- Silent Hill 4: The RoomSilent Hill 4: The Room begins with a man who cannot leave his own home. Henry Townshend has been locked inside his apartment for five days, cut off from the outside world, haunted by recurring nightmares. Then a hole opens in his bathroom…
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two WorldsMarvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds arrived in February 2011 carrying a weight of nearly a decade of silence. The series had gone dark after legal disputes froze Capcom's license to use Marvel characters, leaving fans with nothing new…
- Street Fighter X TekkenStreet 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 IISuper 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 3Ultimate 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 IIStreet 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…
- Final Fight (video game)Final 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…