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Capcom Fighting All-Stars

Capcom Fighting All-Stars: Code Holder was a 3D fighting game planned for the arcade and PlayStation 2 that was to be developed by Capcom.

Dead or Alive 5 Plus

Dead or Alive 5 Plus (stylized as Dead or Alive 5+ and abbreviated to DOA5+) is a fighting game in the Dead or Alive series, developed by Team Ninja in partnership with Sega AM2 and released by Tecmo Koei for the PlayStation Vita in March 2013.

Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover

Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover is a fighting game for the PlayStation Portable.

Fighting Is Magic

Fighting Is Magic is the former name of a fighting game that was initially cancelled due to a Cease and Desist letter by Hasbro, but has since been revived as an original Intellectual Property, being developed by the Mane6 development team and Lauren Faust.

Ganbare Neo Poke-Kun

He would begin simply, creating his own versions of Pong and Breakout, and would gradually move up to historical sims (a'la Nobunaga's Ambition), shoot 'em ups, and fighting games. The game used the Neo Geo Pocket Color's internal clock to control the speed at which Neo Poke-Kun created games, when he slept, when he went to work, etc.

Godzilla: Battle Legends

Godzilla: Battle Legends (Simply referred to as "Godzilla" in North America) is a fighting game based on the Godzilla film franchise, made for the Turbo Duo in 1993, developed by Alfa System and published in the United States by Hudson Soft.

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a fighting game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, DS, and PSP, which ties into the "Marvel Nemesis" comic book series.

Negative edge

Negative edge, the name for a concept in fighting game theory for games such as Street Fighter II, wherein a special move is made easier to execute by allowing the player to execute such a move by using a joystick command followed by the release of a previously depressed pushbutton.

One Must Fall

One Must Fall (OMF) is a fighting game series for the IBM PC compatible, programmed by Diversions Entertainment.

Optimus Primal

Optimus Primal appears as a playable character in the fighting games Transformers Battle Universe, a Net Jet game.

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a crossover fighting video game which was released on November 20, 2012 in North America, November 21, 2012 in Europe, November 22, 2012 in Australia, November 23, 2012 in the UK and January 31, 2013 in Japan.

Rag Doll Kung Fu

Rag Doll Kung Fu is a fighting computer game, created predominantly by artist Mark Healey, while working for Lionhead Studios, along with other Lionhead employees, such as David Smith and Alex Evans.

Shuma-Gorath

Shuma-Gorath appears as a playable character in the Capcom fighting game Marvel Super Heroes and sequels Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes.

Studio Gigante

Studio Gigante was a Chicago-based video game developer established in 2000 by John Tobias, Dave Michicich, and Joshua Tsui, several developers of Midway's popular Mortal Kombat fighting game series.

The Kristal

The game features a number of different classic game genres merged: fighting, space flight/combat, and (to a limited extent) LucasArts-style point-and-click adventuring.

Thea Realm Fighters

This fighting game by High Voltage Software was one of the Mortal Kombat rip offs developed in response to Mortal Kombat popularity.

Thrill Kill

Thrill Kill is a cancelled and unpublished 1998 fighting video game for the Sony PlayStation.

Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation

Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation is a wrestling game based on the anime and manga, Ultimate Muscle.


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Art of Fighting

It was the first fighting game by SNK to feature the character designs of former illustrator Shinkiro, who would go on to do the character designs for the later Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters games.

Chun-Li

She and Ryu are the only Street Fighter characters to appear in every Capcom crossover title, including the SNK vs. Capcom fighting game series by SNK and the tactical role-playing games Namco × Capcom and Project X Zone by Namco.

Crackerjack

Cracker Jack, a character in the Street Fighter EX fighting game series

Dan Paladin

Paladin designed the critically acclaimed remake of Alien Hominid and fighting game Castle Crashers, with his 2D style becoming signature for these games.

Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc.

Data East's largest objection in court was that their 1984 arcade game Karate Champ was the true originator of the competitive fighting game genre, which predated the original Street Fighter by three years.

Deadly Arts

G.A.S.P!! Fighters' NEXTream, a 1998 fighting game for the Nintendo 64, released in North America as Deadly Arts

Dynamite Düx

Bean also appeared in Sega AM2's Sega Saturn fighting game Fighters Megamix as a bonus unlockable character (along with Bark The Polarbear.) He is unlocked by completing the fourth arcade mode 'Muscle' and fought against in the final arcade mode 'Bonus'.

Ho-Sung Pak

In 1995, he and fellow MK actors Daniel Pesina, Katalin Zamiar, and Dr. Phillip Ahn, M.D. all appeared in a fighting game produced exclusively for the Atari Jaguar titled Thea Realm Fighters, but it was never released after Atari ceased production on the failed system later that year.

Kujibiki

Kujibiki Unbalance: Kaichō Onegai Smash Fight, a 2007 fighting game adapted from the anime's popularity.

Lars Alexandersson

Outside Tekken, he is also featured as a playable character in the fighting game, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 and in his alternate Tekken 6 costume designed by Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds

Marvel vs. Capcom 3's first and only international representation (due to the release of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3) as a main tournament fighting game at the renowned e-sports event, the Evo Championship Series, was in July 2011, held in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Masahiko Nakahira

He is best known for his numerous manga adaptations of the popular fighting game series Street Fighter.

Mazin Saga: Mutant Fighter

It is a beat em'up/versus fighting game based on the MazinSaga manga by Go Nagai, which was in turn a spin-off of Nagai's original Mazinger Z.

NStigate Games

Meanwhile in 2005, Nihilistic completed development on Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, a fighting game based on Marvel Comics' various superheroes.

OGPlanet

In 2007, the company launched the popular MMO fighting game Rumble Fighter, as well as Season 3 of Albatross18 and BB Tanks.

Space Battleship Yamato

Takashi Nishiyama, the creator of the video game Street Fighter, credited the Space Battleship Yamato series and a battleship's missile system "Hadouho" as the inspiration for the special move Hadouken from the fighting game.

Supercool Creative

Supercool Creative is currently responsible for the social media marketing for Street Fighter X Tekken, a AAA fighting game being released in March, 2012 by Capcom.

Tao Feng

Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus, a fighting game released for the Xbox console

Tatsunoko Fight

In addition to normal versus mode, players may choose a round-robin-style team battle mode involving multiple characters, as well as a single-player story mode that resembles an arcade fighting game.

Tekken 6

Play UK gave Tekken 6 a 94 stating it as "an intense, tactical and utterly brilliant fighting game, perfect for anyone with even a fleeting interest in the genre".

The King of Fighters

In addition to previous established fighting game stars Terry Bogard and Ryo Sakazaki, the game introduces a new hero: a young Japanese martial artist named Kyo Kusanagi, who serves as the lead character in the early KOF games.

Tusken Raiders

A Tusken Raider named Hoar appears as a playable character in the PlayStation fighting game Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi.