is a
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produced by
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originally released in as a
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. The arcade version was planned by game designer Akira Nishitani (Nin-Nin) and character designer
Akira Yasudais a Japanese animator, character designer, game designer and mecha designer, who works under the pen name "Akiman".-Career:...
(Akiman), who both later worked on Capcoms landmark
head-to-head fighting gameFighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in one-on-one close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena...
Street Fighter IIis a series in Capcom's Street Fighter saga of head-to-head fighting games, originally released as coin-operated arcade games. The Street Fighter II series started with the Street Fighter II game itself, released in as a sequel to Capcoms fighting game Street Fighter.Street Fighter II improved...
. Many home versions of
Final Fight have been produced since its initial release.
Plot
Final Fight is set in the
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al American city of Metro City "sometime in the 1990s" (1989 in the Japanese arcade version). The story centers around the kidnapping of the newly-elected Mayor's daughter, Jessica, by the dominant street gang in the city known as Mad Gear, which seeks to bring the Mayor under their control. The Mayor, a former
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named
Mike Haggar, also known simply as Haggar, is a fictional character in the Final Fight series of video games. Haggar first appeared in Final Fight and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in the Saturday Night Slam Masters series of video games and various other video game appearances...
, refuses to give in to the gang's demands and sets out to rescue his daughter with the help of her boyfriend, a martial artist named Cody, and his friend, a modern-day Bushin ninja named Guy.
Gameplay
Final Fight is an archetypal side scrolling beat-em-up game. One or two player characters move from left to right through each level (most of which are split into 3 or more scenes), fighting with the enemy characters who appear, until they reach a confrontation with a stronger boss character at the end of the level. Once that boss is beaten, the players automatically move on to the next stage. Enemies appear from both sides of the screen and from out of doorways or entrances set into the background, and the player(s) must defeat all of them to progress. If the players try to simply travel through the levels without fighting, the screen will stop scrolling until all current enemies have been defeated, before allowing the players to continue progress. Enemies may move outside the confines of the screen, but players may not. There is a time limit to each stage.
Stages
There are six stages in
Final Fight, through which the player must advance in order to get to the location at which Jessica is being held captive. These stages include the Slums, the Subway, the Westside District, the Industrial Area, the Bay Area, and Uptown Metro City.
Main characters
Final Fight features a strong/fast/average character trinity:
- Cody is the well-balanced member of the group in both speed and power and that he can use knives for close-range combat against his enemies.
- Haggar
, also known simply as Haggar, is a fictional character in the Final Fight series of video games. Haggar first appeared in Final Fight and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in the Saturday Night Slam Masters series of video games and various other video game appearances...
is the strongest, yet slowest member of the group, in which he can inflict huge damage against his opponents while using wrestling techniques such as a suplex and a pile driver. He is ranked third in Electronic Gaming Monthly’s list of the top ten video game politicians.
- Guy is the fastest, yet weakest member of the group, in which he can unleash fast punches against his opponents and use an off-the-wall kick to knock them down.
Underlings
- Simons, Bred, Jake and Dug
- The typical thug enemies seen in the game. They attack using either a standard punch or kick. Simons and Jake are the only ones who can do a small jump kick.
- A pair of thugs who wear color shades and trenchcoats. They attack the player with quick punches, often using their speed to either attack or dodge the player. Two. P was modeled after the Player 2 character from Forgotten Worlds
Forgotten Worlds, originally titled for its arcade release in Japan, is a side-scrolling shooting game released for the arcades by Capcom. It is the first game released for CP System hardware...
, hence the name "Two.P" (or 2P).
- A pair of biker enemies who can block the player's attack and retaliate with either a double axe handle or a kick. Named after Axl Rose and Slash of Guns N' Roses
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.
- Wong Who, G. Oriber, and Bill Bull
- A trio of fat men who attack the player with a charging headbutt, a standing headbutt or a kick.
- A pair of agility fighters who uses sliding kick attacks and acrobatic knife slashing. A red-clad version of Holly Wood also appears in the game who throws molotov cocktail
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s.
- Poison
is a fictional character in the Final Fight and Street Fighter series of video games. Created by Akira Yasuda for Capcom, Poison first appeared in Final Fight alongside a similar character, Roxy, later appearing in Capcom-produced games, media and merchandise related to the Street Fighter franchise...
and Roxy
- A pair of shemale
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s who uses acrobatic high-heel kicks. In the English localization of the SNES and GBA ports, Poison and Roxy were redesigned into two male punks named Billy and Sid.
- A family of pro-wrestlers modeled after contemporary wrestler André the Giant
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. Their special attacks include a charging smash, a piledriver, and a jumping body smash against a downed opponent. The siblings Andore and Andore Jr. appear thorough most of the game as regular enemies, while Father Andore and Grandfather Andore appear exclusively as sub-bosses in the second area of the West Side stage. Uncle Andore also appears if a second player is present.
Bosses
- Damnd (Thrasher in the SNES and Sega CD ports)
- The boss of the Slum stage. A Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts...
thug who serves as Mad Gears informat. He summons his underlings to help him out when he's in danger. Damnd also uses a flying cannonball-style attack.
- Sodom (Katana in the SNES and Sega CD ports)
- The boss of the Subway stage. An American Japanophile who wears a blue kabuto helmet and samurai attire. He attacks wielding a pair of Masamune
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swords. He is noted for possessing a ridiculously high defense, due in part to his armor, so the player must get in close somehow and use grab moves to defeat him.
- The boss of the West Side stage. A corrupt Metro City police officer who happens to be a double agent of Mad Gear. He attacks using his nightstick, and will resort to using his gun when almost defeated.
- The boss of the Industrial Area stage. A former member of the Red Beret special forces unit. He attacks using a mixture of his military baton, jumping kicks, and grenade tossing. If close, Rolento can also use his own throwing move against the player. Rolento also moves so fast that he has shadow-images following him wherever he goes. When low on health he will constantly run around and throw grenades, eventually blowing himself up when defeated.
- The boss of the Bayside stage. A street brawler who has a bad temper in battle. He prefers brute force to technique, using various punch attacks, and grabbing his foe to chuck them high into the air. When he gets real angry, his face turns red and he charges against the player with a high-damaging punch.
- The final boss of the game. A wheelchair-bound millionaire who happens to be the secret leader of Mad Gear. He comes into the last fight of the stage while holding Jessica captive in his lap. The player must throw Belger off his wheelchair so that Jessica can get to safety before the battle against Belger, whose specialty lies from his cross-bow attacks. In the SNES and Sega CD versions of the game, Belger's wheelchair was changed into an office chair.
Development
Yoshiki Okamoto cites the arcade version of
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as his basis for
Final Fight, stating that he liked the concept of a game involving street gangs, but was "unimpressed" by the gameplay.
Final Fight was originally shown at trade shows under the title of
Street Fighter '89. According to Okamoto, the sales division of Capcom originally requested for a
Street Fighter sequel, so his team decided to promote
Final Fight as a
Street Fighter sequel at trade shows (going as far to refer to one of the main characters as a "former Street Fighter"). The title was changed to
Final Fight before its official release after feedback from operators stating that the game was nothing like
Street Fighter.
The street gang the player faces in the game, the Mad Gear Gang, takes their name from a 1987 overhead racing game by Capcom of the same name. The game was released as
Led Storm outside Japan.
SNES
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after being hit. The SNES and GBA versions, center, replaced Poison with an entirely different character named Billy. In the Sega CD version on the right, Poison has a complete redesign. She wears a longer tank top and longer shorts to make her less revealing. |
An initial port of
Final Fight for the
Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemThe Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
was released as a launch title for the console in
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(December 21, 1990) and later in
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(November 11, 1991) and then in
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and
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(December 10, 1992). The 2-player cooperative feature was removed, turning the game into a strictly single-player experience; the Industrial Area level, along with its boss Rolento, were removed; and Guy, one of the main characters, was omitted, leaving Cody and Haggar as the remaining playable characters. Due to the SNES' limited power, only three enemy sprites could be on screen at once (as opposed to seven in the arcade original) making this port easier and less hectic.
The English localization underwent considerable changes for the game's international releases as well. The first two bosses, Damnd and Sodom, were renamed Thrasher and Katana respectively. Belger's wheelchair was redrawn to look like an office chair. Poison and Roxy were replaced with two male punks named Billy and Sid. All alcoholic references were removed, with "bar" signs becoming "club," while two health-recovering items, Whiskey and
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, became
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and
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respectively. A punk's statement of "Oh! My God" (when his car is destroyed) was changed to "Oh! My Car." Also, the blood splash effect when a character is stabbed is replaced by a generic explosion.
A revised version of the SNES port, titled
Final Fight Guy, was released on March 20, in Japan. This version replaces Cody with Guy as a selectable character (with changes to the game's plot explaining Cody's absence) and features several subtle changes from the original port and added features such as new
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s, although the Industrial Area stage and the multiplayer cooperative mode were still missing from this version. An American version of the game (featuring the same changes in the localization as in the first game) was released in June , but as a rental-only game available at Blockbuster stores.
The SNES version of
Final Fight was released for the
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s
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service in .
Sega CD
The Sega CD version, titled
Final Fight CD, was ported and published by
Segais a multinational video game software and hardware development company, and a home computer and console manufacturer headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan...
under license from Capcom in 1993. This version retains nearly all the features of the arcade game which were removed in the SNES port, adding
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to the game's cut-scenes, an arranged soundtrack and an exclusive time attack mode. Like the SNES version, the game also underwent some censorship in its English localization, with many of the same changes made in this version. Poison and Roxy were kept this time, but were redrawn with longer tank-tops and longer shorts to make them less-revealing.
Game Boy Advance
The
Game Boy AdvanceThe Game Boy Advance is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color...
version, titled
Final Fight One, was released in 2001 as one of the earliest games for the system.
Final Fight One features all three characters and the Industrial Area stage that was missing from the SNES version. 2-Player cooperative gameplay is also featured via link cable. Dialogue exchanges prior to each boss battle have been added and the
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renditions of Cody and Guy are featured as hidden characters. The English localization of the game still replaced Poison and Roxy with Billy and Sid, although little else was changed (Damnd and Sodom kept their original names this time).
Other versions
- U.S. Gold
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released ports of Final Fight for the AmigaThe Amiga was a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer. Commodore International bought Amiga Corporation and introduced the machine to the market in 1985...
, Atari STThe Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s. It was released by Atari Corporation in 1985...
, Commodore 64The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January, 1982. Volume production started sometime in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$ 595...
, ZX SpectrumThe ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, the machine was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the...
and Amstrad CPCThe Amstrad CPC is a series of 8 bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-'80s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself, especially in the UK and the rest of...
in EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
in . These ports were developed by Creative Materials.
- A port for the Sharp X68000
The Sharp X68000, often referred to as the X68k, is a home computer released only in Japan by the Sharp Corporation. The first model was released in 1987, with a 10 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, 1 MB of RAM and no hard drive; the last model was released in 1993 with a 25 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU, 4 MB of...
computer platform was released by Capcom in Japan only on July 17, . This version is a relatively close conversion of the arcade game, with the only notable changes being different music due to different sound chip and a slightly reduced number of on-screen enemies.
- An 8-bit version was released in for the NES
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titled Mighty Final FightMighty Final Fight is a beat 'em up released by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. It is based on the 1989 arcade game Final Fight, but is not exactly a port of the game...
. The game is not a strict port of the arcade game, but a different take on the same concept, featuring child-like "super deformedSuper deformed or SD is a specific style of Japanese caricature where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads, to make them resemble small children....
" character designs and an RPG-like character build-up feature.
- Final Fight is included in the compilation Capcom Classics Collection Volume 1
Capcom Classics Collection is a compilation of arcade games released by Capcom for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox on September 27, 2005. It was developed by Digital Eclipse Software . A second volume, Capcom Classics Collection Vol...
for the PlayStation 2The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony. The PS2 console is the sequel to the original PlayStation console. The successor to the PlayStation, and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2 forms part of the PlayStation series of video game...
and XboxThe Xbox is a video game console produced by Microsoft. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and Nintendo's GameCube...
, and in the portable version Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for the PlayStation PortableThe PlayStation Portable is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...
. The game is emulated from the original CP System arcade version and features very little differences from the arcade game. The compilation includes tips, character profiles, an art gallery and a sound test as bonus features.
- The arcade version is also included as a hidden feature in the game Final Fight: Streetwise
Final Fight: Streetwise is a 3D beat-'em-up produced by Capcom, released in North America and the PAL region for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in . It is a sequel to the original Final Fight developed by the American team of Capcom Production Studio 8...
for the PS2 and Xbox. However, the emulation in this version was programmed by Ultracade, rather than Digital EclipseBackbone Entertainment is an independent video game development company in Emeryville, California;...
(the developers of Capcom Classics Collection series).
Sequels
Final Fight was followed by two
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s for the SNES:
Final Fight 2Final Fight 2 is a fighting action game released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. A sequel to the coin-operated arcade game Final Fight , Final Fight 2 was developed by Capcoms consumer division for the SNES with no preceding arcade version released.-Plot:Time has passed...
in 1993 and
Final Fight 3Final Fight 3, released in Japan as , is a beat 'em up released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the second sequel to Final Fight released for the Super NES, following Final Fight 2, and like its predecessor, it was produced by Capcoms consumer division with no...
(
Final Fight Tough in Japan) in 1995. These games were produced specifically for the home console market by Capcom's consumer division with no preceding arcade versions. An NES game entitled
Mighty Final FightMighty Final Fight is a beat 'em up released by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. It is based on the 1989 arcade game Final Fight, but is not exactly a port of the game...
was released for the
Nintendo Entertainment SystemThe Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan , China, Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines, it was released as the , commonly abbreviated as the...
and featured cartoonish versions of the
Final Fight characters. An American-produced 3D
fighting gameFighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in one-on-one close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena...
spinoff,
Final Fight RevengeFinal Fight Revenge is a 3D head-to-head fighting game released in as a coin-operated arcade game for the Sega ST-V hardware. A home version for the Sega Saturn was released in Japan on March 30, , which was the last Capcom game officially released for the platform....
, was released for Sega's Titan arcade hardware in 1999, which was followed by a home version for the
Sega SaturnThe is a 32-bit video game console that was first released on November 22 1994 in Japan, May 11 1995 in North America, and July 8 1995 in Europe...
in Japan only. A second American-produced spinoff titled
Final Fight: StreetwiseFinal Fight: Streetwise is a 3D beat-'em-up produced by Capcom, released in North America and the PAL region for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in . It is a sequel to the original Final Fight developed by the American team of Capcom Production Studio 8...
, released in 2006 for the
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and
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, was a 3D take on the game.
Appearances in other games
The character Mike Haggar is featured as a wrestler in
Saturday Night Slam MastersSaturday Night Slam Masters, known in Japan as , is a 1993 pro wrestling arcade game released for the CP System by Capcom. The game features character designs by manga artist Tetsuo Hara....
and its two sequels,
Muscle Bomber Duo and
Slam Masters II: Ring of Destruction. A few
Final Fight characters would also re-emerge as playable characters in later
Street Fighter games: Guy and Sodom appeared in
Street Fighter Alpha in , followed by Rolento in
Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia, South America and Spain, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is a sequel to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter II...
in and Cody in
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in . Hugo, a character modeled after Andore, debuted in
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in as a playable character, with Poison as his manager.
In other media
The American
Street FighterStreet Fighter is an American animated series produced by InVision Entertainment based on the Street Fighter video game franchise. The series aired as part of the USA Network's Cartoon Express and Action Extreme Team lineups...
animated series featured an episode based on
Final Fight and titled after the game, which aired during the shows second season. Adapting the plot of the game, the "Final Fight" episode centered around Cody and Guy teaming up with leading
Street Fighter characters
Ryuis a video game character created by Capcom, from the Street Fighter series. Premiering in the first Street Fighter, Ryu appears as the lead character from the game along with his best friend Ken participating in the Street Fighter tournament. Further games from the series show Ryu to be highly...
and Ken to rescue Jessica from the Mad Gear Gang. Although, Guy and Cody were both characters in the
Street Fighter series, the episode actually predates Cody's first appearance in the series as a playable character in
Street Fighter Alpha 3 and depicts him in his character design from
Final Fight.
The
Street Fighter II Turbo comic book by
UDON EntertainmentUDON Entertainment Corporation is a studio of Asian-influenced comic book creators which provides creative services to the entertainment industry. The company is also a publisher of comic books, graphic novels, and art books, as well as English editions of Japanese manga and Korean manhwa titles....
will feature a supplemental story arc spanning issues 6 and 7 centering around the
Final Fight characters who were featured in the
Street Fighter series.
Similar games
Since the release of
Final Fight, Capcom has produced several similar beat-em-ups for its CPS and CPS II arcade hardware. These include
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,
Knights of the Round and
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in ,
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and
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in ,
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and
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in ,
Alien vs. Predator and
Armored WarriorsArmored Warriors, known in Japan as , is a mecha-themed fighting action game released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game for their CP System II hardware...
in ,
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in and
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in . The SNES games
X-Men: Mutant ApocalypseX-Men: Mutant Apocalypse is a 1994 action game by Capcom released for the SNES in which the X-Men must rescue mutants from captivity in the Genosha island complex. Each X-Man has a specific mission he or she must accomplish. Professor X issues an order which the X-Men must complete to finish their...
and
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were also influenced by
Final Fight.
Reception
In the February 1991 issue of the Japanese coin-operated video game magazine
Gamest,
Final Fight took No. 1 spot as Best Game of 1990 in the 4th Annual Grand Prize.
Final Fight also won the category of Best Action Game, placed No. 4 in Best Video Game Music, No. 9 in Best Graphics, No. 2 in Best Direction, and No. 5 in Best Album. The character
Mike Haggar, also known simply as Haggar, is a fictional character in the Final Fight series of video games. Haggar first appeared in Final Fight and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in the Saturday Night Slam Masters series of video games and various other video game appearances...
was displayed on the cover of this issue, who took the No. 1 spot in the Top 50 Characters of the year, with Guy in second place, Cody at No. 7,
Poisonis a fictional character in the Final Fight and Street Fighter series of video games. Created by Akira Yasuda for Capcom, Poison first appeared in Final Fight alongside a similar character, Roxy, later appearing in Capcom-produced games, media and merchandise related to the Street Fighter franchise...
at No. 26, Sodom at No. 33, and Jessica at No. 40.
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