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This article is about fighting video games.

For fighting games involving many simultaneous opponents, see Beat 'em up and Hack and slash. For other uses, see Fight (disambiguation).

The fighting game genre involves combat between multiple characters, often (but not limited to) one-on-one battles.

Fighting game combat often features mechanics such as blocking, grappling, counter-attacking, and chaining attacks together into "combos".

Characters generally engage hand-to-hand combat, often with martial arts, but some may include weaponry.

Battles are usually set in a fixed-size arena along a two-dimensional plane, where characters navigate the plane horizontally by walking or dashing, and vertically by jumping.

Some games allow limited movement in 3D space, such as Tekken and Soulblade while some are set in fully three-dimensional environments without restricting characters' movement, such as Power Stone and Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm; these are sometimes referred to as "3D arena" fighting games.

A typical fighting game: the green fighter is blocking blue fighter's punch.
Colored bars above represent fighters' health.

The fighting game genre is distinctly related to the beat 'em up genre, which pits many computer-controlled enemies against one or more player characters.

The first video game to feature fist fighting is Heavyweight Champ (1976),[1] but Karate Champ (1984) actually features the one-on-one fighting game genre instead of a sports game in arcades.

Yie Ar Kung-Fu was released later that year with various fighting styles and introduced health meters, and The Way of the Exploding Fist (1985) further popularized the genre on home systems.

In 1987, Capcom's Street Fighter introduced special attacks, and in 1991, its highly successful sequel Street Fighter II refined and popularized many genre conventions, including combos.

Fighting games subsequently became the preeminent genre for video gaming in the early to mid-1990s, particularly in arcades.

This period spawned dozens of other popular fighting games, including franchises like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros., and Tekken.

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Final Fighter is a mobile online fighting RPG (combining strategy, cards, RPG, and fighting elements) requiring a network connection, featuring classic arcade gameplay and a story about fighting hybrid super-soldiers. Players control "Soul Fighters" elites against these powerful Hybrids in a world affected by P-Core fusion technology.

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📋 Genre: Light Strategy + Card + RPG + Fighting Game hybrid.

📋 Gameplay: Classic Arcade mode, customizable mobile controls.

📋 Story: Humanity fuses P-Core for enhanced power, leading to Hybrids revolting, forcing Soul Fighters to intervene.

📋 Requirement: Online game needing a network connection.

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Mortal Kombat Mobile is a 2015 fighting game released for smartphones and tablet computers by NetherRealm Studios. A part of the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games, it came out at the same time as the standard Mortal Kombat X release and features similar mechanics and graphics. The game has had a mixed reception among critics.

ℹ️ There was no major new Mortal Kombat Mobile release in 2022; the original game launched in 2015, and Mortal Kombat: Onslaught (a separate mobile RPG) began testing in late 2022 and launched in 2023. The original Mortal Kombat Mobile continued receiving updates (like the 6.2 update in 2025) but wasn't a 2022 release.

↪️ Key Mortal Kombat Mobile Releases around 2022:

📋Mortal Kombat Mobile (Original): Launched in 2015 (iOS) / May 2015 (Android).

📋 Mortal Kombat: Onslaught: A new mobile RPG that entered location testing on October 31, 2022, and officially released in 2023.

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📝ℹ️ Mortal Kombat Mobile is a 2015 fighting game released for smartphones and tablet computers by NetherRealm Studios. A part of the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games, it came out at the same time as the standard Mortal Kombat X release and features similar mechanics and graphics.

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📝ℹ️ Marvel Contest of Champions is a 2014 fighting video game developed and published by Kabam. It was released on December 10, 2014, for iOS and Android. The fighting game is primarily set in the Marvel Universe. The game is strongly based on the events of the limited comic book series CofC

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