Software:Fighter's History

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Fighter's History
Genre(s)Fighting
Developer(s)Data East
Publisher(s)Data East
First releaseFighter's History
March 1993
Latest releaseFighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!
February 17, 1995
Spin-offsGarou Densetsu vs. Fighter's History Dynamite

Lua error in Module:Lang/utilities at line 332: attempt to call field '_transl' (a nil value). is a series of fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original Fighter's History was first released for the arcades in 1993 and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Two different sequels were produced: Karnov's Revenge (aka Fighter's History Dynamite in Japan) for the Neo Geo in 1994, followed by Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!, released in Japan for the Super Famicom in 1995.

The main unique feature of the Fighter's History series is its "weak point system". By repeatedly hitting an opponent's weak point, the player can temporarily stun them once per round, leaving the opponent open for an attack. The location of an opponent's weak spot varies with each character and is usually represented by a specific article of clothing (e.g. a headband, a vest, a mask).

Games

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Fighter's History

Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". The original Fighter's History was released as an arcade game in March 1993. The game uses a six-button control configuration similar to Street Fighter II and its iterations, as well as an alternate version of the first Street Fighter, with three punch buttons and three kick buttons, each for different strength levels (light, medium, and heavy). There are a total of nine playable characters, as well as two non-playable boss characters at the end of the single-player tournament. The final boss and sponsor of the tournament is revealed to be Karnov, the protagonist of the Data East action game of the same name. In this installment hitting an opponent's weak point will not only stun the opponent, it will also cause the opponent to sustain greater damage when the weak point is repeatedly struck afterward. Fighter’s History was made available through Nintendo Switch Online in 2022.[1][2]

Karnov's Revenge

Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Karnov's Revenge, also titled Fighter's History Dynamite in Japan and in the USA arcade version, was released for the arcades March 17, 1994. Due to change of hardware to SNK's MVS platform, the control configuration was reduced from six attack buttons to just four (only light and heavy attacks are available this time). Likewise, the game was released for the Neo Geo home console, as well as the Neo Geo CD, on April 28.

A new gameplay feature is introduced in the form of "one-two attacks". When the player presses a heavy attack button while performing a light attack or blocking, the interval between light attacks is reduced, making combos easier to perform. All eleven fighters from the previous game return (including the bosses Clown and Karnov, who are now playable) and are joined by two new characters: Yungmie, a female taekwondo exponent from Korea, and Zazie, a karate practitioner from Kenya, for a total of 13 characters. Karnov is the only returning character who was given entirely new sprites. Most of the returning characters were given new special techniques (with a few exceptions), including hidden techniques which are not listed on the instruction card (the manual for the home version hints of their inclusion).

Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!

Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! ("Mizoguchi's Moment of Crisis!!") was released in Japan for the Super Famicom on February 17, 1995. Based on Karnov's Revenge, many changes were made to the game, including the addition of a new game mode where Mizoguchi is the protagonist. In addition to the story-based Mizoguchi Mode, there are also three new game modes (Practice, Tag Battle, and Survival) in addition to the traditional CPU Battle and 2-Player Versus Modes. There are nine playable characters in this installment, as five of the characters from the previous Fighter's History games were cut from the roster (Ray, Jean, Matlock, Samchay, and Marstorius). Chelnov, the main character from Data East's arcade game Atomic Runner Chelnov, appears in this game as the final boss.

Characters

  • Template:Country data AmericaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Ray McDougal (レイ・マクドガル, Rei Makudogaru)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – the lead character in the first two games. A detective from Los Angeles with a unique fighting style.
  • JapanLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Makoto Mizoguchi (溝口 誠, Mizoguchi Makoto)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a high school delinquent from Osaka who is in his late 20s after being held back repeatedly for many years. He is the most prominent character in the series, having appeared in several games outside the Fighter's History franchise, including SNK's KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A.
  • ChinaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Liu Feilin (劉 飛鈴, Ryu Feirin, Chinese Pinyin: Liú Fēilíng)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a top actress in the Chinese classical opera world. She is also a master of the Chinese murderer's fist, which appears to be Praying Mantis Kung Fu.
  • JapanLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Ryoko Kano (嘉納 亮子, Kanō Ryōko)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a Japanese high school girl who learned judō from her grandfather since the age of 3.
  • United KingdomLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Matlok Jade (マットロック・ジェイド, Mattorokku Jeido)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a punk rock guitarist from England who seeks a legendary guitar.
  • ThailandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Samchay Tomyamgun (サムチャイ・トムヤムクン, Samuchai Tomuyamukun)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a muay Thai fighter from Thailand who seeks to support his younger siblings in the absence of his parents.
  • ChinaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Lee Diendou (李 典徳, Rii Diendō, Chinese Pinyin: Lǐ Diǎndé)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a Chinese Bajiquan exponent who participates in the Great Grapple in order to seek the mysterious warrior who killed his father Gentoku (厳徳)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24"..
  • FranceLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Jean Pierre (ジャン・ピエール, Jan Piēru)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a French gymnast who has always achieved perfect scores until the day he scored a 9.98. Since then, he began picking martial arts in order to improve his grace and strength. He participates in the tournament in order to see the results of his training.
  • ItalyLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Marstorius (マーストリウス, Māsutoriusu)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a professional wrestler from Italy in his 40s who believes that wrestling is the strongest martial art. In the versus screen of Karnov's Revenge, his name is misspelt as Marstrius.
  • Clown (クラウン, Kuraun)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – the sub-boss in the first game. Like his name suggests, he is a clown from a traveling circus who fights with his quick agility as a circus performer. His special moves include a rolling attack and card throws. In Karnov's Revenge, he forms his own circus called "Clown's Circus" and participates in the second tournament to become stronger than Karnov, as well as to find an "attractive male fighter". In the Japanese version of the series, Clown is depicted as a homosexual who is attracted to younger men. While the English localization of the first two games removed all references of Clown's sexuality in the game, the manual for the Neo Geo home version still mentions his preferences for men.
  • RussiaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Karnov (カルノフ, Karunofu)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". (Карнов) – the main boss in the first two games, originally a character from a previous Data East game of the same name. The second son of a poor Russian farmer, his full name is Jinborov Karnovski. He earned his reputation as a brawling ruffian at a young age by picking fights at neighboring places. He was forced to become a servant of God in the past as punishment for his past behavior, but has since renounced the heavens in order to host his own martial arts tournament, where he is the undefeated champion. After losing in the first game, he hosts the second tournament in Karnov's Revenge in order to seek revenge for his defeat. In Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!, Karnov leaves the heavens from his retirement in order to defeat the people mocking him.
  • KenyaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Zazie Muhaba (ザジィ・ムハバ, Zajii Muhaba)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – one of the new characters introduced in Karnov's Revenge. A nature-loving practitioner of the Hokutō Shinkan Karate (北東真館空手)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". style from Kenya. He participates in the Great Grapple tournament in order to fund his self-made environmentalist organization and protect the African wildlife from poachers.
  • South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Liu Yungmie (柳 英美, Japanese: Ryū Yonmī, Korean: Ryu Yeongmi)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – the other new character introduced in Karnov's Revenge. A young female taekwondo practitioner from Korea whose parents were both top-class martial artists. She participates in the Great Grapple in order to investigate her parents' disappearance. When she defeats Karnov, she is told that her father committed suicide after losing to Karnov and that her mother disappeared afterward. In Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!, she participates in Chelnov's Great Grapple tournament in order to face her rival Feilin. In her ending in Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!, she becomes a tour guide who travels the world.
  • Ox (オックス, Okkusu)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". – a hidden final opponent in Karnov's Revenge, he is based on the ox that players faced in the early Data East fighting game Karate Champ.
  • RussiaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Chelnov (チェルノブ, Cherunobu)Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". (Челнов) – the final boss exclusive to Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!. The organizer of the "Last Great Grapple tournament", who wears a strange suit that conceals his true face. It is said that he was a former Russian scientist who was involved in a huge accident that almost killed him. Chelnov was originally the title character of a Data East arcade game of the same name.

Soundtracks

All three titles in the series had their soundtracks published on CD albums exclusively in Japan. The original arcade version of the original Fighter's History soundtrack was released by Pony Canyon and Scitron Label on June 18, 1993, while the SNES version's soundtrack was released by Project EGG on July 19, 2011, which can be downloaded on the official Project EGG website. On March 18, 1994, the soundtrack of the Neo Geo MVS / Neo Geo AES version of Karnov's Revenge was added with the Neo Geo MVS / Neo Geo AES soundtrack of Windjammers (known in Japan as Flying Power Disc) by Pony Canyon and Scitron Label in an album titled Fighter's History Dynamite / Flying Power Disc. This album features two exclusive arranged versions of "DYNAMITE" (from Karnov's Revenge) (Arrange Version begins) and "SHOOOT!!" (from Windjammers). Project EGG published the soundtrack of the Neo Geo MVS / Neo Geo AES version of Karnov's Revenge on July 26, 2011, alone without the arranged version of "DYNAMITE", which like their other soundtrack, also can be downloaded on the official Project EGG website. On August 26, 2005, Insanity Naked Hunter Co., Ltd. published the same version Project EGG published, but exclusively as a CD album. On March 19, 1995, Pony Canyon and Scitron Label published the soundtracks of the Neo Geo CD version of Karnov's Revenge and Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! both in the album titled Fighter's History Dynamite NEO-GEO CD & Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!.

Other appearances in media

Outside of the Fighter's History series, Makoto Mizoguchi became prominent when he appeared in several other video games. He appeared in the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation versions of Data East's 1995 Water Margin-based fighting arcade game, Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty as an extra character. The Sega Saturn version is known outside Japan as Dark Legend. He and Liu Yungmie later appeared in its Japan-exclusive semi-sequel, titled as Suiko Enbu: Fuuun Saiki. Five years after Data East went out of business while giving their video game rights to G-Mode, Paon, WorkJam and Crea-tech, SNK Playmore signed a deal with G-Mode to use their characters from the Fighter's History series in two SNK Playmore titles.[3] Makoto Mizoguchi became the only character from the Fighter's History series as a special guest character in an upgrade to KOF titled as KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A, to promote the Japan-exclusive cell phone game specifically featuring the cast of Fatal Fury Special and Karnov's Revenge titled as Garou Densetsu vs. Fighter's History Dynamite.[4] Makoto Mizoguchi also appeared in Joe & Mac Returns as one of the enemies in the game, and as a hidden character in Kenka Bancho. In the 1998 film The Replacement Killers, a Fighter's History arcade cabinet appears along with several other arcade cabinets.[5]

See also

Notes

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References

  1. ↑ "Daiva, Fighter's History and Kirby join Nintendo Switch Online". Eurogamer.net. 22 July 2022. https://www.eurogamer.net/daiva-fighters-history-and-kirby-join-nintendo-switch-online. 
  2. ↑ "SNES Kirby's Avalanche, Daiva Story 6 Join Nintendo Switch Online". 22 July 2022. https://www.siliconera.com/snes-kirbys-avalanche-daiva-story-6-join-nintendo-switch-online/. 
  3. ↑ "SNKプレイモアとジー･モードがキャラクター相互利用契約を締結". Dengeki Online. http://www.dengekionline.com/data/news/2006/11/1/1328be6ddf720a77a41f1dc7f7e82747.html. 
  4. ↑ "餓狼伝説VS.ファイターズヒストリーダイナマイト｜Gモードスタイル". G-Mode. http://www.g-mode.jp/appli/garou-vs-fhd/. 
  5. ↑ "ARCADE AT THE MOVIES PAGE 6". MAME World. http://www.mameworld.net/movies/movies6.htm. 

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Fighter's History

Features

Edits and submissions to the site (including screenshots, box art, developer information, game summaries, and more) go through a verification process of fact-checking by volunteer "approvers".[2] This lengthy approval process after submission can range from minutes to days or months.[3] The most commonly used sources are the video game's website, packaging, and credit screens. There is a published standard for game information and copy-editing.[4] A ranking system allows users to earn points for contributing accurate information.[5]

Registered users can rate and review games. Users can create private or public "have" and "want" lists, which can generate a list of games available for trade with other registered users. The site contains an integrated forum. Each listed game can have its own sub-forum.

History

Logo used until March 2014

MobyGames was founded on March 1, 1999, by Jim Leonard and Brian Hirt, and joined by David Berk 18 months later, the three of which had been friends since high school.[6][7] Leonard had the idea of sharing information about computer games with a larger audience. The database began with information about games for IBM PC compatibles, relying on the founders' personal collections. Eventually, the site was opened up to allow general users to contribute information.[5] In a 2003 interview, Berk emphasized MobyGames' dedication to taking video games more seriously than broader society and to preserving games for their important cultural influence.[5]

In mid-2010, MobyGames was purchased by GameFly for an undisclosed amount.[8] This was announced to the community post factum , and the site's interface was given an unpopular redesign.[7] A few major contributors left, refusing to do volunteer work for a commercial website.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025} On December 18, 2013, MobyGames was acquired by Jeremiah Freyholtz, owner of Blue Flame Labs (a San Francisco-based game and web development company) and VGBoxArt (a site for fan-made video game box art).[9] Blue Flame Labs reverted MobyGames' interface to its pre-overhaul look and feel,[10] and for the next eight years, the site was run by Freyholtz and Independent Games Festival organizer Simon Carless.[7]

On November 24, 2021, Atari SA announced a potential deal with Blue Flame Labs to purchase MobyGames for $1.5 million.[11] The purchase was completed on 8 March 2022, with Freyholtz remaining as general manager.[12][13][14] Over the next year, the financial boost given by Atari led to a rework of the site being built from scratch with a new backend codebase, as well as updates improving the mobile and desktop user interface.[1] This was accomplished by investing in full-time development of the site instead of its previously part-time development.[15]

In 2024, MobyGames began offering a paid "Pro" membership option for the site to generate additional revenue.[16] Previously, the site had generated income exclusively through banner ads and (from March 2014 onward) a small number of patrons via the Patreon website.[17]

See also

  • IGDB – game database used by Twitch for its search and discovery functions

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sheehan, Gavin (2023-02-22). "Atari Relaunches The Fully Rebuilt & Optimized MobyGames Website". https://bleedingcool.com/games/atari-relaunches-the-fully-rebuilt-optimized-mobygames-website/. 
  2. ↑ Litchfield, Ted (2021-11-26). "Zombie company Atari to devour MobyGames". https://www.pcgamer.com/zombie-company-atari-to-devour-mobygames/. 
  3. ↑ "MobyGames FAQ: Emails Answered § When will my submission be approved?". Blue Flame Labs. 30 March 2014. http://www.mobygames.com/info/faq7#g1. 
  4. ↑ "The MobyGames Standards and Practices". Blue Flame Labs. 6 January 2016. http://www.mobygames.com/info/standards. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Miller, Stanley A. (2003-04-22). "People's choice awards honor favorite Web sites". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 
  6. ↑ "20 Years of MobyGames" (in en). 2019-02-28. https://trixter.oldskool.org/2019/02/28/20-years-of-mobygames/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Plunkett, Luke (2022-03-10). "Atari Buys MobyGames For $1.5 Million". https://kotaku.com/mobygames-retro-credits-database-imdb-atari-freyholtz-b-1848638521. 
  8. ↑ "Report: MobyGames Acquired By GameFly Media". Gamasutra. 2011-02-07. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/report-mobygames-acquired-by-gamefly-media. 
  9. ↑ Corriea, Alexa Ray (December 31, 2013). "MobyGames purchased from GameFly, improvements planned". http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/31/5261414/mobygames-purchased-from-gamefly-improvements-planned. 
  10. ↑ Wawro, Alex (31 December 2013). "Game dev database MobyGames getting some TLC under new owner". Gamasutra. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/game-dev-database-mobygames-getting-some-tlc-under-new-owner. 
  11. ↑ "Atari invests in Anstream, may buy MobyGames". November 24, 2021. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-11-24-atari-invests-in-anstream-may-buy-mobygames. 
  12. ↑ Rousseau, Jeffrey (2022-03-09). "Atari purchases Moby Games". https://www.gamesindustry.biz/atari-purchases-moby-games. 
  13. ↑ "Atari Completes MobyGames Acquisition, Details Plans for the Site's Continued Support". March 8, 2022. https://www.atari.com/atari-completes-mobygames-acquisition-details-plans-for-the-sites-continued-support/. 
  14. ↑ "Atari has acquired game database MobyGames for $1.5 million" (in en-GB). 2022-03-09. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/atari-has-acquired-game-database-mobygames-for-1-5-million/. 
  15. ↑ Stanton, Rich (2022-03-10). "Atari buys videogame database MobyGames for $1.5 million". https://www.pcgamer.com/atari-buys-videogame-database-mobygames-for-dollar15-million/. 
  16. ↑ Harris, John (2024-03-09). "MobyGames Offering “Pro” Membership". https://setsideb.com/mobygames-offering-pro-membership/. 
  17. ↑ "MobyGames on Patreon". http://www.patreon.com/mobygames. 

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