For more information, see
Fighting game.
This
category is for
Versus fighting games emphasizing one-on-one
combat between two players, one of whom may be computer controlled. These games usually focus on
martial arts, which are usually so dramatic and physically impossible as to be comical. Some of these games may also employ hand-held weapons in addition to or instead of performing combat gymnastics (such as
Soul Calibur and some characters in
Mortal Kombat). This genre arose in the mid-
1980s and became a phenomenon with the release of
Street Fighter II; the genre is still popular today.
