It wasn’t until 1984 that we met the true godfather of the fighting game: Japanese arcade hit Karate Champ, which pitted two fighters against each other in a traditional karate tournament. Big kicks and spine ripsFacebook Twitter Pinterest Street Fighter II, the most important fighting game ever made. Photograph: CapcomWith 1991 came the arrival of the most important fighting game ever made: Capcom’s Street Fighter II. Street Fighter V is dragging fighting game fanatics back into dwindling arcades, but also killing it online, where a new generation of fans are competing in global tournaments. Like Stallone at the end of Rocky II, the fighting game is hanging on in there.

Source: The Guardian June 01, 2019 10:52 UTC