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  2. Virtua Fighter 3 - Wikipedia

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    Virtua Fighter 3 [b] is a 1996 fighting video game developed and published by Sega, the sequel to 1994's Virtua Fighter 2 as part of the Virtua Fighter series. Released originally in arcades, Virtua Fighter 3 was the first arcade game to run on the Sega Model 3 system board. The use of this new hardware gave the game revolutionary graphics for ...

  3. Street Fighter III - Wikipedia

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    As well, the player cannot perform aerial guards like in the Street Fighter Alpha series, which are replaced by parrying ("blocking" in the Japanese version). [7] The 1994 fighting game Samurai Shodown II is often credited with the first parry system. The main new feature is the ability to parry an opponent's attack, by deflecting any incoming ...

  4. Capoeira - Wikipedia

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    The term jogo de capoeira (capoeira game) is used to describe the art in the performative context. [13] Although debated, the most widely accepted origin of the word capoeira comes from the Tupi words ka'a ("forest") paũ ("round"), [15] referring to the areas of low vegetation in the Brazilian interior where fugitive slaves would hide.

  5. Eddy Gordo - Wikipedia

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    The Tekken 3 development team wanted to include a Capoeira practitioner for Tekken 3 and turned to the development artists to create the character. It was desired by Masahiro Kimoto, one of the game designers of Tekken 3, that the Capoeira character be female but the artist that was tasked with the character's design deemed the female character too difficult to create and instead created Eddy.

  6. Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Wikipedia

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    Street Fighter Alpha 3, released as Street Fighter Zero 3 [a] in Japan, Asia, South America, and Oceania, is a 1998 fighting game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the third and final installment in the Street Fighter Alpha sub-series, which serves as a sequel to Street Fighter Alpha 2 , and ran on the same CP System II ...

  7. Capoeira in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Elena, an African woman, was envisioned to have long arms and legs, and capoeira was chosen as a suitable fighting style for her. [16] The Fatal Fury series features two capoeira fighters, Richard Meyer and Bob Wilson. Zone 4, an online martial arts game, includes capoeira as a playable fighter's type. [17] Other games featuring capoera include:

  8. Christie Monteiro - Wikipedia

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    Christie Monteiro (Japanese: クリスティ・モンテイロ, Hepburn: Kurisuti Monteiro) is a character in the Tekken video game series of 3D fighting games. A Brazilian fighter who uses the fighting style, capoeira. She is the granddaughter of a legendary capoeira master who taught Eddy Gordo the art of capoeira in prison. After Eddy Gordo ...

  9. List of fighting games - Wikipedia

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    Boxing games go back further than any other kind of fighting game, starting with Sega's Heavyweight Champ in 1976, the game often called the first video game to feature hand-to-hand fighting. Fighters wear boxing gloves and fight in rings , and fighters can range from actual professional boxers to aliens to Michael Jackson .