Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters

Developer: Konami   Publisher: Konami   Release:09/04/93   Genre: Fighting When Street Fighter 2 hit the SNES it opened the floodgates for not only arcade ports but also many an original home fighting game. Some of these were based off popular manga like...
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Power Moves

Power Moves

Developer: System Vision   Publisher: Kaneko    Release: 01/93   Genre: Action Ah yes, Power Moves. If you grew up in the 90’s chances are you saw the striking ad of a man getting punched and his face exploding in...
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Street Fighter II Turbo

Street Fighter II Turbo

Developer: Capcom    Publisher: Capcom    Release: 08/01/93   Genre: Action The announcement of Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis was a big blow to SNES owners in 1993. While Super Nintendo owners had enjoyed the original exclusive...
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Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat

Developer: Probe    Publisher: Acclaim    Release: 09/13/93   Genre: Fighting Street Fighter 2 is one of the most influential games of all time, not to mention the impact it had on the fighting game genre. Like Super Mario Bros. and Double...
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Flying Dragon – the Secret Scroll

Flying Dragon – the Secret Scroll

Developer: Culture Brain    Publisher: Culture Brain    Release: 08/89   Genre: Action Culture Brain is not the first name on my list of best NES publishers. But I will give them credit for coming up with some weirdly ambitious titles. The...
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Martial Champion

Martial Champion

Developer: Konami    Publisher: Konami    Release: 12/17/93   Genre: Fighting Konami established the fighting game genre with Yie Ar Kung-Fu alongside Karate Champ. Many of us older gamers loved it as it offered something different from what we were use...
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Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

Developer: Capcom    Publisher: NEC    Release: 06/12/93   Genre: Fighting Once Street Fighter II hit the SNES the floodgates were open. Arcade games previously thought impossible for home release were ported to the 16-bit consoles en masse. While the S...
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Golden Axe: the Duel

Golden Axe: the Duel

Developer: Sega AM1   Publisher: Sega    Release: 06/27/96   Genre: Fighting Once the Saturn was released the expectation was that we would receive 32-bit updates to all of Sega’s intellectual properties. Streets of Rage, Vectorman……Sonic. Oh how na...
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Fatal Fury 2

Fatal Fury 2

Developer: Takara    Publisher: Takara    Release: 04/94   Genre: Fighting As a fan of Neo Geo games in the arcade I looked forward to the first SNES and Genesis ports. There was no way in hell I would ever get the...
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Battle Arena Toshinden

Battle Arena Toshinden

Developer: Takara    Publisher: SCEA    Release: 09/09/95    Genre: Fighting Hype. At one point in time or another most of us have fall victim to it. Nowhere is it more evident than at a new system launch. With new technology comes the...
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