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Final Fight is a series of beat 'em up video games by Japanese publisher Capcom, which began with the arcade release of Final Fight in 1989. Set in the fictional Metro City, within the Street Fighter universe, the games focus on a group of heroic vigilantes who fight against the control and various threats of criminal gangs, primarily the Mad Gear Gang.
Boxing games go back further than any other kind of fighting game, starting with Sega's Heavyweight Champ in 1976, the game often called the first video game to feature hand-to-hand fighting. Fighters wear boxing gloves and fight in rings , and fighters can range from actual professional boxers to aliens to Michael Jackson .
Final Fight [a] is a 1989 beat 'em up game developed and published by Capcom for arcades.It is the seventh title released for the CP System hardware. Set in the fictional Metro City, the player controls one of three street fighters: former pro wrestler and city mayor Mike Haggar, expert brawler Cody Travers, and modern-day ninja Guy.
The game is celebrated for its extensive character selection, fluid animation, and engaging fighting mechanics. In 2003, the game was ported to the Dreamcast in Japan, followed by global ports to PlayStation 2 in 2004 and Xbox in 2005, both of which were released in North America in a two-in-one bundle with the following game in the series, The ...
Final Fight Revenge was released for the arcades in July 1999 and ran on the Sega ST-V arcade hardware. It was the first Final Fight game released for the arcades since the original Final Fight. A home version was released for the Sega Saturn on March 30, 2000, [3] making it the last Capcom game officially released for the platform. The Sega ...
Created by Akira "Akiman" Yasuda, Haggar's creation was based around the need of a "big dude" for players to be able to select in Final Fight.Series producer Akira Nishitani recalled Yasida was a big fan of Les Misérables during the first game's development, with Yasuda noting that Haggar was influenced by the musical's protagonist Jean Valjean, who becomes a mayor in the latter half of the ...
The game brings back all eighteen of the characters that appeared in Street Fighter Alpha 2.As with the previous Alpha titles, several characters were added to the game: Cammy, who was previously featured in the console-exclusive Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, E. Honda, Blanka, Balrog (who is an unlockable character), and Vega.
Capcom Fighting Collection is a compilation of arcade versions of ten fighting games originally developed and published by Capcom. [1] [2] [3] Most prominently, all five arcade entries in the Darkstalkers franchise are included, marking the first time the full series was made available outside Japan.