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Fighter's History
European arcade flyer of Fighter's History, the first game in the series.
Genre(s)	Fighting
Developer(s)	Data East
Publisher(s)	Data East

Fighter's History (ファイターズヒストリー^?) is a series of fighting games developed and published by Data East.

Contents 1 Games 2 Characters 2.1 Fighter's History 2.2 Fighter's History Dynamite/Karnov's Revenge 2.3 Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! 3 History 4 Related releases 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Games

• Fighter's History (1993)

  Originally released as an arcade game. Also ported to the Super NES.

• Fighter's History Dynamite (known in Europe as Karnov's Revenge) (1994)

  Originally released for the Neo Geo. Also ported to the Neo Geo CD and Sega Saturn, respectively.

• Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu (1995)

  Released exclusively in Japan for the Super Famicom, and as an extra in the Sega Saturn port of Fighter's History Dynamite.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Fighter's History

• Ray McDougal (レイ・マクドガル^?)
• Makoto Mizoguchi (溝口 誠, lit. "Mizoguchi Makoto"^?)
• Liu Feilin (劉 飛鈴, Japanese: Ryu Feirin, Chinese Pinyin: Liú Fēilíng)
• Ryoko Kano (嘉納 亮子, lit. Kano Ryōko^?)
• Matlock Jade (マットロック・ジェイド^?)
• Samchay Tomyamgun (サムチャイ・トムヤムクン^?)
• Lee Diendou (李 典徳 Japanese: Rii Diendō, Chinese Pinyin: Lǐ Diǎndé)
• Jean Pierre (ジャン・ピエール^?)
• Marstorius (マーストリウス^?)
• (allegedly, but not directly specified) Clown (クラウン^?)
• Karnov (カルノフ^?) - Data East's icon character who appears in the arcade game of the same name. He also made many cameo appearances in other Data East games.

[edit] Fighter's History Dynamite/Karnov's Revenge

• Zazie Muhaba (ザジィ・ムハバ^?) - A fighter from somewhere in Africa.
• Liu Yungmie (柳 英美（リュウ・ヨンミー）^?)
• Ox (オックス^?) - Originated from the bonus stages of the arcade version of Data East's other fighting game, Karate Champ.

[edit] Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!

• Chelnov (チェルノブ^?) - Karnov's cousin and another character from the Data East game of the same name, who also made several cameo appearances in other Data East games.

[edit] History

During the release of the first game in the series, it became best known for being responsible for its place in a lawsuit between Capcom U.S.A. and Data East U.S.A., over what Capcom felt were infringements on their Street Fighter II property. Capcom lost the case on grounds that the copied elements were scenes a faire and thus excluded from copyright.^[1] In 2003, Data East filed for bankruptcy and sold the Fighter's History franchise along with several other Data East titles to G-Mode.

[edit] Related releases

Outside of the Fighter's History series, Makoto Mizoguchi and Liu Yungmie later appeared as special guests in a Japan-exclusive semi-sequel to Data East's 1995 Water Margin-based fighting arcade game, Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty, titled as Suikoenbu Fuun 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.^[2] Makoto Mizoguchi also became the only character from the Fighter's History series as a special guest character in KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A, an upgrade to KOF: Maximum Impact 2. A Japan-exclusive cellphone game specifically featuring the cast of Fatal Fury Special and Fighter's History Dynamite was also released under the name Garou Densetsu vs. Fighter's History Dynamite.^[3]

In the 1998 movie The Replacement Killers, a Fighter's History unit appears along with several other arcades.^[4]

[edit] See also

• Avengers in Galactic Storm - a 1995 fighting game developed and published by Data East, which is based on characters in the Marvel universe and the storyline is from the Operation: Galactic Storm series.
• Mutant Fighter - a 1991 wrestling-style fighting game developed and published by Data East. Later ported to the Super Famicom as Death Brade.
• Hippodrome - a 1989 fighting game developed and published by Data East, which was their second and last fighting game before the release of Capcom's Street Fighter II.
• Tattoo Assassins - a 1994 fighting game developed and published by Data East Pinball and Data East USA with the help from Back to the Future screenwriter, Bob Gale, which was their answer to Midway's (now Warner Bros. Interactive's) Mortal Kombat franchise. Although, unreleased with prototype in existence, G-Mode bought the rights to it.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official G-Mode webpage of the Fighter's History series
• Fighter's History at Jap-Sai.com
• Fighter's History at the Killer List of Videogames
• Fighter's History Dynamite at the Killer List of Videogames
• Fighter's History at MobyGames