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General: First of all, Fighter's History is the most blatant "knock-off" of Street Fighter 2 ever made. Players choose "one of eight international fighters" and "compete to be the best in the world." Sound familiar??? From the life bar colors, to the way moves are done, to the blocking hit effects, to the backgrounds, to the way characters animate, down to the very specific gameplay mechanics; Fighter's History is trying to be Street Fighter II with different characters. Capcom thought so too, and they actually tried to sue Data East but unfortunately lost the case in the end... Those bastards.
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The only thing that's different about Fighter's History, when compared to Street Fighter 2, is that the character designs pretty much suck, and the game isn't the least bit fun. The overall graphics aren't completely horrible for 1993 graphics, but this game offered nothing new to the fighting game world. The gameplay is sickeningly similar to SF2 as well; the speed, the jumping, the "pushing back" when you attack a blocking opponent, etc. It's as if Data East took Capcom's Street Fighter 2 engine apart, and hacked it (90's style), to create this "peice of crap" Data East called a game. Fighter's History is indeed History... And this is the type of History that should be forgotton.
Manufacturer: Data
East
Platforms: Arcade,
Super Nintendo
Release: 1993,
1994 (SNES)
Characters:
Ray McDougal, Liu Feilin, Ryoko,
Matlock Jade, Samchay Tomyamgun, Lee Diendou, Makoto
Mizoguchi, Jean Pierre, Marstorius, Clown, Karnov
Related Games:
Fighters
History Dynamite,
King of Fighters
Maximum Impact: Regulation A
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Closing Comment:
Quite honestly, this game doesn't even deserve to be featured on
TFG. Pretty much the only reason this blasphemy is even here is because
Mizoguchi was featured in King of Fighters:
Maximum Impact Regulation A; and also to remind the world of the most
horrid Street Fighter 2 rip-off in history. And I suppose there needs to
be at least 1 game on TFG's game list to score a 1 out of 10... Good job
Fighter's History!!! As a little kid growing up playing Street Fighter
2, I knew this was a straight up ripoff back then, and I knew there was
no point in playing it because the series would never go anywhere. I was
a smart little kid wasn't I? ~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG