Fighter's History

Fighter's History (ファイターズヒストリー) is a series of fighting games developed and published by Data East. During the release of the first game in the series, it became best known for being responsible for its place in a lawsuit between Capcom U.S.A. and Data East U.S.A., over what Capcom felt were infringements on their Street Fighter II property. Capcom lost the case on grounds that the copied elements were scenes a faire and thus excluded from copyri... more

Fighter's History (ファイターズヒストリー) is a series of fighting games developed and published by Data East. During the release of the first game in the series, it became best known for being responsible for its place in a lawsuit between Capcom U.S.A. and Data East U.S.A., over what Capcom felt were infringements on their Street Fighter II property. Capcom lost the case on grounds that the copied elements were scenes a faire and thus excluded from copyright. In 2003, Data East filed for bankruptcy and sold the Fighter's History franchise along with several other Data East titles to G-Mode. Outside of the Fighter's History series, Makoto Mizoguchi and Liu Yungmie later appeared as special guests in a Japan-exclusive semi-sequel to Data East's 1995 Water Margin-based fighting arcade game, Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty, titled as Suikoenbu Fuun Saiki. Five years after Data East went out of business while giving their video game rights to G-Mode, Paon, WorkJam and Crea-tech, SNK Playmore signed a... less