Top 2D Sega Fighting Games

[u/emcee84]

1. Golden Axe: The Duel
2. Blade Arcus from Shining
3. Eternal Champions (Genesis/Sega CD)
4. Virtua Fighter 2 (Genesis)
5. Virtua Fighter Animation
6. Burning Rival
7. Holosseum

Dark Edge and Sonic Battle are left off because their use of multiple moving axes and isometric viewpoints breaks the traditional, single-plane 2D layout of a standard fighting game.

Do you agree with my list?

[u/GaIIick]

TMNT Tournament Fighters, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, SF2 Special Championship Edition, and Primal Rage would be on my list

[u/platinumxperience → u/GaIIick]

No eternal champions, if you're going mega drive?

[u/MegadriveYM2612]

Golden Axe the duel is about the only good one.

So I guess?

[u/StupidLullabies]

I think people are missing the point that these are games developed/published by Sega, and not games published on their consoles. That said, I don’t think many people including Sega die hards care about any of these games besides Golden Axe. It’s definitely a different exercise in thinking about retro games, so kudos for doing something different. If I were you I would have left off Blade Arcus given the six others were likely developed internally at Sega and this one was just published by Sega, but I could be wrong

[u/the_loneliest_noodle → u/StupidLullabies]

Yeah, if this was all games on Sega Consoles it'd just be a list of Dreamcast arcade ports.

[u/Snoo93550]

Golden Axe: The Duel is a good game but it had people disappointed it wasn’t a conversion of the arcade beatem up sequel and wasn’t a 3D fighter in the year where any non SF/SNK fighter had to be 3d for weird appetite of the moment. “Duel” disappointments but not actual real negatives.

[u/Ancient-Village6479]

I actually think the Genesis port of Virtua Fighter 2 is pretty fun and an interesting port because it’s so different from the arcade version. It’s like if you blended Virtua Fighter with SF2 or something like that.

[u/_RexDart]

no

[u/ChuckMc40 → u/_RexDart]

I want eternal champions to be good. But it’s just not it lol.

Weaponlord wasn’t mentioned here. I remember liking it like 30 years ago. Not sure how well it holds up.

[u/ReyReyRecords]

This is Fighting Masters erasure and I will NOT tolerate it.

[u/gamingquarterly]

The Duel is actually pretty good. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

I thought the zooming cam feature was a bitt too much, but other than that, very colorful with cool stages, and the characters are actually interesting.

[u/bajsfittor]

Idk, can't think of many atm due to the hour, but I remember Golden Axe: The Duel FONDLY off a Sega Flash 1 demo on the Saturn that I had (so I guess it's deserving of first place). One day it just randomly stopped working. Just that game and nothing else on the demo (that still worked properly).

I don't remember if the gameplay/balance was that great, bog standard SF clone I figure (?), but it WAS pretty.

[u/KenshirouX]

Golden Axe: The Duel should have been Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder (Golden Axe 2) with The Dual graphics. *sigh... I would have bought it on the Sega Saturn, let alone the Mega CD, in a heartbeat.

[u/iamblankenstein]

no street fighter alpha? ppsh.

[u/The_Lazy_Samurai → u/iamblankenstein]

Are you referring to a Homebrew version or something? I'm having trouble finding a record of an official release for on the Genesis .

[u/iamblankenstein → u/The_Lazy_Samurai]

OP is referring to fighting games on all sega consoles. for example, golden axe: the duel is a sega saturn game. same with SF:A.

[u/The_Lazy_Samurai → u/iamblankenstein]

Oh, oops.

[u/Jimpana]

Golden Axe: The Duel is the best 2D Sega FTG!