Pre-Street Fighter II Fighting Games

[Joseph Joestar]

May 26, 2014 18:18:49 GMT -5 derboo said:

Here's another game we've missed before: Bushido for old IBM PCs:



www.hardcoregaming101.net/fighters/fighters2.htm#bushido

Jeez I forgot all about that. It's been ages since I played it, I wonder how well I'd do now - all I remember was how difficult the controls were to deal with.

[jorpho]

Big surge in traffic today..?
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[drpepperfan]

I really like the implementation of a background from IK+ (i think) for the article. While the black blackness of the site is kind of a trademark at this point, it's actually refreshing to have a different bg for a change of pace. And it suits it really well.

[tbb]

Feb 26, 2014 21:05:18 GMT -5 derboo said:

Feb 25, 2014 12:59:39 GMT -5 anotheroldgamer said:

My local arcade later got a copy of the giant button version of Street Fighter, but I never got to play it because a pair of hulking steroid dudes came in and smashed the controls right out of the cabinet.

Haha, I bet it was like that in almost every arcade that cabinet was delivered to.

It wasn't broken in any of the arcades around me, not that it mattered because it just didn't play well. It was hard enough fighting another person, once you started fighting the computer, you were done for. I think I only ever saw one person get to the 2nd computer enemy. I doubt the giant buttons were the whole problem, but they certainly didn't help.

[phediuk]

The article is missing a really early fighting game: Dino Wars for the Tandy CoCo, from 1980.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ccgHq26Qc

As far as I can tell, it's the first fighting game for a home platform.