Galaxy Fight (Sega Saturn)

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After Street Fighter II was released in 1992, there followed an endless procession of fighting games. In addition to the endless Street Fighter II enhancements and sequels, Mortal Kombat games and seemingly unlimited supply of SNK fighters for Neo Geo hardware, there were many more obscure fighting games as well. Galaxy Fight is one of those.


Galaxy Fight was originally released as an arcade game, not surprisingly on Neo Geo hardware, in 1995. The only other home conversion was for the Sega Saturn. Galaxy Fight has the usual array of characters, moves and special moves that you would expect of a 2D fighter.


The concept behind Galaxy Fight is a galaxy wide fighting tournament with characters from all over the galaxy. I guess that concept makes it pretty easy to have some pretty varied characters. There are a total of eight playable characters including characters that look like monsters, aliens, robots and more.


Galaxy Fight received pretty average reviews overall. There was nothing particularly wrong with it but it just didn't stand out in a deluge of similar games. However, if you are a 2D fighter aficionado then I don't see why you wouldn't want to check it out. The Saturn version was based off of an unreleased Neo Geo CD version of the game. In addition to tracking down an original Neo Geo or Sega Saturn version, this game was also released as part of Arcade Archives for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in 2017. And of course there are also various emulation options.


There were no direct sequels to Galaxy Fight but Sunsoft did release another game a year later called Waku Waku 7. It used the same game engine and was similar in quite a few other way, including having a Galactic theme. Waku Waku 7 was released only in Japan.

Screen shots above are from the Sega Saturn version of the game.

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So many fighting games, but so much fun can be had with them. I always loved when my family went to dinner when I was 12.. they had a neo Geo arcade machine so I jumped onto Fatal Fury but also the Doctor Who pinball machine they had.
MK and Street Fighter are always solid, played a lot more MK as a kid but I am so bad at it as an adult and not getting enough time into playing the originals haha.

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This would have been a little bit earlier but my family used to occasionally go to a Mexican restaurant that had a Nintendo Play Choice 10. I played a lot of Excite Bike that way. No fighting games though. I used to be ok at Street Fighter II but I was at an arcade that had SF2 the other day and realized I had forgotten all of the moves...

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I love all these old games that are still holding up so well, because yes, you can tell it's from many years ago, but it has that very righteous retro feel that still makes it enjoyable today, even playably, from what I see in the gif.

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