/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8697495
Plasma Sword. I don't know how obscure people here would consider it though. Most of the time I suggest a game when this is asked some guy wants to get into a debate on how obscure or not obscure my recommendation was, and I cannot care.

rage of the dragons for neo geo

Kakuto Chojin and Tao Feng. Both on Xbox. Both forgotten. Both had potential.

>>8697495
Sega's Dark Edge is pretty rad.

Evil Zone.

Easy and simple gameplay but great 90s anime aesthetic and music.

Asuka 120%

Variable Geo

Tobal 2.

A Squaresoft fighting game on the Ps1 that almost matches Virtua Fighter in how complex the gameplay actually is.

>>8697495
dunno how obscure it is really but i remember havin some fun with heritage for the future on fightcade a few years back
probably best to have people ya know to play it with though

critical blow

>>8697562
>A Squaresoft fighting game on the Ps1 that almost matches Virtua Fighter in how complex the gameplay actually is.

There is a reason for that.

Last Bronx

>>8697549
Sunsoft's first fighter Galaxy Fight is also bretty good!

cardinal syn

Lightning Legend - Konami's anime 3D fighter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E-2Erp3z_M

Fighting Vipers 2 on Dreamcast is awesome. More fun than Virtua Fighter 3 that's for sure.

>>8697574
Cool fact! Gonna have to check this one out.

>>8697575
Based.

Martial Masters is pretty rad. Only every came out on a Taiwanese neo geo knock off board though.

Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash

>>8697502
Star Gladiator is a lot better

>>8697709
i don't fucking care man

not obscure back then but has faded since

Ages ago I recall playing an arcade 2D fighting game in which one of the characters had an attack where he would grab the enemy with his hair and constrict them with it. The character was some sort of kabuki fighter? I think?
Literally no one I have spoken to knows what the fuck I'm talking about so I sometimes wonder if the whole thing was just a fever dream, I don't know.

>>8697495
>Unreleased stuff can be mentioned as well

The videogame of lobo for super nintendo. It was never realeased as far i know. And i will be honest: that game does not look so good, but still i loved something of it: i loved how in the prototype you can see during the fight in the portrait of the enemy how he/she gets his/her face more and more beaten as he/she receives damage. Thats is something very rare to see in most fighting videogames(at least during the fight).

King of Fighters Maximum Impact Regulation A

Metal and Lace 2

Golden Axe: The Duel

I always really liked the first Fighting Vipers game, as well. Which could be pretty obscure these days.

Flying Dragon on N64

>>8697734
Did the game have digitized actors or prerendered cg sprites?

>>8697771
I honestly don't remember but I'm almost certain they were not digitalized actors, I seem to recall it having anime style sprites.

>>8697495
Does this count lol

Final Fight Revenge

>>8697749
>King of Fighters anything
Fuck off
>>8697787
You too.

street fighter 2

>>8697507
And Matrimelee
https://youtu.be/yP4mcpWfZP8

>>8697845
Fuck you

>>8697495
Not super obscure, but I loved Fighting Vipers as a kid. No idea how it holds up, but it's worth a try.

>>8697937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zJwjXUG8u8

>>8697495
Most obscure one I can think of is this PSX title sort of like Psychic force, except you didn't fly around. You still mostly through magic/psychic stuff around, and it was a 3D arena fighter. Cannot remember the name of it to save my life.

>>8697806
>2000 realease on a console dead since 98'
Wtf they where smoking?
Looks fun though.

>>8697943
Doing a bit of google searching, it seems like it's either Destrega or something really similar to Destrega.

>>8697948
>2000 realease on a console dead since 98'

Sega discontinued the Saturn in Japan in 2000. But it was discontinued everywhere else worldwide in 1998.

>>8697787
Nigga this game was in Dexter's Laboratory, OP asked for obscure stuff

Do you people have friends to play these with or do you play them alone?

>>8697495
Fighter's Destiny

>>8697845
Some KOF stuff is kind of obscure, at least as much as half the games posted in this thread so far. Like the GBA games, which are not ports but actually their own little spin-off series with a handful of exclusive characters never seen anywhere else. The first game plays like ass though, the second one is fine.

>>8697965
I'm not without some buddies I get together with now and again but as we get older it's a bit harder to really find the time.

I guess the most "obscure" retro fighting games are the ones that there's no emulation or the MAME driver is still in an unplayable state.

I'm still waiting for a miracle: an emulator that can run Fighting Wu-Shu 2nd. Looks really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Odm4bQs2o

I will say Double Dragon on the Neo-Geo MVS/ AES. Double Dragon is not an obscure IP, but this is a Neo-Geo 1v1 fighting game that is tied into the shitty Double Dragon live action movie.

https://youtu.be/ygKEbRB6n7s?t=3

Fighting Spirit
a Neo-Geo style fighting game that runs on a stock Amiga 500
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJYKtfSSZC8

>>8697550
i wish we had an undub version of it with subs.

The Aura series was pretty cool. Asura buster was my favorite
https://youtu.be/bqqyZgnPejw

Does anyone know what game this is?
I found this arcade game in early 2020 iirc in a mall it looked pretty old but it inspired me to play fighting games. But after that the lockdown happened and couldn't go to play it, I don't remember much about the game. When the lockdowns were lifted I went to play it again but it disappeared from that place.
I went on google to search from old images taken at that place by other people and this is the only image I found of the game.

>>8698240
Virtua Fighter 4

>>8698274
thanks man! I was expecting to be something released in the 90s but close enough

100% finished fighting game for Atomiswave.
Never released.

Full working version leaked a year or so ago. Looks amazing. Never got my hands on a working rom yet.

>>8697948
It isnt. It's boring as fuck and the last boss is a zombie of the guy you killed in final fight.

>>8697942
Play the arcade perfect ps3 or 360 release. The saturn version has aged bad.

>>8697550
Evil zone deserves better

>>8698183
Try not being a cuckold beta sub male

>>8698332
>It isnt. It's boring as fuck and the last boss is a zombie of the guy you killed in final fight.

Isn't Final Fight Revenge the only 3D game on the Saturn to use the 4MB RAM cartridge?

Kensei sacred fist for psx it´s my favorite fighting game , love how every character have 2 fight stances

>>8697734
The only game that comes to my mind with an attack like that is Oedo Fight. It went by the name Blood Warrior in North America. You might have played the game before it by the same devs who had a character in that game literally named Kabuki.

>>8697550
was gonna recommend this

>>8697495
FX Fighter and FX Fighter Turbo. PC only,

>>8697727
One of my favorites. Still has a great theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvlVaQl7kEk

>>8697734
Samurai Shodown series has Kyoshiro. not sure if he has that constricting move in one of the games, but he does appear in many.

>>8698516
>FX Fighter
I remember playing the demo which only had Jake and Magnon. My poor 486 wasn't powerful enough for it.

>>8697727
Speaking of I actually had quite a lot of fun playing its critically panned sequel (do you still consider it a fighting game? it being more of a third-person brawler). Also had banger tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rro00XovOFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwbdLBn56E8

>>8698314
I hope it gets a Dreamcast conversion

>>8697550
wasnt the OP sung by masami okui just like advanced vg 2?

I remember it being a fun game as a kid. Don't know if it's considered obscure

>>8697550
This has THE most based character in video games - Galley "Vanish" Gregman, the Bounty Hunter who is voiced by the guy who does colonel in MGS. The voice is exactly the same except in a hammy anime story which is as funny as it sounds.

At least watch his story if you're not going to play the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmg9ODarCcs

>>8698550
>>8698314
It already did. Along with another obscure fighter, force five.

https://cdromance.com/dc-iso/kenju-atomiswave-port/
https://cdromance.com/dc-iso/force-five-atomiswave-port/

Dark Awake/Chaos Breaker

>>8697948
THIS GAME HAS A HOKUTO NO KEN REFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alright, where are the obscure ones? Haven't seen a single one so far here.

>>8697495
last bronx?

>>8697948
street fighter alpha 3 was on sega saturn

>>8697495
Daraku Tenshi/The Fallen Angels by Psikyo. Unfortunately Psikyo was purchased by SNK before the game's completion but an incomplete build does exist and is playable enough. Gameplay wise it's nothing special, being a beta it's very rough and mostly just the basic groundwork, but aesthetically it looks fantastic with its grimey, dark aesthetic. It was actually picked up recently to see a full release but covid halted development, this game is just about cursed.

Just barely found out about Astra Superstars. Great game for the Saturn

>>8699529
I have the ST-V cartridge. Bit simplistic for my taste.

Avengers: Galactic Storm

>>8698365
Even if it did you honestly couldn't tell. The graphics look fucking terrible even by saturn limitations. Battle arena toshiden 1 looks light years ahead of it.
The music is terrible and really forgettable, the characters moves are limited and the sfx just seems...off...somehow. like you would expect hagger to have a big WACK sound for a double hammer fist attack but instead it just sounds like a quiet thud.

The stages are garbage and in most cases just flat backgrounds but nothing memorable like what tekken 2 had.

It's really an awful game. Expensive shite that's only expensive because it was limited upon release and thanks to retarded collectors it costs a small fortune.

Give me sfz3 any day over this

>>8699643
I had a lot of fun playing it drunk with friends

Not obscure enough?

>>8699780
Nah

>>8699821
Ask 50 people on the street if they've heard of it

>>8699848
I guess every fighting game beside Street Fighter and Tekken is obscure then.

>>8699848
It's pretty common, the Japanese version that is. I played that a lot with friends in college.

>>8699861
>>8699864
Then what about pic.

>>8699869
I played that one in a local arcade. DC port was better of course.

>>8699861
>thinks Tekken is more well known than Mortal Kombat
I don’t think you’re a very good example of someone who knows what people who go outside have heard of

>>8700250
>>thinks Tekken is more well known than Mortal Kombat
>I don’t think you’re a very good example of someone who knows what people who go outside have heard of

in 2022, Mortal Kombat is the far bigger brand, thanks to the WB Interactive funding NetherRealm Studios. The last Tekken game was 2015, which wasn't that long ago. Tekken is not really an obscure series either. I would say Virtua Fighter has fallen into more obscurity than Tekken. But Sega is brought back VF5 in 2021.

>Thread about obscure games
>Spergs who spend every single waking hour for the last 30 years thinking about video games and not making friends sperging about what isn't obscure enough
Every. Single. Time.

>>8699821
>the band Rival Schools is probably better known than the game series
>who?

>>8700483
No that's ta different band.

>>8697532
Kakuto Chojin was built on the Tobal engine, so it's pretty solid. Tao Feng had some neat ideas buried under a mountain of jank.

>>8697550
>censor erel's leotard/thong into a bodysuit to cover her butt and avoid bad press
>gives me a lifelong fetish for yoga pants instead
THAT'LL TEACH 'EM

>>8697948
It's fucking terrible.
>1993-tier blocky character models
>drive-thru window quality voices
>each character only has two special moves
>weapons are unbalanced as fuck and are basically insta-win
>CPU blocks everything and is boring to fight against
>even with a second player, you'll see everything there is to see after 15 minutes

Definitely not worth the insane prices it's going for these days.

>>8698953
do you know the name of artist for that cover?

>>8701071
Not him but I want to say it's Range Murata.

>>8699848
>excuse me sir do you know about project just
>Project Justice? Yes of course how could you tell?
>OMG you too!?
>heeeeey Project Justiceeeeee

>>8697562
That's the thing about obscure fighting games: Does the complexity of the mechanics really matter if the game is too obscure to ever play against another human who's taken the time to learn them?

>>8697550
>>8697562
>>8697568
>>8697596
>>8697598
>>8697761
>>8697787
>>8697942
>>8697948
>>8697969
>>8698003
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>>8698601
>>8699518
>>8699780
>>8699869
nothing remotly obscure about these games
get a videogame culture before posting, zoomies

Where are the obscure games?

>>8701321
thank you, anon

>>8702270
>get a videogame culture before posting, zoomies
No way you'll ever have sex

Sengoku Basara X

>>8697495
probably not obscure enough for some but the Bushido Blade games are definatly worth a shop & any youngsters here would think they are obscure as they didnt spawn a big series of releases, damn good fun though

>>8702212
They pretty much only matter conceptually at that point. If you’re a gamedesign theoryfag then there’s novelty in the ideas that can be fun to think about, but realistically you’ll never engage with the deeper parts of the game firsthand, or at least not in any multiplayer capacity without which there isn’t much point.

>>8702270
>nothing remotly obscure about these games
>get a videogame culture before posting, zoomies

How many people have actually played Fighters MegaMix for the Sega Saturn? The game was never ported anywhere else. Not even to PC. Actually owned a Sega Saturn back in the day, I could never find the game to purchase anywhere at retail. Despite the Virtua Fighter franchise being well known, and the Fighting Vipers franchise being less-than well known. The only way to play Fighters Megamix is on a real Saturn, or through emulation. I would say Fighters Megamix is actually pretty obscure outside of some circles.

>>8703017
I did. It was one of the many imports I ordered blindly.
Importing JP stuff into Europe in the mid 90s was wild. Not only were most import dealers cutthroats...getting some proper info on the games themselves wasn't easy. If you were lucky then your preferred game magazine had the occasional import review.
Beyond that you were in for either disappointment or surprises.
"What's Radiant Silvergun? What the hell is Taromaru? No idea. Those will set me back 300 DM this month but I'll take them."

thanks for reading grandpa's blog

>>8703017
>The game was never ported anywhere else

Correction. It was ported to the Tiger Game.com.

>>8703104
How many people owned a game.com? I've never seen the thing in stores back then, at least not in Europe.

>>8703092
>I did. It was one of the many imports I ordered blindly.

Fighters Megamix came out in late 1996, and didn't exactly get the biggest release. Sega didn't put much advertising behind it. The game was never ported to the Sega ST-V hardware. It was a Saturn exclusive, outside of that weird Game.COM port. It's a game that I pirated for the Saturn, because I couldn't find a copy. Though I guess I could have always checked ebay. I love Figghters Megamix though. Pretty sure the devs were quoted as saying tat Fighters MegaMix was built from the Fighting Viper Saturn game engine. Also, the VF2 cast has a large part of their VF3 movesets, giving you an early preview for VF3. Plus they have the VF3 style 3D gameplay, with the dodge button. Also, Janet from Virtua Cop has Aoi's moveset, and the game has the unlockable Shiba, a character that was cut from VF1. It's an interesting mash-up of everything AM2.

>>8703136
I never looked THAT deep into Megamix. I remember it as fun, definitely miles above the other Saturn beam em up I imported that month: FIST.

>>8703157
>I never looked THAT deep into Megamix. I remember it as fun, definitely miles above the other Saturn beam em up I imported that month: FIST.

It's not the most well balanced fighter, and was never really meant to be. It is mainly a mash up of Virtua Fighter (in this case VF2.5) vs Fighting Vipers. Though the gameplay is geared more towards the Fighting Vipers style. Virtua Fighter characters do not have breakable armour, but do have armour breaking moves. The armour and walls can be shut off. The game has a lot of unlockable 'meme' fighters. Like the Daytona USA Hornet car, Bean and Bark from Sonic the Fighters, and Rent-A-Hero. This one is still a Saturn exclusive beyond the Game.Com version.

Burning Rival

Chaos Breaker (also called Dark Awake) is pretty cool. A DND inspired 3v3 fighter that lets you also use items in combat.

The Rumble Fish

>>8697495
The Unholy War for PS1 was an underrated gem. Same devs that did Star Control. You like Star Control don't you /vr/? It has similar playstyle to SC1 but with creatures instead of ships.
>Rock-paper-scissors like strategy in choosing your fighters
>Chess map strategy mode or just basic pvp
>Hints at a very cool story, "Magic vs Technology" theme, every character race has some depth to it.
>The strategy mode is simple but really good with various maps and a number of ways to create advantages/disadvantages before the 1v1 combat starts

The downside is this game can only be truly enjoyed if you have an equally skilled buddy to play against. The AI is unsurprisingly crap.

I fuckin love this game but like a lot of obscure 1v1 fighters, it's just impossible to find a worthy opponent.

>>8697495
Dong Dong Never Die
https://youtu.be/r5yA-uE-sH4

>>8704316

This one came out in 2009, so I don't consider it to be retro. But I do love the effort that went into this one.

>>8697495
What’s the best /vr/ fighter for pantsu?

If I have an ntscu dreamcast can I play fighting vipers 2? I had no idea it even existed until this thread

>>8697557
Thanks for this anon. This one is new to me. Reminds me of VG (but not as cool) will check it out regardless!

>>8704564
Depending on your model you can burn a copy and play that.

>>8700392
Friends get old and die. Viddy games are forever.

>>8697495
battle raper

>>8704676
I burned a copy and found out I can play it in 60hz. Really fun and goofy, but it seems to be hard on my laser, I hear it shifting a lot during the character select menu and the intro cutscene.
The controls are definitely gonna take some getting used to, the only am2 fighting game I’ve played was vf4, and while some things are similar others are different

for obscure fighters that are worth playing
groove on fight (arcade, saturn)
advanced variable geo 2 (ps1)

mame still has a handful of obscure fighting games that aren't fully emulatable yet
fighting bujutsu and fighting wu-shu 2nd
battle tryst
tenth degree
all the 3d samurai shodowns

kenju was a pretty major find
also the relationship between force five and jingi storm is interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVTvklJSeBQ

>>8704694
Games are no fun alone. The thing I miss the most is playing these games with friends.

>>8704826
3D was a mistake

>>8704247
>nagar

>>8704826
this looks awesome, reminds me of Fear Effect's cel shading, this art style aged like fine whine

Just for the BS boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCicpdHQLe0

This one is fun. It's unique in that you can take your opponents signature move after you beat them. And you can choose all your opponents for arcade mode for some reason.

Tried out the PS1 port, it's unbelievably bad. Fatal Fury/King of Fighters/Samurai Shodown PS1 ports are usually not bad, how was this one botched so terribly?

>>8705713
>this looks awesome
get your eyes checked

>>8705713
If you like those horrid graphics. You'll probably love the horrible looking Ragnagard.

>>8705772
>>8705782
you people are blind, this looks fantastic
https://youtu.be/rLDP1RQQv2Q?t=12

>>8705782
3DCG & 3Dレンダリング was the hot shit to do at the time.

>>8705809
>this looks fantastic

>>8705809
pretty much prototype xrd

>>8705764
Obari as fuck. In fact it's so Obari as fuck. Obari's actually in it.

>>8705764
>Gowcaizer
more like Cowtits

>>8706029

>>8705809

I think it looks great. I had to look up the hardware, and it is using the Sammy Atomiswave hardware, which was basically a close spec to the NAOMI hardware. I guess there are quite a few obscure fighters on Atomiswave.

>>8706090
I miss casual hard nipples in anime stuff like this

>>8706090
looking at her breasts actually make me have a erection

>>8705764
I really wish this got released on saturn

>>8697502
Keep shut, bitch

>>8698183
Fucking die. Reading anime and vidya is for retarded monkeys. I hope your eyes shit out and you can never read a subtitle again.

>>8707248

>>8707246
Consider suicide bud

>>8698332
>Saturn version aged bad
Fuck off zoomie

>>8707497
To be fair it's not like the saturn port had any real extras that I remember and now that the arcade version is plenty available it really is the better options. Now if only someone would release the arcade version of DOA1,

>>8707695
>To be fair it's not like the saturn port had any real extras that I remember and now that the arcade version is plenty available it really is the better options. Now if only someone would release the arcade version of DOA1,

The Saturn port of DOA1 looks just as good as Virtua Fighter 2 on the Saturn. In some ways, better. The Saturn DOA was also ported to the original Xbox as Dead or Alive 1 Ultimate. This is the Saturn game ported to the Xbos with the arcade models replacing the Saturn models. The one thing that this version is missing from the Model 2 arcade game are the 3D backgrounds.

Xbox:
https://youtu.be/U3XcgAVyWYU
Saturn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFgoSGMmMeU
Arcade:
https://youtu.be/SLGBX4LQ13Y?t=151

>>8707707
I'd still like to see more versions of things preserved. And that's not even getting into all the different + whatever versions.

>>8707695
This is and always will be the best version of Lei Fang

>>8707714
>I'd still like to see more versions of things preserved. And that's not even getting into all the different + whatever versions.

Oh sure. A proper arcade port would be nice. Just pointing out that even the Saturn port of DOA1 was ported to other hardware, like the Xbox. Though, I remember Tomonobu Itagaki saying somewhere, that he considers the Saturn version to be the definitive DOA1. Which is why Team Ninja apparently ported it to the OG Xbox.

>>8707718
I liked this outfit myself and while I dig the ring braids but I do wish she kept more of her original design elements. same for the rest of the cast. Still will always be my favorite.

>>8707721
DOA1 ultimate is a very good port of the game. The saturn version is fantastic to start with. And yeah he had some interesting preferences about things. (And a huge hate boner for sony) I just wish they'd have included it even if only as an extra.

>>8707723
>DOA1 ultimate is a very good port of the game. The saturn version is fantastic to start with. And yeah he had some interesting preferences about things. (And a huge hate boner for sony) I just wish they'd have included it even if only as an extra

I have never actually played the arcade DOA1. I have put a little time into the Saturn game, through emulation. So, I have no idea if the Saturn game has any tweaked or rebalanced gameplay (like a Virtua Fighter 2.1). As a Saturn port, it is comparable to Virtua Fighter 2. It runs in 708x480i @60fps (like VF2), uses the same 3D playing field trick for the arena's like VF2. I generally think the models look better in DOA. But clearly doesn't come close to the Model 2 game visually, Though, it looks like a faithful arcade port. The Xbox port seems like the same game, with the higher poly arcade models, better textures, and is higher resolution. It's the Saturn version with arcade assets,it seems. I have never played the PS1 version either, so I can't compare that one. But, I wouldn't mind an arcade port that is comparable to the Virtua Fighter 2 XBLA (360) arcade port.

>>8707248
>Reading is for retarded monkeys

>>8697495
Well, there's Elfmania, which was kinda of a big deal back in the day with it's compared to other Amiga games insanely fast loading times, KI that adapts to your fighting style and great graphics for the system. But for me it was always much too hard.

Also this was made my Terramarque, wich are now better known as Housemarque.

>>8707798

Urban Champion

>>8697668

Before they adopted the now well-known Musou formula, the very first Dynasty Warriors was a fighting game.

>>8707805
>>8707798
That gives me some bad Body Blows vibes. At least the art seems OK-ish.

>>8707707
doa 1 xbox is just the saturn version in higher resolution, but still uses the saturn models.
saturn version is very barebones but the only cuts were character polys and 3d stages, so its very faithful as a port.

ps1 version had new models made from scratch, and they end up looking worse than saturn.
literally everything in ps1 was changed, even the stages and music however the sheer amount of extras make it the best version unless you want an arcade accurate experience.

>>8707768
The saturn port is as faithful as you can really expect it to be. I've actually only managed to see a cab in the wild once so I can't actually say if there were too many balance fixes myself either. As another anon pointed out the biggest and most immediate and perhaps only really major thing missing is the 3D backgrounds but it sure would be nice to get a perfect edition that brought them back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk1mUcV4B-Y
The ceiling in the China stage is very nice

>>8708120
Only in America. The Musou brand actually first started with what we have as DW2 in the states and the Dynasty Warriors title was just attached to that for branding.

>>8708313
>doa 1 xbox is just the saturn version in higher resolution, but still uses the saturn models.

I guess it does use the Saturn models, going by your image. I oddly thought it was like the PC port of Virtua Fighter 2. VF2 was released for Windows 95 in 1997. I had a copy of it, myself. It was a straight port of the Saturn game, but also features D3D acceleration and the option to use the arcade Model 2 game models instead of the Saturn models.

>>8708680
>As another anon pointed out the biggest and most immediate and perhaps only really major thing missing is the 3D backgrounds but it sure would be nice to get a perfect edition that brought them back.

I love the look of the Model 2 arcade game. Model 2 board games have a distinctive look to them, in general. The board renders quads instead of polygons. Kind of like the Saturn. Model 2 games have a chunky-cubeiish look to them, DOA1 uses the same variant of the Model 2 board that Virtua Fighter 2 uses. The game overall is visually comparable to VF2. I never really got into DOA1. I spent more time with DOA2 on the Dreamcast.

>>8705764
Gowkaizer was the fucking tits. Obari is a god, he did another anime called Virus Buster Serge that has a saturn game but it's not a strict fighting game.

>>8697557
Probably the greatest fighting game soundtrack of all time, i sometimes boot up the game just to listen to the music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeIDZjXfS_A

>>8708907
DOA1 never quite got the push 2 did globally. I think the only version that even came out in the west was the PS1 version, which isn't a bad port really, and from all I could find the game was generally received well from those that played it. I liked it a lot myself though I was an early import fag so I got to play a lot of Japanese fighting games on my saturn. But even as a big fan of 1 I don't think many would argue that it was really 2 that pushed the series into the spot light.

But man I do miss that model 2 vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MducHV-WeIw

>fighting games
>worth playing

>>8708927
that's awesome

>>8697532
>Tao Feng
Still play it with some buddies. Cool game.

>>8709037
Wasn't that the one that was just a tech demo that some suit wanted to push into a real game or was that Kakuto Chojin

>>8709050
Kakuto Chojin was the tech demo.

>>8709058

Strip Fighter 2

>>8698516
was going to post this.

Futa Fighters

>>8705809
Looks great. Like Megaman Legends with more polygons.

You guys need to go deeper.
https://youtu.be/lHUxs64eHhk

I mean, OP said "worth playing". There are tons of stupid obscure fighting game, like Antagony, Savage Warriors, Tongue of the Fatman, Shadow Fighter, Brudal Baddle, and also those Taiwanese games I can't even read the names. I wouldn't say they're worth playing, though.

Bio Freaks for the PSX/N64.
At least check it on Youtube.

>>8707497
Oh look! A nigs opinion I didnt ask for

>>8707695
The arcade version was released on the original xbox with doa ultimate.
It's an arcade perfect port with 16.9mode. You can either play the AM2 rom which works flawlessly or play the xbox rom version which is 90% playable

>>8705809
>this looks fantastic

Expect no Mercy (PC).

I was tricked into buying this game. Seller said it was way cooler than Mortal Kombat.
It uses Quicktime movies for the moves.
One of the worst "games" I have ever played.

unreleased arcade Mortal Kombat clone "Deadly Sports" looks pretty cool https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Deadly_Sport_(Unreleased_1993_Arcade_Game)

>>8711841
>troomer at the top left
Did they hire one model to play all the characters?
That's actually based.

>>8711020
War Gods, Mace: The Dark Age, Bio F.R.E.A.K.S., and Mortal Kombat 4 all seem like rebrands of the same game

For the Saturnchads

Anarchy in the Nippon
Savaki
D-Xhird

>>8711949
lel, it almost seems so

>>8711989
>Anarchy in the Nippon
That's the one where Japanese everyday people (or more like everyday delinquents) fight each other, right?

>Savaki
Pretty good considering it was for the most part created by just one guy.
Very distinct fighting styles.

>D-Xhird
I didn't play this enough.

BoomBots for PS1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdm6n30SKMg

>>8711036
nobody asked you neither so eat shit

>>8706090
>tfw I permanently ruined my VHS copy because of this, and the shower scene where she makes an orgasm scream while her boobs fly all over the place

>>8712052
Calm down you black ape. No one is going to take your banana away

A lesser known fighter that I actually played and liked instead of googled was Spectral vs Generation on PS2

The most obscure game I can think of is Fightin Spirit for Amiga

>>8714046
I think that got ported to psp as well

I don't see many people talk about Eretzvaju

>>8697668
damnn i'm looking at a longplay and they reproduced the villain from operation scorpio, great movie by the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRANBh9wHvk

>>8705809
the new street fighter games should have tried to look like this unironically speaking

>>8715328
The main guy is literally Jet Li's Wong Fei Hung so I bet there's a lot of movie references

>>8715665

>>8715668
Incidentally it seems a lot of games will have some reference or version of Wong Fei Hung. He was kind of a big deal. Maybe.

But seriously, great sprite work for what is essentially a bootleg neo geo. I'm a bit sad this stuff isn't more famous

Heavy Nova, Iron and Blood, and I know Eternal Champions isn't obscure but I feel like most people forget it's there.
There's also a MM game that had a mini game in it that was a fighter-ish game. It was pretty fun.

Flash Hiders / Battle Tycoon

>>8697562
I love Tobal 2 so much.
I spent ridiculous amounts of time playing it when i was 9~10.

Also the music is amazing.
https://youtu.be/wI7n5b4D5S0

>>8697495
FX Fighter

>>8698516
>FX Fighter and FX Fighter Turbo. PC only,
>>8710380
>>8698530

ah you guys beat me to it,

>>8706090
Thanks for posting this. I had no idea this anime (or fighting game) existed. I'm snagging the OVA now

>>8716050
Friends, you are about to get Obari as fucked.

>>8716054
>all that shading and shine
Damn, I miss this polish

>>8715328
Good lord Russia dubs are weird.

>>8697495
I have a soft spot for Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi.

It is something of a Tekken\Soul Blade clone with what are essentially EX moves (in function) from Street Fighter mixed in. Also has a weapon stance mechanic years before Mortal Kombat would implement something similar.

If I knew how to make webms I'd show off the jank this game has. Let's say it's stuff like combos that cannot possibly complete outside of very fringe circumstances, standing strings that are unsafe against guarding /on hit/, and lots of bizarre attention to detail in some places.

Since I don't, you just have to settle with wondering who will win this trade of uppercuts as taken from the game's native rendering resolution.

>>8715839
This one is new to me. Looks cool!
Thanks

sadly the only way to experience these games today is through mediocre single player modes

>>8716769

Not an old game but an SNES game

A PS1 4 player adults only brawler that got unreleased and got reskinned as a Wu-Tang Clan themed fighting game.

How about this? I've never heard of it, and I thought I downloaded all the ps1 fighters. Just got uploaded to cdromance

>>8717361
Why anyone would purposely make a fighting game for the SNES of all systems is beyond me. I can understand old school SNES nostalgia, I can understand old school FIGHTIN nostalgia. But but by all log those should have very little overlap. Even if you were nostalgic for the fighting games snes had anyone who played them enough to want to make one knows that's just asking for trouble.

>>8717212
I wish i had friends to do 2-player with ;(

>>8717212
Some of us have families and friends you know

VS from THQ was actually a reskin of Fighter's Impact from Taito. It was dressed up to be all hip and urban because the 90s was weird like that. I feel like they might have been trying to horn in on Rival School's racket myself but it's nowhere near as good. I hear it caused a bit of a controversy because one of the characters is a pimp. But on the whole the game didn't leave much of an impact.

Glove on Fight, chibi 2D boxing crossover by French Bread. Has a sequel with an original cast and improvements in every single way.

>>8716054
Too bad anime like this never gets made anymore. Now they're too busy sexualizing 12-year-olds.

I had this as a kid and rarely see any discussion about it, Fighter's History was my jam. It was also the reason data east filed for bankruptcy.

>>8717212
>What is Fightcade

Not too obscure, but I find Sango Fighter 2 quite fun. Balance is a bit whack, tho.

>>8711975
iirc War Gods was a Devil May Cry situation where they forked an MK4 prototype into its own thing

>>8697495
It is a surprisingly decent fighting game if you like Virtua Fighter. Not many bring this game up, but it was a good time the one time it was shown off at our gatherings.

>>8720007
Fightcade is all well and good but not all games have the same popularity even there.

>>8721967
My god, you are the worst poster on /vr/

It has some notoriety but I still don't see people bring it up much.

I can't read the whole thread right now but does anybody know a 16 bit fighting game where the training mode has you beating up like floating balls? Little mechanical balls I mean. I have a memory of playing it over an emulator netplay as a kid in the 00s but I can't for the life of me recall it.

>>8721973
Was that Eternal Champions? That sounds familiar.

>>8721970
Yeah, pseudo-avatarfaggotry. Retard's been doing it for years.

>>8721975
Why can't the mods punish him?

>>8721970
You mean the most based person?
>>8721975
>>8721990
Seethe

>>8697495
Mace. Had an unreasonabily fun time just knocking fighters out of bounds. Not a violent game like MK or Samsho, just a good time.

Here's another shitty one for ps1. Shura no Mon

>>8724135
What the hell am I even looking at..
>Amiga
Ah. Makes sense

>>8704868
>>8705782
you guys have 0 drips, 0 street creds and no hoes. This shit looks really good.

Anyway, someone got a fighting game with GOOD gameplay? I'm not into 2D and feel like Tekken is the only one that got a good grip on a different fighting game take.

>>8724135
>ass check lady
>native american guy taking a shit
>guy from pennsylvania
a complete mess indeed
dont forget the paint can to make it run

>>8697495
Obscure fightan tends to be obscure for a reason. Making a good fighting game is hard.

>>8699518
That game is most famous for the fact that Styleos worked on it and when he joined SNK, he used two of the characters (both on that poster) as the basis for K' and Maxima.

I think Destrega isnt that obscure, but ive never meet someone who had played it bf.

Anyway, Destrega 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcMfYhL7LC4

>>8725704
"Destrega", not "Destrega 2".
My bad.

>>8704316

>>8725668
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_LMHN0sdh8

>>8716769
link the vids.

>>8716769
>If I knew how to make webms
https://gitgud.io/nixx/WebMConverter

>>8718582
Fighter's Impact is pretty cool, actually.
>heat up system to encourage custom combos/punish spam
>3 martial art modes for each character (although some moves are shared between practitioners)
>endless, walled and ring stages
>Zuntata soundtrack
One good thing did come out of the Vs. reskin though: some of its designs were reused in the even better Slap Happy Rhythm Busters.

One Must Fall: 2097

>>8720602
War Gods was basically a tech demo to make sure they could make MK4.

>>8728735
what's her story?

>>8700483
pretty good record that

>>8729334
>Be model
>Guys pay you to cosplay at game
>Cosplay at game
>Get paid

>>8729530
is there more of her?

There's Kakugo no Susume, based on the manga/ova that was called Apocalypse Zero in the west.
The OST is... interesting to say the least, especially the character select music

>>8729952
Kenji Yamazaki's best work, which doesn't mean much

>>8699780
Great game; criminally underrated.

>>8697495
Rumble Fish. It's fast as hell.

>>8698048
I used to play this in the arcade, it was pretty fucking impressive for the time. Doing full screen fireball supers blew my mind. I still remember watching a playthrough of a guy, he was close to losing with Dulton so he used his super fireball; while the character made the laughing charge up, the guy was slamming the controls shouting "SHOOT ALREADY".
This was in like 1996 at lake balaton. good times.

also rented the movie a shitload of times on vhs.

>>8707768
>I generally think the models look better in DOA.
DOA definitely has better looking 3d models than VF2, they have a lot more lifelike movement and dynamic animation (clothes, boob physics, etc).
VF2 runs hi-res backgrounds though, DOA does not.

>>8719573
crap, for a second I thought that was one of those parody fake covers.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf

>>8730531
Some of the songs are awful by I like how eerie a lot of them are

>>8730856
remove

>>8707798
>>8707805
supermarionation

>>8730934
>so ronery...

>>8725668
>nation: denmark

>>8730950
Would be accurate if it was Sweden.

makeruna makendou......2!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCCoa3Pe0_Q

>>8730950
>>8730967
>people can't migrate to another country

>>8730923
Why?

>>8730967
Both Sweden and Denmark has a LOT of African immigrants.

>>8730982
>some people shouldn't migrate out of their shithole countries
>a mouse born in a barn is a horse
kk lol

>>8730985
yes, unfortunately. I notice every day on my way to work.

>>8730981
>porting slightly enhanced versions of old ass SNES games to 32 bit consoles
why are devs like this

>>8730989
This is like complaining Ken from Street Fighter is unrealistic because he's a white dude from America, yet knows the same martial arts as a Japanese dude.

>>8730923
Make him.

>>8730967
beat me to it

>>8702270
I always get called a zoomer and I'm 32 lmao

dragon's heaven (no relation to the anime)

>>8730981
SNES music was better because of the 'rap'

>>8704256
I had this game as a kid - no idea how, or where from - and it was the most fun couch Versus game you could ask for. No one but my brothers know it.

>>8731406
ps1 still has that on character select though

>>8703115

Ayyyyy lmao

>>8727150
I compiled a bunch of clips I recorded from experimentation and uploaded them here because I suck at webm encoding right now: https://files.catbox moe/0f4329.mp4

You've got self-dropping combos, weird juggle mechanics, strings that are unsafe on hit, weird ringout detection in some cases... The game also doesn't know what a combo is, and only fakes it in Practice mode by counting the number of hits within a specific amount of time, no matter what those hits are.

I am also convinced that there is an attack cancel tech that can be triggered by randomly mashing. I think it'd be fun if some serious FGC type labbed in this game just to see how bizarre the game gets.

>>8731548
ah really?
who was the best Ma and why was it Makenro?

it's not so obscure but the Sailormoon fighting game has a small following.

>>8697495
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qngBXbs3Of0

https://youtu.be/9DXEisK2ga0

Advanced V.G.2 is legit.

If you played the first one, which was very mediocre gameplaywise and thought the sequel would be more of the same, give this a shot. It's improved massively, feels like a fusion between Street Fighter and King of Fighters. Broken as fuck, most character can do massive combos but it's fun as hell (except for that green haired bitch final boss, fuck her).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPWTcX1Gwes

>>8719573
if we're talking doujin fg, for me it's eternal fighter zero

Knuckle Kaiser/Global Champion

>8702270
Upvoted! We dit it, reddit!

>8702270
Upvoted! We dit it, reddit!

Rabbit

Kakutou Haou Densetsu - Algunos

>>8737770
Has the sound and voiced been properly emulated yet?

>>8737786
There are some sounds and voices that play while emulated, but they sound pretty bad, but then again so did 3rd Strike so it might be just how the game sounded?

There's Perfect Soldiers who's last boss turns out to be Bydo.

>>8735114
Wrong thread anon.
This is for obscure fighting games, not the greatest fighting game series of all time.

This game was kind of shit but also kind of really ambitious but mostly it's sort of mental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MscSvgNpx0

>>8698175
Thanks for sharing this one

>>8735114
>>8738839
VG needs a comeback. I miss Kimura's style in general.

>>8697502
You care a lot, apparently.

We had a game in our local arcade that my late bro was playing. I don't remember the name of it. I don't remember most things about this game, so I may be wrong here.
It was between 96-98, game was 3D in style of SF EX+a, Life bar was yellow. My bro played some dude with short hair, his name was probably Bobby, had blue hair (at least the color variant), Last boss was either some fucking woman or giant robot (I remember the stage was strobing like crazy). I'm counting on you guys

Waku Waku 7

>>8708993
Original Xbox got DOA1 with online play when DOA2U came to the USA. But it wasn't very active. You can also boot to doa1 from the doa2u disk without swapping if invited.

>>8738990
Big thick ponytails are a treasure.

>>8721970
>>8721975
Nah he's good.

The Killing Blade

>>8739358
Why did they make a disc for each game if the entirety of DOA1 is on DOA2's disc anyway?

for me, it's sonia.

>>8740723
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D8VHcCLOyIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0cA5CvSwvw

>>8739827
Long long hair and long long legs.

>>8740723
best girl
why did they remove her for psychic force 2?

>>8741764
because they were planning on making her the focus of the sequel for the ps3.
then squenix bought taito and shut it all down
i'm still mad.

>>8741776
There was a planned sequel? Is there any concept art or anything created for it at all?

>>8741925
no, the only things we have about it are an article that announces it being in development, and another one where they confirm it getting cancelled

>>8740807
>power
where the fuck can i download this game?

Superior Soldiers