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Fighting game refers to a genre of action video game where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with another character. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as blocking, counter-attacking, and chaining together sequences of attacks known as "combos". Since the early 1990s, most fighting games allow the player to execute special attacks by performing specific button combinations.

Fighting games are a type of action game where two on-screen characters fight one-on-one. games typically feature special moves that are triggered by rapid sequences of carefully-timed button presses and joystick movements. Fighters are traditionally shown from a side-view, even as the genre has progressed from two-dimensional (2D) to three-dimensional (3D) graphics. Though it was not the first fighting game, the conventions of the genre were popularized and standardized by Street Fighter II, and similar games released prior to Street Fighter II have since been more explicitly classified as fighting games. Fighting games typically involve hand-to-hand combat, but games featuring one-on-one battles using weapons are also considered part of the genre.

This genre is distinct from beat 'em ups, another action genre involving combat, where the player character must fight many weaker enemies at the same time. However, during the 1980s publications used the terms "fighting game" and "beat 'em up" interchangeably, along with other terms such as "martial arts simulation" (or more specific terms such as "judo simulator"). With hindsight, critics have argued that the two types of game gradually became dichotomous as they evolved, though the two terms may still be conflated.[3][9]

Fighting games are sometimes grouped with games that feature boxing or wrestling. However, serious boxing games belong more to the sports game genre than the action game genre, as they aim for a more realistic model of boxing techniques whereas moves in fighting games tend to be highly exaggerated models of Asian martial arts techniques. As such, boxing games and wrestling games are often described as distinct genres, without no comparison to fighting games