FX Fighter

Nintendo console exclusive

FX Fighter is a video game developed by Argonaut Games and released by GTE Entertainment in 1995. It was an early realtime 3D fighting game to be developed for the PC. The game was also being developed for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but eventually only the PC CD-ROM version for MS-DOS was released.

Released: 24 June 1995
Platforms: MS-DOS SNES
Genres: Fighting
Developers: Argonaut Games
Publishers: GTE Interactive Media
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action Science fiction
Engine: Argonaut Games, BRender
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: USK 12 ESRB T
Languages: English

About

FX Fighter is a 3D fighting game for MS-DOS. It was developed by Argonaut Software and published by GTE Entertainment in June 1995. It is an early realtime 3D fighter, originally meant for Super NES using the Super FX chip, on which Argonaut was collaborating together with Nintendo. OEM versions have support for 3D acceleration, bundled with 3D graphics accelerator cards such as the Diamond Monster 3D. A sequel, FX Fighter Turbo, was released in 1996.

This game has no relation to Hudson Soft's cancelled FX Fighter for PC-FX, which was conceived around the same time.

Keywords

shared screen
boss fight
platform change
super fx

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The game features 8 different characters, 8 different arenas, movie cutscenes, and 40 attacks per fighter. The player selects a character to face against 8 of the best fighters in the universe, with the prize being the most powerful weapon in the universe.

Reception

For the launch of FX Fighter, GTE Entertainment shipped 200,000 units to stores and dedicated more than $2 million to its promotional campaign.

Entertainment Weekly gave the PC version an A− and wrote that the game was as good as any that was offered on home consoles, but remarked that playing games on a television screen was better than a computer screen.

Legacy

FX Fighter Turbo is a sequel released for Windows 95 in 1996 with new characters, moves, environments, costumes, special effects, network play, and support the S3 Graphics chipset. It was influenced by the fatalities in Mortal Kombat.