Arcade Video game published 33 years ago:

Fighter's History (c) 1993 Data East Corporation.

Fighter's History is the first attempt of Data East to enter in competition with Capcom and its omnipresent Street Fighter II. Because the many similarities shared by the game with the Capcom masterpiece (like the character select screen, the vs and winner/loser screens, the controls and the design and moves of some characters), Fighter's History was at least simply stamped by most of the players like another SFII clone, and in this way remained ignored and obscured to the mass audience.

Although time after, the many beat'em up fans learnt to appreciate this maybe too underestimated fighting game, especially for its combo system, quite simple to execute even for those players not so able with timing and button pressing, and for its fast gameplay: at this purpose most of the contribution was made by the updated version released in 1994, Fighter's History Dynamite (known as Karnov's Revenge in USA and Europe) that made the gameplay more polished. Despite this at least Fighter's History never reached that great success that maybe Data East still tried to achieve.

Players choose one of 9 international fighters and battle to be the best in the world. Every character has his ending sequence and his own stage. There are also two not-selectable bosses to challenge for reach the end, and the last one of them is real surprising!

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the Data East ARM6 (32-Bit) System Hardware.

Game ID: MBF

Main CPU: ARM (@ 7 Mhz), HuC6280 (@ 4.0275 Mhz) Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.58 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.627 Khz), OKI6295 (@ 15.255 Khz)

Player layout in our catalog: 2P sim.

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Open Play on this page to start Fighter's History (World ver 43-09, DE-0395-1 PCB). Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Fighter's History (World ver 43-09, DE-0395-1 PCB) is filed in our catalog as a 1993 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P sim.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Fighter.

Credit line lists Data East Corporation as developer.