FX Fighter

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

• Title — FX Fighter • Developer — Argonaut Software • Publisher — GTE Entertainment • Released — June 16, 1995 • Genre — Fighting • Engine — BRender • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — MS-DOS • Composer — Martin Gwynn Jones, Justin Scharvona • Producer — Jerry Albright, Nick Halstead • Programmer — Simon Hargrave, Steve Thompson • Designer — Jaid Mindang, Gary O'Connell

• Illustration — Gameplay screenshot 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.

• Magnon, from Inferno: A primeval volcanic wasteland. • Sheba, from Rhomb: A world of vast savannahs ruled by the highly respected feran monarchy. • Venam, from Peres: A planet dominated by tropical forests and caves. • Jake, from Sentral: Massively overpopulated and polluted industrialized world. • Kiko, from Lusk: Mountainous planet with low technology but a developed culture. • Siren, from Ursae: A water world completely covered by a single ocean. • Ashraf, from Karlak: Temperate planet with an ancient culture. • Cyben, from Axone: A world rich in mineral deposits but with no atmosphere. • Rygil, from Anarchis: A high gravity world owned by the cadre.

FX Fighter was originally conceived as a Super NES titled Fighting Polygon. It was first shown in November 1994 at Nintendo's Shoshinkai Software Exhibition in Japan, using the Super FX 2 chip to deliver polygon graphics, otherwise unattainable on the console. At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in January 1995, GTE Entertainment and Nintendo announced that they would be jointly developing and publishing the game. The game was previewed in GamePro and Nintendo Power. It was compared to Sega's Virtua Fighter. Although the approximately 500 polygons per character was tame compared to Virtua Fighter and Tekken on 32-bit hardware, FX Fighter 's capabilities were still impressive considering the SNES's older 16-bit hardware. After Nintendo decided to port Killer Instinct to the Super NES, FX Fighter was canceled by Nintendo to avoid competition between the two games.

A comic based on the video game was created by Jim Lee of Wildstorm Productions, which was hosted by GTE Interactive Media's web site.

• Title — FX Fighter Turbo • Developer — Argonaut Software • Publisher — GTE Entertainment • Released — November 5, 1996 • Genre — Fighting • Engine — BRender • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Windows 95 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.