The fighting game scene may be thriving today, but when the origins of the genre were much more humble. After Yie Air Kung Fu (1984) and International Karate (1985) introduced the idea of one-on-one ...

One of the fondest moments of my childhood was being genuinely terrified by the opening to Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. By that point in my life, I’d played the Street Fighter games and was ...