Fighting Games

Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64 is the legendary fighting game that revolutionized the genre and launched one of gaming's most iconic franchises. Developed by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory, this 3D arena fighter brings together Nintendo's most beloved characters—Mario, Link, Donkey Kong, Pikachu,...

Mortal Kombat Trilogy on the Nintendo 64 is the ultimate home version of the legendary fighting game franchise, bringing the complete arcade experience to your living room. This definitive entry combines characters and content from the original three Mortal Kombat games into one massive,...

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero on Nintendo 64 is a unique spin-off that shifts the legendary fighting franchise into action-adventure territory, following the icy warrior's origin story. Developed by Midway, this N64 exclusive takes players through a supernatural journey as Sub-Zero, blending the MK universe's...

Street Fighter Alpha 3 came to the Game Boy Advance in 2002, converted by Crawfish Interactive and published by Capcom. It is the third game in the Alpha series and the largest, fielding 31 fighters, more than any Alpha before it. The roster brings...

Medabots AX: Metabee Ver. is a two dimensional fighting game set in the Medabots world, developed and published by Natsume for the Game Boy Advance in 2002. It is based on Medarot G and, unusually, it was released only in North America, so it...

Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge is a 2D beat 'em up released for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, developed by the Italian studio Na.p.s. Team and published by Destination Software. It continues the story of Gekido, with series hero Tetsuo returning to his sensei's...

Double Dragon Advance is Million's Game Boy Advance take on one of the most imitated games the arcades ever produced, published by Atlus in 2003. A nuclear war has left the world in ruins, gangs have claimed the wreckage, and twin brothers Billy and...

Ultimate Mortal Kombat brought one of the most beloved versions of the series to the Nintendo DS in 2007. Developed by Other Ocean Interactive and published by Midway Home Entertainment, Ultimate Mortal Kombat packs the classic Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 together with Puzzle Kombat,...

Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 is a fighting game for the Nintendo DS, developed by Arc System Works and published by Atari in 2005. It follows the Game Boy Advance game Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors and is based on Akira Toriyama's Dragon...

Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Toitsusen is a versus fighting game for the Sega Genesis, released in 1994, developed by Treasure and published by Sega Enterprises. Built on the Yu Yu Hakusho anime, it puts eleven characters on the roster: Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Genkai,...

WWF Royal Rumble is a wrestling game developed by Sculptured Software and published by Acclaim Entertainment for the Sega Genesis in 1993. It hands you one of twelve World Wrestling Federation stars for a no holds barred brawl: Bret Hart, Razor Ramon, Randy Savage,...

Wrestle War is a wrestling game developed by SIMS and published by Sega Enterprises for the Mega Drive in 1991. You play Bruce Blade, a rookie professional fighting his way through a series of bouts toward the championship of the Sega Wrestling Alliance, a...

WWF Raw is a wrestling game developed by Sculptured Software and published by Acclaim Entertainment for the Sega Genesis in 1994, built around the World Wrestling Federation roster of the day. Up to twelve superstars appear, among them Bret Hart, Bam Bam Bigelow, Diesel,...

WeaponLord is a barbarian themed fighting game developed by Visual Concepts Entertainment and published by Namco Hometek for the Sega Genesis in 1995. Seven warriors, each armed with a weapon set of their own, clash across a brutal fantasy world on the way to...

Virtua Fighter 2 arrived on the Sega Genesis in 1996, developed by Data East and published by Sega of America, bringing the most talked about fighting game of the arcades home to 16 bit hardware. Instead of chasing polygons, this version rebuilds the arcade...

Ultraman for the Sega Genesis was developed by BEC and published by MA-BA in 1993, and it draws directly on the television show that began in 1967, following the story of its source material closely. You take the role of Ultraman himself and face...

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 arrived for the Sega Genesis in 1996, developed by Avalanche Software and published by Williams Entertainment. It gathers the best of the Mortal Kombat games onto a single cartridge, and it landed late in the console's life, when few fighting...

Two Crude Dudes is a side scrolling beat 'em up for the Sega Genesis, developed by Opera House and published by Data East in 1992, following the company's arcade brawler. After a nuclear explosion, New York needs rebuilding, and the work has barely started...

Thunder Pro Wrestling Retsuden is Human Entertainment's 1992 wrestling game and a spin off of the company's popular Fire Pro Wrestling series. It is the only title in that family to appear on Sega's 16 bit console, which gives it a particular place in...

The Punisher is a beat 'em up published for the Sega Genesis by Capcom in 1995, in a home version developed by Sculptured Software. Frank Castle lost his family when they stumbled onto a Mob hit, and he refused to die with them: as...

The Death and Return of Superman is a beat 'em up for the Sega Genesis, developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Sunsoft in 1995, drawn directly from the DC comic series that had everyone talking. You start as Superman in a hard hitting...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters is a fighting game that Konami developed and published for the Sega Genesis in 1993, when one on one fighters ruled the arcades and every console wanted a flagship of its own. Konami's answer put the Turtles in...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist is a Genesis brawler developed and published by Konami in 1992. Shredder has gotten hold of the powerful Hyperstone and is using it to shrink New York City, which leaves the fearless foursome to take it back...

Super Street Fighter II brought Capcom's defining fighting game to the Sega Genesis in 1994, and it arrived with a promise right there in its subtitle: new challengers. For two years the twelve most gifted fighters in the world had reigned over the World...

Streets of Rage 3 closed out the trilogy on the Sega Genesis in 1994, developed by Sega AM7 and published by Sega of America. Mr. X and the Syndicate return with their largest scheme yet: swapping the city's police chief for a robot double...

Street Smart is a one on one fighting game that arrived on the Sega Genesis in 1991, developed and published by Treco. It takes bare knuckle street brawling and strips it down to the basics: no rings, no trophies, just two fighters and whatever...

Streets of Rage is Sega's 1991 beat 'em up for the Genesis, developed by Sega Enterprises and published in North America by Sega of America. The city has fallen to a crime syndicate, the authorities will not act, and three former police officers, Axel...

Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition is Capcom's own conversion of its arcade phenomenon, released for the Sega Genesis in 1993. Twelve of the toughest fighters ever to prowl the streets came from the corners of the globe, and here every one of them...

Splatterhouse 2 is Namco's horror beat 'em up for the Sega Genesis, developed by Now Production and published by Namco in 1992. Rick's girlfriend Jennifer is trapped in a living nightmare, and the only way to reach her is to put the terror mask...

Splatterhouse 3 brings Namco's horror trilogy to a close, developed by Now Production and released for the Sega Genesis in 1993. Time has passed since the escape in Splatterhouse 2, and Rick is slowly regaining his sanity, though the nightmares still find him at...

Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage is a beat 'em up for the Sega Genesis, developed by Software Creations and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1994. It follows the comic crossover of the same name: Carnage is on a deadly rampage that is tearing New...

Slaughter Sport is a fighting game for the Sega Genesis, brought to the console in 1990 by Activision and Sanritsu. It sends you into the Blood Pit, an arena where the challengers on the other side of the ring represent death and dismemberment and...

Samurai Shodown is a weapon based fighting game, brought to the Sega Genesis in 1994 by System Vision and published by Takara. It follows the arcade game that gave the fighting genre a very different character, trading fists for steel. The setting is early...

Primal Rage is a one on one fighting game developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Time Warner Interactive for the Sega Genesis in 1995, bringing the arcade hit home. Instead of martial artists, Primal Rage pits seven enormous prehistoric beasts against each other...

Pit-Fighter was the arcade brawler that put digitised images of real fighters on screen, and this Genesis version, developed by Sterling Silver Software and published by Tengen in 1991, brings that spectacle home. Every scene and every movement was created from digitally processed graphics...

Mystical Fighter is a beat 'em up developed by Kid and published by Taito for the Sega Genesis in 1991. You begin at the Gate of Time, step through, and land in the Shogun Dynasty, in a place called The Underworld, where the Mystical...

Mortal Kombat 3 reached the Sega Genesis in 1995, developed by Sculptured Software and published by Williams Entertainment, with the series at its most ambitious. It is the last traditional one on one Mortal Kombat built on motion captured digitized graphics, which gives the...

Mortal Kombat II is the Sega Genesis conversion of the arcade fighter that defined a generation of playground arguments, developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1994. The story picks up after Liu Kang's victory in the first tournament: the sorcerer...

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for the Sega Genesis is a one on one competitive fighting game developed by Nova and published by Sega of America in 1994, arriving at the height of the show's popularity. Rather than turning the series into a platformer, it...

Mortal Kombat came to the Sega Genesis in 1993, converted by Probe Software and published by Acclaim Entertainment from the arcade game that had taken over the country. The pitch is still irresistible: digitized fighters, a tournament with far more than a trophy at...

Mazin Saga: Mutant Fighter arrived in 1993, developed by Almanic and published by Vic Tokai, and it brings a giant of Japanese comics to the Sega Genesis in an unusual shape. Nuclear and biochemical warfare has left Earth's ecosystem spinning out of control, the...

Last Action Hero is an action game for the Sega Genesis based on the 1993 Arnold Schwarzenegger film of the same name, developed by B.I.T.S. and published by Sony Imagesoft in 1993. You take the part of movie hero Jack Slater, teamed up with...

Last Battle is a side scrolling brawler developed by Sega Enterprises and published by Sega of America in 1989, making it one of the earliest games available for the Genesis in the West. You play Aarzak, a renegade with a dream of freeing his...

King of the Monsters 2 arrived on the Sega Genesis in 1994, developed by Betop and published by Takara, and it is a noticeably different beast from the Neo Geo game that shares its name. The arcade version sent one of three giant monsters...

King of the Monsters reached the Sega Genesis in 1993, converted by SPS and published by Sega Enterprises from the SNK arcade game. It is a giant monster fighting game: you choose one of four creatures and wreck a city while trying to flatten...

Justice League: Task Force brought DC's best known super team to the Sega Genesis in 1995, developed by Sunsoft and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is a one on one fighting game with a roster drawn straight from the comics: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman,...

Ka Ge Ki: Fists of Steel came to the Sega Genesis in 1991, developed by Hot B and published by Sage's Creation. It is a brawler built around underground fighting matches, in the spirit of Pit Fighter, and your job is to take down...

Growl is Taito's 1991 brawler, developed and published by Taito for the Sega Genesis after its run in the arcades. A mysterious poaching and smuggling syndicate operating under the cover name Rendow Animal Protection Organization, or RAPO, has been stripping the world of its...

Golden Axe III arrived in 1993, developed by Sega CS1 and published by Sega Enterprises, and it closes out the Genesis trilogy. Damud Hellbringer, the Prince of Darkness, has taken away the Golden Axe and laid an evil curse over all the warriors. One...

Golden Axe is Sega's 1989 Genesis conversion of its arcade hit, developed by Team Shinobi and published by Sega of America. In Turtle Village the children are fleeing for their lives from invaders who are brutal, ugly and twelve feet tall, with huge arms...