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Fighting games are video games in which players fight each other or computer enemies with martial arts. Along with fixed shooters, they are traditionally at home in the arcades, and are considered separate from Sports games such as wrestling, boxing and "ultimate fighting" video games.
The genre is also often referred to as beat 'em up and contains two major sub-genres.
Screenshot Double Dragon (arcade) In this type, also called beat-em-ups, one or more players (most often two, but sometimes as many as six) each choose a unique character, and team up to punch, kick, throw and slash their way through a horde of computer-controlled enemies. The fighting happens in a series of side-scrolling stages, some with a powerful 'boss' enemy at the end. In the most common variation, players can move away and toward the screen as well as left and right, although earlier scrolling fighters such as Kung Fu were more likely to allow only one-dimensional movement plus jumping.
Typically these games are side-scrollers with players generally moving from left to right, but there have been some three-dimensional versions which allow relatively free movement throughout a level and the ability to face in all directions.
Two major milestones in this genre are Double Dragon and Final Fight. Some of the most popular games from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s followed suit. At its height, the side-scroller was one of the most popular kind of arcade game, but they have since fallen out of fashion.
While a few 3D scrolling fighters exist (notably Sega's Die Hard Arcade , Squaresoft'sSquare Co. or Squaresoft internationally is a Japanese video game company created in 1983 as part of a software development firm called Denyuusha. In 1985, Squaresoft began making games for the Nintendo Famicom (called the Nintendo Entertainment System in The Bouncer and Konami'sKonami Corporation is a leading video game developer and publisher. The company was founded in 1969 in Osaka, Japan by Kagemasa Kozuki. It is now headquartered in Tokyo. Over the years, Konami has created some of the biggest and most memorable video games remake of 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra's Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesCreated by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) debuted in the world of American comics, published by independent publisher Mirage Comics. The comic focused on the four anthropomorphic turtles, who, as one might i), they are much more a niche genre than the 2D iteration had been.
Screenshot Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II: The World Warrior ( 1991) was a highly popular and immensely successful arcade game created by the Japan-based company Capcom. It centers around two characters, Ryu and Ken (the two main characters from the original Street Fighter , fac (arcade) In this type of fighter two players (sometimes more, but quite infrequently) each choose a character, then fight against each other over several rounds, usually three. The winner of a round either knocks out his opponent, comes closest to knocking him out, or (in 3D fighters) sends him out of the ring.
In contrast to side-scrolling fighters, most versus fighters are competitive rather than cooperative. Some versus fighters offer players the chance to battle as teams (2v2 or 3v3 being most common) instead of one-on-one. In a few of these team versus games, players can opt to play on the same team, usually in a tag-team fashion.
One of the main attraction of this game type is the large number of characters each game has, all of whom usually have a distinct appearance and fighting style. Characters are usually unarmed or armed with melee weapons weapons ( swordA sword (from Old English sweord akin to Old High German swerd is a bladed weapon, consisting in its most fundamental design of a blade and a handle. The blade is normally of metal and often ground to at least one sharp edge and usually has a pointed tips, sticks, nunchaku, etc.).
Due to the fall in popularity of scrolling fighters, the term fighter, when applied to a game, usually refers to versus fighters.
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