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Fighting game

A genre of combat between characters using special moves and combos.

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Fighting game

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Fighting games are a type of action game where two or more on-screen characters fight each other, typically featuring special moves triggered by rapid button presses and joystick movements.[1] Beat 'em ups, where one or more player characters battle many computer-controlled foes, are a closely related genre to fighting games.[2] Boxing, MMA, and wrestling games are typically categorized as sports games rather than fighting games, as they aim for realistic combat models.[3]

Quick Facts

First game
Heavyweight Champ (1976)
Genre origin
Karate Champ (1984)
Key title
Street Fighter II (1991)
Related genre
Beat 'em up
Common view
Side view, 2D or 3D graphics

Facts from the source article.

Making and release

In 1987, Capcom's Street Fighter introduced special attacks.[4] Heavyweight Champ (1976) is recognized as the initial video game to include fist fighting, while Karate Champ (1984) is credited with creating the one-on-one fighting game format in arcades.[2] The Way of the Exploding Fist (1985) helped increase the genre's popularity on home computers.[4] During the early to mid-1990s, fighting games became the leading genre in video gaming, especially within arcades.[4]

Yoshiki Okamoto's group created what was then the genre's most precise routine for scanning joystick and button inputs.[5] This innovation enabled players to consistently perform multi-button special moves, which earlier had often depended on chance.[5]

What the cited sources add

The 1UP article "The Essential 50: 32. Street Fighter II" discusses the integral feature of "special attacks" that employ combinations of directional inputs and button presses.[6] According to the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008, some fighting games let players customize their character's look and move set, a feature called "create–a–fighter".[7][8] Countering, which involves predicting an opponent's actions and then attacking, is a standard gameplay element in fighting games.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Fighting game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Next Generation 1996 Lexicon A to Z: Fighting Game", Imagine Media, March 1996, p. 33; Rollings, "Fundamentals of Game Design", Prentice Hall, 2006; Ashcraft, Brian, "Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers", Kodansha International, 2008, p. 90; Spencer, Spanner, "The Tao of Beat-'em-ups", Eurogamer, February 6, 2008 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Fighting game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Heavyweight Champ", Ultimate History of Video games (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Fighting game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Treit, Ryan, "Novice Guides: Fighting", Xbox.com; Staff, "E3 Feature: Fighting Games Focus", Edge Online, May 3, 2006; Rollings, "Fundamentals of Game Design", Prentice Hall, 2006; Bramwell, Tom, "Fighting in the Backyard", Eurogamer, February 13, 2003; Walters, Stefan, "Let's play: Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing", BBC Sport, April 26, 2004 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Fighting game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Os 30 melhores jogos de luta de todos os tempos!", Liga dos Games, 2021-02-25 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Fighting game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The History of Street Fighter", GameSpot; "The Essential 50 Part 32: Street Fighter II", 1Up.com; IGN staff, "The Top 100 Games of All Time!", IGN.com, 2007; "20 Things You Didn't Know About Street Fighter II", 1UP.com, March 30, 2011; Jay Carter, "Insert Coin Here: Getting a Fighting Chance", July 1993; "Top 10 Biggest Grossing Arcade Games", US Gamer; "The History of Street Fighter", GameSpot; "History of Sega Fighting Games", GameSpot (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Fighting game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Essential 50: 32. Street Fighter II", 1UP; Towell, Justin, "The Best Special Attacks Ever", GamesRadar (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Fighting game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008", Guinness, March 11, 2008, p. 84 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Open Library record, ISBN 9781904994213 ("Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Fighting game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Treit, Ryan, "Novice Guides: Fighting", Xbox.com; "The Essential 50: 32. Street Fighter II", 1UP; Ekberg, Brian, "TGS '07: K-1 World Grand Prix Hands-On", GameSpot, September 22, 2007; Rollings, "Fundamentals of Game Design", Prentice Hall, 2006 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Fighting game (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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