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The best fighting games

Fighting games involve hand-to-hand combat against a single opponent for the whole duration of a match. A distinctive trait of fighting games are the special attacks, i.e. combinations of graphically striking moves which enhance the intensity of the fight. Some of the soundest fighting games of all times are Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat.

Most popular fighting games

Ultra Mortal Kombat Vendetta
actionWindows XP/98/95
Street Fighter 2
actionDOS
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actionDOS

Fighting games

  • street-fighter-2-6
    DOS19924.3/5 Capcom

    Street Fighter 2 is one of the most popular fighting game ever released in the 90s. Street Fighter 2 was designed by Akira Nishitani and Akira Yasuda, developed and published by Capcom in 1991 for the arcades and then converted for many platforms from Spectrum ZX to DOS (in 1992).

  • super-street-fighter-2-05
    DOS19964.3/5 Capcom
  • mortalkombat1-3
    DOS1993protected4.3/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

    Mortal Kombat is one of the most popular 1 on 1 fighting games. No wonder it spawned many sequels. You can play as one of the seven digitized characters and must fight everyone else to the top. One of the distinctive features of Mortal Kombat is the fatality: a special move to finish off the adversary.

  • toshinden-07
    DOS19964.3/5 Tamsoft Corporation
  • pray-for-death-06
    DOS1996protected4.2/5 Light Shock Software
  • death-sword-02
    DOS19884.2/5 Palace Software

    Death Sword (also known as Barbarian in Europe), is a fighting game developed by Palace Software, set in a fantasy world full of huge sword-wielding barbarians. Compared to modern brawlers, Death Sword gameplay may seem slow, but at the time it was considered adequate. Instead of rushing into multiple chain combos, the slow pace allow the players t...

  • body-blows-01
    DOS19934.2/5 Team 17
  • onemustfall2097-2
    DOS1994freeware4.2/5 Diversions Entertainment
  • budokan-04
    DOS19894.1/5 Electronic Arts
  • mortalkombat3-01
    DOS1995protected4.1/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

    Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting action game developed by Midway Manufacturing Company and released by GT Interactive Software in 1995 for DOS and Windows as well as for many other platforms. Mortal Kombat 3 is the third chapter of the acclaimed Mortal Kombat series that spawned many sequels, a few TV series and even movies (with various degree of suc...

  • mortalkombat2-4
    DOS1994protected4/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
  • way-exploding-fist-03
    Windows2008freewareremake4/5
  • time-slaughter-03
    DOS1996freeware4/5 Bloodlust Software
  • primal-rage-03
    DOS19954/5 Atari
  • ultimate-body-blows-08
    DOS1994protected3.9/5 Team 17
  • xenophage-03
    DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Argo Games
  • brutalpaws-1
    DOS19953.9/5 GameTek
  • yie-ar-kung-fu-2-03
  • yie-ar-kung-fu-04
    DOS19853.9/5 Konami
  • metallace-1
    DOS1993NSFW3.8/5 MegaTech Software
  • world-karate-championship-03
    DOS19863.8/5 System 3
  • amazing-spiderman-captain-america-02
  • savage-warriors-04
    DOS19953.8/5 Kalisto Entertainment
  • xmen-children-atom-02
    DOS19973.8/5 Capcom

    X-Men: Children of the Atom is an abandoned fighting action game developed by Capcom and released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1997 for DOS and it's a conversion from the arcade version. X-Men: Children of the Atom was also published for consoles: Sega Saturn and PlayStation. As the title suggests, it's based on the Marvel comics characters known as...

  • pit-fighter-03
    DOS19913.8/5 Atari
  • ultra-mortal-kombat-03
    Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.8/5
  • street-fighter-1
    DOS19883.7/5 Capcom
  • sango-fighter-1-03
    Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993freeware3.6/5 Panda Entertainment Technology Co.
  • dangerous-streets-04
    DOS19943.5/5
  • noexit-02
    DOS19903.4/5 Coktel Vision