Street Fighter
This Street Fighter character was created as a parody, lambasting a King of Fighters character who was seen as a rip-off of a Street Fighter character.
Who is 'Dan'?
This character shares a first name with a type of avian animal.
Who is 'Geese Howard'?
This series-famous, just-frame version of the special move is synonymous with the Mishima characters.
What is the 'Electric Wind God Fist'?
The home port of Virtua Fighter 1 was first released on this platform.
What is the "Sega Saturn"?
(The 32X port came later).
Mortal Kombat is known for its catchy sound bites. This term would be heard in Mortal Kombat 3 when the recipient is low on health and hit by Sub Zero's Ice Ball special move.
What is 'Frosty'?
The Japanese region character names often differ from the rest of world naming schemes. This is the Japanese name for the character known in the west as 'Akuma'.
Who is 'Gouki'?
In this year the King of Fighters tournament video game series began.
What is '1994'?
After surviving being thrown off a cliff by his son Kazuya in Tekken 1, Heihachi Mishima then exacts revenge in the second game by throwing Kazuya into this.
What is a 'volcano'?
This character became a "real" pro-wrestler in the All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion.
Who is "Wolf Hawkfield"?
These two alternative finishing moves were introduced in Mortal Kombat 2.
What are "Babalities" and "Friendships"?
This special move input was introduced to gaming in 'Street Fighter 2'.
What is the 'charge motion'?
(Also acceptable would be the 'rapid button press' or 'button mash' [e.g. hundred hand slap], however this was really a follow on from things like the Final Fight combo string)
The character 'K9999' (pronounced 'Kay Four Nine') was replaced by the character 'Nameless' in the 'Unlimited Match' revision of King of Fighters 2002, due to him being too similar to a character from this famous Anime.
What is 'Akira'?
This entry in the series became the first game on PlayStation 1 to exceed 1 million sales - and gained a Guinness World Record in doing so.
What is 'Tekken 1'?
Virtua Fighter 2 was the first video game to use this animation generation technique, which was previously only used in the medical field.
What is 'motion capture'?
The series mainstay 'Scorpion' was not playable in this mainline entry of the series.
What is "Mortal Kombat 3"?
(He was added back in to the Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 game revision).
This is the full title of the final arcade game in the Street Fighter 2 series, later ported to Playstation 2 and the original XBOX.
What is "Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition"?
This was the first storyline 'Saga' in the series, followed by the 'NESTs' saga, and the 'Ash Crimson' saga.
What is the 'Orochi' saga?
This video game designer listed his top 5 most hated games as 'Tekken 1, Tekken 2, Tekken 3, Tekken 4, and Tekken 5'
Who is 'Tomonobu Itagaki'?
The name of the martial arts tournament featured in the Virtua Fighter series.
What is the "World Fighting Tournament"?
Daniel Pesina, the original digitisation actor for the character Johnny Cage, was used in advertising IN CHARACTER for this rival fighting game, without permission.
What is "Bloodstorm"?
The Street Fighter characters were often given full names due to other media (for instance, Ken received the last name 'Masters' to distinguish his action figure toy from the 'Ken' figure in the Barbie toy line). This is Sagat's first name, given to him in Street Fighter 2: The Movie.
What is 'Viktor'?
This game saw the genre shift to a danmaku (bullet-hell) shooter.
What is "King of Fighters Sky Stage"?
Prior to release, Tekken was originally titled this.
What is 'Rave War'?
The title of the most recent revision of Virtua Fighter 4, only released in Japanese arcades.
What is "Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned"?
This actor was originally offered the role to play the thunder god 'Raiden' in the original Mortal Kombat movie, the part eventually being filled by Christopher Lambert.
Who is 'Sean Connery'?