1995 · Freeware · Fighting · Sports

Little Fighter

The first game of the series. A freeware non story brawler where you can choose from a wide array of characters

Released: 31 December 1995
Platforms: MS-DOS
Genres: Fighting Sports Beat 'em up
Developers: Freeware
Publishers: Freeware

About

Little Fighter 2 (LF2, Chinese: 小朋友齊打交2) is a freeware PC fighting game for Windows and is the sequel to the game Little Fighter. Little Fighter 2 was created by Marti Wong and Starsky Wong in 2000. The first version (0.1) was released on 25 January 2000 and the full complete 1.0 version was released later that same year. The game received a long series of updates afterwards.

The game supports up to 4 human players on one computer and a total of 8 characters using online play or computer-controlled opponents. Characters are controlled using the keyboard or a gamepad. All keys can be custom set via a configuration menu.

Keywords

baseball
magic
hand-to-hand combat
brawler
freeware
good vs evil
special attacks
healer
heal over time
black magic

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Little Fighter 2 is a fighting game. Each player chooses a character that comes with unique abilities. Attacking another character causes the attacked player to lose HP (health points), represented by a red bar on the heads-up display. Each character also has special attacks that can be activated by pressing a certain combination of keys. Most of these special attacks use up MP (mana points), represented by a blue bar on the heads-up display.

Occasionally, items may fall from above into the screen to assist players. Items range from a bottle of beer/milk, restores mana/health to a variety of weapons that can be used in combat. These include knives, baseballs, boulders, boxes, and baseball bats. All weapons take damage in combat and will eventually break.

Reception

The November 2007 edition of PC World magazine described the game as addictive and easy to play.

Legacy

Hero Fighter is a free web-based beat 'em up created solely by Marti Wong. This game is still under development but an alpha version was released in the end of July 2009. The game has seven characters: Drew, a boxer good at close range; Lucas, a swordsman who is a balanced all-rounder; Shawn, an archer; Jenny, a defensive spear-wielding fighter (introduced in Version 1.04); Gordon, a mid ranged axe-fighter (introduced in Version 1.05); Jason, a boomerang and dagger thrower; and Taylor, a magician specialises in healing and creating clones.

Little Fighter Online (also known as LFO, Chinese: 小朋友齊打交 Online) was developed and published by U1 Technology under direction from Oscar Chu and Marti Wong. It's based on Little Fighter 2 and was popular at launch in Hong Kong, but has shown a rapid decline in popularity since. The game servers started operation on 22 October 2004 and closed on 27 January 2016. Players complained about bugs, lags and susceptible to players cheating.