Final Fight (video game)

Final Fight
International arcade flyer
Developer(s)
Capcom
  • Creative Materials (computers)
    A Wave (Mega-CD)
Publisher(s)
Capcom
  • Sega (Mega-CD)
Producer(s)Yoshiki Okamoto
Designer(s)Akira Nishitani
Akira Yasuda
Artist(s)Akira Yasuda
Composer(s)Manami Matsumae
Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
Yasuaki Fujita
Hiromitsu Takaoka
Yoko Shimomura
Junko Tamiya
Harumi Fujita
SeriesFinal Fight
Platform(s)Arcade, Super NES, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, X68000, Mega-CD, CPS Changer, Game Boy Advance, Java ME
Release
November 25, 1989
  • Arcade
    • JP: November 25, 1989[1]
    • WW: December 1, 1989
    Super NES
    Original
    • JP: December 21, 1990
    • NA: November 10, 1991
    • PAL: December 10, 1992
    Final Fight Guy
    • JP: March 20, 1992
    • NA: June 1994
    Home computers
    X68000
    • JP: July 17, 1992
    Sega CD
    CPS Changer
    Game Boy Advance
    • JP: May 25, 2001
    • NA: September 26, 2001
    • PAL: September 28, 2001
Genre(s)Beat 'em up
Mode(s)Single player, 2 player co-op
Arcade systemCP System

Final Fight[a] is a 1989 beat 'em up game developed and published by Capcom for arcades, being the seventh title released for the CP System hardware. Set in the fictional Metro City, the player controls one of three street fighters: former pro wrestler and city mayor Mike Haggar, expert brawler Cody Travers, and modern-day ninja Guy. The trio set out to rescue Jessica (Haggar's daughter and Cody's girlfriend) when she is kidnapped by the Mad Gear Gang.

The game began development as a sequel to the original Street Fighter released in 1987, under the working title Street Fighter '89,[b] but the genre was switched from a fighting game to a beat 'em up and the title was changed to Final Fight following the success of Double Dragon. Final Fight was ported to various home computers and consoles, including the ZX Spectrum, Super NES and Sega CD.

It became a major commercial success in arcades, selling 30,000 arcade units worldwide while becoming the highest-grossing arcade game of 1990 in Japan and the year's highest-grossing arcade conversion kit in the United States. The Super NES version also sold 1.5 million cartridges worldwide. Now considered one of the greatest video games of all time, it spawned the Final Fight series, followed by several sequels. Its development team later worked on the original Street Fighter II, and some of the characters from Final Fight later appeared as playable fighters in other entries of the franchise, such as the Street Fighter Alpha sub-series.

  1. ^ "Final Fight (Registration Number PA0000449204)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  2. ^ "ファイナルファイトCD" (in Japanese). Famitsu. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
  3. ^ "Original "Final Fight" caught by copyright". Leisure Line. Leisure & Allied Industries. August 1990. p. 3.


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