20 Old and Forgotten 90s PC MS-DOS Fighting Games
662Arguably the best kind of game to sit back, relax and beat the crap out of a few friends (or AI opponents), fighting games have been a staple in gaming since the early days of Atari. But while a handful of franchises have dominated the field for decades, there are literally dozens of great fighting games from the '90s that are still around today.
While classic old-school fighting games like Street Fighter II Turbo and Tekken 3 are still going strong, for every Mortal Kombat there are plenty of other great retro fighting games that fell by the wayside or have all but faded into gaming obscurity. The 16-bit and 32-bit eras were the best for fighting tournaments, and while the PlayStation 1 had its fair share of great games, the N64 also held its own. And we can't forget the great retro fighting games from Sega and SNES.
But where are the PC fighting games in this retrospective? Well, fighting games have always been associated with arcades and home consoles, it wasn't until the digital era, with services like Steam, GamePass or the Epic Store, that the fighting genre became increasingly popular among PC users.
Before that, in the now distant 1990s, the genre went through a very dark period in which there were practically no fighting games for the MS-DOS PC. Yes, PC users received some ports of iconic games like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat or Primal Rage (with more or less success), and some exclusive games that imitated features of the most beloved sagas by gamers. But it is fair to say that PC users did not have the opportunity to play the games they loved the most.
There are exceptions, of course, and this video is here to discover (or make you remember with nostalgia) those fighting games for MS-DOS PC that would whet our appetite for what years later would be about to expand.
In this video you will find:
• Information related to each game such as release date, developer company, game genre and system it was released on
• Official game box arts with a 3D presentation
• Info regarding average gameplay of every game
• Educative and/or critical comments on the importance of the video game and why you should play it
Intro and Outro Music
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0:00 Intro
0:19 1993 Body Blows PC DOS
0:40 1993 Super Fighter PC DOS
1:05 1994 Rise of the Robots PC DOS
1:30 1994 One Must Fall 2097 PC DOS
1:55 1994 Mortal Kombat II PC DOS
2:20 1994 Dangerous Streets PC DOS
2:45 1995 Savage Warriors PC DOS
3:10 1995 Sango Fighter 2 PC DOS
3:35 1995 Primal Rage PC DOS
4:00 1995 Antagony PC DOS
4:25 1995 Battle Wrath PC DOS
4:50 1995 Super Street Fighter II Turbo PC DOS
5:15 1995 Brutal: Paws of Fury PC DOS
5:41 1995 FX Fighter PC DOS
6:05 1996 Xenophage: Alien BloodSport PC DOS
6:30 1996 Pray for Death PC DOS
6:55 1996 Time Slaughter PC DOS
7:20 1996 Battle Arena Toshinden PC DOS
7:45 1997 X-Men: Children of the Atom PC DOS
8:10 Outro
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