What was the first fighting game you played?

War Gods for the N64

The original Virtua Fighter in an arcade, I think.

Street Fighter II

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Probably Street Fighter 2 - I've never been a hardcore Fighting game person so I wasn't there on day one and I can't quite recall now. But I still had good times with SF2 and Mortal Kombat back in the day. I've probably spent most of my time in recent years with Soul Calibur series (whatever that says about me, not sure)

Street Fighter II. It was one of the first game I've ever played.

Street Fighter II and maybe it was the turbo edition. Not long after I found MK II and many many many Street Fighter clones.

smash bros.

Probably Street Fighter II.

Primal Rage on the Sega Genesis. It was not fun.

@BranKetra: Played the Arcade version on Midway Arcade Treasures II for PS2. Pretty bad there too.

Mortal Kombat 1. And also I had the SNES version :(

You cannot even block in that game, so battles quickly turn into button mashing. Tekken 2 was a huge improvement, for me.

The original Street Fighter in a local pizzeria in the late 80s. And of course the sequel gobbled up piles of my quarters a few years later.

I have no idea.

It's either Street Fighter II Turbo on the SNES or Mortal Kombat II on the Genesis. It could have been the arcade versions but I'm not sure.

Street fighter 2 at the arcade.

ooof, i have no idea, i want to say MK1 but i ain't sure...

Came here to say this.

@davillain-: hehe all the childeren, ripping the heads of the opponent, good times...

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo for the Snes. Good memories.

Fighting Street on TG-16 kiosk at Montgomery Wards.

karate champ in the arcades was my first, followed by the original street fighter in the arcades. I didn't fall in love with fighting games until street fighter 2.

MK1 on SEGA , ... those good old days

Yie R kung Fu. The original arcade coin operated game. My hardest opponent was "The Fan" an very early Mileena type character who used Japanese fan cutting weapon's to fight. Released in 1985.

Depends, do side scrolling beat 'em ups count? or just pure fighting games? If the latter, then the original SF2 (DOS version - never got to play the arcade version unfortunately, though it was essentially the same game). If the former, not sure if it was double dragon or some other game that I barely remember, I played quite a lot of side scrolling beat 'em up back then.

I believe it was Turtles Tournament Fighters on SNES.

Street Fighter II on SNES.

Mortal Kombat(Genesis Version).

Street Fighter 2.

This, but the Genesis version.

Karate Champ (nes). I always chose the red guy and whip my brother w/ turbo set to max lol

I think it was Mortal Kombat for the Genesis.

Mode B, Double Dragon.

The earliest I could recall trying is probably the original Tekken or Toshinden on PS1.

Karate Champ. Followed after by the first Street Fighter. The owner of a old mom and pop resturant had the best arcade games.

That would be Street Fighter, the original. They had the arcade at the Round Table Pizza by my house in my hometown. I was a little kid and didn't know how to do any moves, so I just mashed all the buttons at once. I'd never seen so many buttons on an arcade machine up to that point, and kinda went crazy every time I touched it.

Either Street Fighter II or the first Mortal Kombat game.

@lucianocasanova: Street Fighter (1), but it wasn't until SF2 that I got into fighting big time.

I did play so called fighting games prior like Boxing on Intellivision or Karate Champ on NES, but those weren't good.

Urban Champion on the Nes. Man, how fighting games have changed!

street fighter 2 was my first game

Street Fighter 2 on pc

Karate Champ on NES. Even back when I was a little kid I knew it sucked:)

The very first game I played is contra in a family computer with a childhood friend's house. And its also his first console game

super smash bros! my old schoolmates had their own copies when we were kids. i would rarely go over to their houses back in the day and play it with them! now my bro has a copy and me and my bro would go at it in the game with he, our mom, and our little sister. those are the days. :D :)

Mortal Kombat 2

@ayanami000: Yeah, but the question was what was the first fighting game you played, not first game.

Probably Smash Bros Melee but since whether or not that's really a fighting game is up in the air, I'll say Soul Calibur II, which is still a great game today. I wish fighting games these days had as much content in both singleplayer and multiplayer as SCII does.

I'm pretty sure it was Killer Instinct on the SNES. I was good at it back then.

Mortal Kombat 2 is the earliest one I remember.

Street Fighter.