But, they recommended the game even for people that didn’t watch the show, and when I found it at a GameStop for 20 bucks I decided to give it a shot. I found out about it in a Magazine (printed back then) called “Club Nintendo”, written by guys older than me that saw Naruto as a kiddy show with no substance. Sure, I was really into Dragon Ball and Ranma 1/2 in the 90s, and Manga such as Slam Dunk and Love Hina kept me up at night.īy the time Naruto came along and I was watching anime on the Internet like Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Azumanga Daioh, and Death Note, I never really cared about the orange kid ninja. Let me start by saying that I am not a Naruto fan.

Melee (Nintendo – 2001)ĥ Best Fighting Games On The Nintendo GameCube Naruto Clash of the Ninja 2 (D3 Publisher – 2006) Def Jam: Fight for NY (EA Games – 2004).Naruto Clash of the Ninja 2 (D3 Publisher – 2006).5 Best Fighting Games On The Nintendo GameCube.So, let’s take a look at the best fighting games to play on Nintendo’s first disc-based console. Melee alone gave me a thousand hours of play before Brawl launched on the Wii. So, here comes the GameCube in 2001, and while it doesn’t have as many new fighting games as its competition (PS2 had games like Tekken Tag Team Tournament 2 and Guilty Gear XX, while Xbox had Dead or Alive) Nintendo’s little blue box did have a handful of really fun titles that gave us hundreds of hours of fun. Sadly, by the 2000s the PS2 came along and we started seeing a decline in the arcade fighters of the 90s, the Street Fighter games never got a huge base of players like Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and The King of Fighters never topped what they did with KOF ’98 in the Neo-Geo.

Starting with the Street Fighter craze in 1991, we got into a 2nd Golden Age of Arcades and everybody wanted a little piece of the pie Capcom had, so we got a lot of 2D 1 on 1 franchises, like Mortal Kombat and Fatal Fury, 3D fighting games like Tekken and Virtua Fighter, and weapon based games such as Samurai Shodown and Soul Edge. The ’90s were a great time to be a fighting game fan.

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