Fighting Game timeline...

[geneterror]

Kinda cool but it also made me wonder where in the timeline a lot of people on here started playing fighting games. For me it's right at the start there I used to play Karate Champ at the arcade in Rainbows End with it's dual stick controls and Yie Ar Kung Fu was one of the first games I had on my Amstrad CPC6128.

[nztauranga]

Space invaders @ Big AL's in tauranga. gamings in the blood. Some out of days when i was kid running down to the arcade centre , butterflies in my stomach then arriving at arcade huge arcade centre jizzing in my pants.. all the lights and sounds going off and i was the 1st 1 there lol. Then they brought gambling games in arcades, snappy viper and unlimited nudges. Wow! Were they here in auckz?

[LN]

Karateka or IK I guess.

[geneterror]

I remember when IK+ came out on the C64, so awsome!

Timeline is missing One Must Fall 2097 (1994). Used to thrash that game on my awesome PC, DX2-50, 8mb RAM and no video card, Windows 3.11!

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

World Warrior and Tekken 2!!!!

It was around Tekken 2' release though, when i really start playing. I woulda been like three yrs old when SF2 come out.

[CaptainHook]

Does anyone know what the fighting game was called where one of the chars was a ninja, and i'm sure one of his specials he would say something like "Ninja Shadow" and then he'd turn invisible but you could still see his shadow on the ground i think. I was about 11 or 12 and i used to play it at my neighbours house on his commodore 64(? - maybe it was amiga, can't remember) cause we didn't get a family computer until i was like 17 (lol) and i think he had SF2 on it as well.

[kingpiccolo]

sf1 and IK on c64.

[nztauranga]

When I was 7yrs or there abouts, i would roll with my older cousins to the arcades, place was packed, i couldnt even see the screens then attauranga's very 1st arcades. They had defender then, that buck rogers space craft  throwing out lazers and bombs, the BADDEST game sounds ever!

[CptMunta]

Does anyone know what the fighting game was called where one of the chars was a ninja, and i'm sure one of his specials he would say something like "Ninja Shadow" and then he'd turn invisible but you could still see his shadow on the ground i think. I was about 11 or 12 and i used to play it at my neighbours house on his commodore 64(? - maybe it was amiga, can't remember) cause we didn't get a family computer until i was like 17 (lol) and i think he had SF2 on it as well.

Body Blows on the Amiga. Unless it had a C64 port

[CaptainHook]

Thanks Munta!
Wow, i did not remember how much of a SF2 ripoff it was. Apparently there was a DOS version too. But yeah it was Amiga.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Blows

[originaljulz]

Makes me feel so young. I only started in 1997ish, with Tekken 3 (first fighting game) and Soul Blade. Too young for anything else. I was born with Street Fighter 2 lol.

[Lennysaurus]

My first fighting game was Yie Ar Kung Fu on CPC6128 as well lol.

[nztauranga]

Astro wars back in 1982 on a game console same size as a toaster with a built-in screen, arcade stick and two buttons. 

[CaptainHook]

Which game do they play in the movie Bloodsport?

"Very good, but brick not hit back!!!!!"

[LN]

Karate Champ