Finish Mortal Kombat II

Digitised fighters and fatalities; the game that created the ESRB.

A run button, dial-a-combo chains and no ninjas, which Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 put back the same year.

The series turns to polygons in 1997, with a weapon each fighter can draw, drop and lose.

Ryu, Chun-Li and the hadouken; the fighting game that filled arcades in 1991.

The first 3D fighting game, all polygons and precise timing.

Eddy Gordo, Jin Kazama and the arcade fighter of the PlayStation era.

Ryu tours ten fighters in 1987, on a cabinet whose two pressure pads read how hard you hit them.

One button per limb, eight fighters and eight sub-bosses; Namco answer Virtua Fighter in 1994.