Fighter Games

I define as a fighter or fighting game a game that in some way simulates martial arts in one-on-one battles. I've never been particularily interested in fighting games, and so I have only a few examples.

Karateka						84		Jordan Mechner
The Way of the Little Dragon						87
Budokan						89
Full Contact						91		Team17
Body Blows						93		Team17
The Ultimate Arena						94		T.R. Buz
Metal & Lace
Pretty Fighter	SNES
Tattoo Assassins	Coin-Op							never released
Strip Fighter II	Turbogfx-16					95
Capital Punishment						96
Fightin' Spirit
Aazohm Krypht

Arcade Machines

Beat-'em-ups

• Renegade (Taito, 1986)
• Wonder Momo (Namco, 1987)
• Vigilante (Irem, 1988)
• Kuri Kinton (Taito, 1988)
• Bad Dudes (Data East, 1988)
• Splatterhouse (Namco, 1988)
• Superman (Taito, 1989)
• Trio The Punch – Never Forget Me… (Data East, 1989)
• Final Fight (Capcom, 1989)
• Hachoo! (Jaleco, 1989)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Konami, 1989)
• Crime Fighters (Konami, 1989)
• Brute Force (Leland, 1991)
• Captain America and the Avengers (Data East, 1991)
• Ken-Go (Irem, 1991)
• Vendetta (Konami, 1991)
• Violent Storm (Konami, 1993)
• Armored Warriors (Capcom, 1994)
• Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (Banpresto, 1995)

Vs Fighting Games

• Onna Sansirou: Typhoon Gal (Taito, 1985)
• Street Fighter (Capcom, 1987)
• Street Smart (SNK, 1989)
• Street Fighter II (Capcom, 1991)
• Fatal Fury: The King of Fighters (SNK, 1991)
• Fatal Fury 2 (SNK, 1992)
• Blandia (Allumer, 1992)
• The Karate Tournament (Mitchell, 1992)
• Mortal Kombat (Midway, 1992)
• Mortal Kombat II (Midway, 1993)
• Fatal Fury Special (SNK, 1993)
• Power Instinct (Atlus, 1993)
• Power Instinct 2 (Atlus, 1994)
• Kaiser Knuckle (Taito, 1994)
• Dan-Ku-Ga (Taito, 1994)
• Gun Master (Metro, 1994)
• Karnov's Revenge (Data East, 1994)
• Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory (SNK, 1995)
• Mortal Kombat 3 (Midway, 1995)
• Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Midway, 1995)
• Real Bout Fatal Fury (SNK, 1995)
• Street Fighter: The Movie (Capcom, 1995)
• Street Fighter Zero (Capcom, 1995)
• Gogetsuji Legends (Atlus, 1995)
• Real Bout Special (SNK, 1996)
• SD Fighters (Semicom, 1996)
• Groove on Fight (Atlus, 1997)
• Daraku Tenshi: The Fallen Angels (Psikyo, 1998)
• Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers (SNK, 1998)
• Garou: Mark of the Wolves (SNK, 1999)

Fighter Makers

I do have a few links about the two game creation systems for this genre that I know about, though I have not tried any of them and cannot give you any details. As far as I know, there are really only these two, at least available in English. Fighter games are actually rather complicated, and they are at home more on consoles and coin-ops than on computers.

2D Fighter Maker 95

2D Fighter Maker 95 comes, like the RPG makers, from ASCII, and has been, like them, illegaly translated. It never stood well against M.U.G.E.N., but meanwhile there is a new version (2D Fighter Maker 2nd) that surpasses it in some aspects.

• Fighter Maker HQ
• Don Miguel's old page
• Jake's Fighter Maker Section

M.U.G.E.N.

M.U.G.E.N. is an engine for 2D fighting games. Rather weird license which basically does not allow you to distribute a playable game. You may only distribute the material (graphics, characters) you created, other people have to download M.U.G.E.N. to play the game. Since there are very, very few fighter makers, it has its fans.

• Stifu's Homepage has the download and some tutorials. Good place to start now that the elecbyte site is gone.
• MUGEN & Artwork
• Riot of the Blood Rehabilitation Center
• NeoGouki's Mugen Creations
• Epsilon's Hentai Page

It was originally written for DOS, has now been ported to Linux, and a Windows version is in development, or was, for the homepage (elecbyte.com) has been down now for quite a while.