Man, western gamers and reviewers were narrow-minded buffoons back then as to be “confused” with this game. I remember lots of kids talking about it in school and reading GameFan magazine as they were excited about playing it.
Editors troll, it's whAt they do. Top hat likes to fish up these old critics as if we ever cared back then. We bought the magazines for walkthroughs and previews not for reviews lol.
@@thomasbeall9069 Yup, I actually would have got Pocket Fighter for the sega saturn back then if the import store I went to had carried it. I didn't care for any of the negative reviews I saw for it since most of the game reviews were garbage.
This game is always fun and charming. I’ve always loved all of the references hiding in the background. To me, this is when capcom still really cared about their game universe
Remember when Capcom games were bright, celebrating their franchise history and made us laugh? Tatsunoko vs Capcom, puzzle fighter and this game shows how it's done!
Tatsunoko vs Capcom was one of the reasons I wanted a Wii. When I was young it was called Battle of the planets and we had no idea what anime meant. Probably had nothing to do with the original but I still liked it.
The 30th anniversary is missing all kinds of games from the start, ones such as: - Hyper Street Fighter II - Street Fighter Alpha 2 GOLD - Street Fighter Alpha 3 UPPER - Final Fight
@@songoku9348 Sorry to intrude but all the games Ken mentioned are CPS1 and 2 games. Capcom Fighting Jam/Evolution is the Naomi game that Curby mentioned. Sorry for the scrutiny.
its not butchering at art style is just different and its a side story to boot the SD or Chibi games are just pure fun and that Gamespot review/article is rubbish
He looks up old criticism and basically uses them to troll the game. Does it every video he makes. He is a click baiter and essentially trolls for views.
@Porfirio Rubirosa ? Reception? The market was flooded with fighters then lol this was obviously a Novelty game so why compare it to Tekken or any Major players then? He looks up editor trolls to reference back then, those who even cared to play this spoke highly of it, so to say this game was received poorly is odd seeing that most didn't receive the game at all and those who did liked it lol
@Porfirio Rubirosa CPS2 graphics hold up and it was a cute and simple game in the right ways. As this video does you read a little too far into something that never intended on you looking this far into it in the first place.......
I got this back in high school, but I think it suffered because "everyone" had moved onto 3D fighters by that time. The ones who did give Pocket Fighter a chance liked it... *but* not enough to buy theirnown copy. =/
Too japanese? What is "too japanese" about making capcom characters more cartoonish and goofier for a fighting game made more about humor than serious fighting? Dang, you must think that Looney Toons are japanese or something.
Pocket Fighters is unironicaly my favorite 2D fighter. One thing you didn’t touch on are all the crazy things going on in the background. Canny is in the game. She’s having Blanka rub suntan location on her back.
I absolutely LOVED this game when it came out! I remember playing this game more than most of the other version of SF with the exception of 3rd strike. I wish Capcom would make a sequel or a versus version with Tatsunoko. Definitely not too Japanese!
Correction: Street Fighter BUT Too Anime! Anyways, I love this game. It's a perfect game for begginers or for those who just wants to have a good time and not worry about the complexities or intricacies of what current fighting games does today.
Crazy, wild, cute, but dang so addictive. One cannot resist the cuteness. This is a fun treasure. But learning how it came to be, and inspired by, also interesting. This is something we totally need again.
I still have my PS1 copy of Pocket Fighter and absolutely love it! Videogame magazine journalists are usually just wrong about 80 percent of the time because this game was charming, creative, and just a pure joy to play! I would love to see a new Pocket Fightkig game for current gen consoles!
As a kid growing up in the 90's in California (NA), this game was always being played at my Nickle City Arcade. I thought it looked 'sick' (slang word for awesome, not bad) because it looked like Anime Street Fighter! Then a Alpha 2 Machine showed up the next year and I Literally shit my pants (of excitement and joy, not disgust).
I like the exploration of the use of Super Deformed (SD) characters. The best example of SD "ironic cuteness" for my money is Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti for the Famicom (Japan only). If you know Splatterhouse, it is not cute! Leech monsters, guts falling out, occultism, possessions, a guy with a sack over his head and chainsaw arms... But Namco made a cute version! Absurdist humor such as this seems to be pretty popular in Japan, and I actually find it entertaining as well. Anyway, for what it's worth, the game is now available in the recently released Namco Museum Archives Vol 1.
I found this game to be delightfully fun. A friend let me borrow it for the Sega Saturn back in the day and I loved it. It's lighthearted, humorous, and simple enough for fighting game newbies to get in on.
This game has great mechanics and mind-games. Unblockable special button attacks, high-low mixups with the costume combos, conventional combos from normal attacks into specials/mighty combos, the "burst" feature for emergencies, the tug-of-war over gem possession, levelling up special moves... The list goes on. It's a very deep game underneath the cute presentation.
I love Pocket Fighter. I was really into Japanese entertainment of any type, serious or silly, and I found the chibi syles for comedy very fun. Being a fan of Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, I dug this game and had no problem wrapping my head around it. Pocket Fighter was great for its casual gameplay, silly tranformations, and all the background easter eggs. Since the menu and music settings were reminiscent of Street Fighter Alpha 2, it further cemented that game's influence on fighters at the time, and is why I miss the Alpha series. Since Capcom had the Marvel fighters and had JUST released X-Men vs Street Fighter around this time, I was expecting to see X-Babies vs Pocket Fighter not just for the silly effect, but also because the X-Babies were part of X-Men canon in the comics, being cutie versions of the Marvel mutants created by Mojo as a means of capitalizing on their popularity. In fact, had the game come to fruition, I would have expected a decidedly uncute Mojo as the final boss the characters would fight against. Sadly, history has shown that I was the only one who had this dream. Great video as always! Looking forward to your Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3 video!
👆 I like the way you think! What you say brain-sparked some variations on the idea. A possible alt title could be "X-Babies VS Gem (or Pocket) Fighters". That wording might allow for bringing more of the non-SF chibi characters in the mix. And of course, you could try to have sequels of *that*. "Mini-Marvels VS Gem/Pocket Fighters", "Mighty Mini-Marvels VS Capcom Crystal Fighters", and other variations on the naming convention. The major question would be what the best characters to have on the roster would be; you'd want to pick ones that would benefit most from the chibi treatment and also aren't already represented by the "Costume Combo" transformations. 🤔
It took me a while to get back to post this but I came up w/some character options for such a game, mostly based on characters who've already been in Capcom fighters. Marvel: Wolverine Storm Iceman Sentinel Magneto Spider-Man Iron Man (Switched out for Sentinel?) Hulk (With Juggernaut and Colossus transformations?) Captain America? Capcom: Donovan (Back from Puzzle Fighter) Devilotte (Also back from Puzzle Fighter), or replace w/Jin Saotome? Guile or Charlie/Nash Captain Commando Strider Hiryu Wesker Zero (X Series)
This game ended up being my first introduction to the Tessa Character. So it holds a special place in my heart, yet I will admit its not a serious fighting. With all its flaws though I still find it to be hilarious fun. Especially with Tessa.
My friend got this for PlayStation when I was in school and we all thought it was pretty stupid but we all played it and it was really fun, I still go back to it every few years and it's still good for a few rounds here and there it's not exactly skill based and felt pretty 'pick up and play' stress free gaming.
None of my friends seemed to mind the chibi style. Puzzle Fighter HD Remix was played ultra-competitively at my house all the time. I still love it. Pocket Fight was a huge hit too and still remains one of my favorite Capcom fighting games.
I have always wanted a new version of this. Using HD 2D graphics. Cel shaded or something. With so many more Capcom characters available and possible access to Marvel too it'd be amazing.
There's also an excellent Batman spin-off comic book drawn by artist Dustin Nguyen in Chibi style called Batman 'Lil Gotham. I collected this series when it was in publication and it was quite refreshing compared to most contemporary comic books. I had no idea that it was actually a thing until I saw this video and easily recognized it. This was a great, informative video, as always! 🎩
Mr. 🎩 great job job the video hope all is well with you.👍 Have you Covered gone over Night.Slashers or The Take Over, Night.of the round?? Having played all them myself. I can say there good beat'em ups..
I bought this game on PS1 when it first released in the US. I've always been heavily into RPGs, so at the time, I wanted kind of a palette cleanser. FuncoLand (GameStop's original name) had a deal at the time for half off a used copy of Super Puzzle Fighter with purchase of a new Pocket Fighter. 2 birds... I loved both games. They were both hilarious and loads of fun. Both of my sisters (17 and 9 at the time) would play Puzzle Fighter for ungodly amounts of time for many years. My little sister even dipped her toes into Pocket Fighter. That was her gateway into fighting games. Today, she regularly whips me and both of our brothers in just about every 2D fighter we play together.
Underrated fighting game. It's amazing. The punch and kick combos that have different outcomes are hilarious. And the way Special Moves and Super Moves were changed/updated were stellar. Love this game. Other interesting mechanics were also tossed in. This is one of my favorite fighters of all time.
It's easy to understand why this game wasn't popular in the West back then since the West only liked gritty and tough stuff. It's great to see us appreciating this game now as this game is honestly amazing.
Played this in the arcades, then got it for the PS one, & was a very pleasant surprise that it was included in SF Alpha anthology. Now I know that you said "I love you long time." But being a child of the 80's all I heard was "Me love you long time." 😂
I remember being super-excited to get this game when I was twelve. Sure, it looked "cutesy", but I loved Puzzle Fighter and I loved Street Fighter and mixing the two couldn't possibly fail to me. And it didn't- I got a lot of play out of Pocket Fighter.
A review of the Wonderswan version of this game would be awesome considering that I play Pocket Fighter for Wonderswan almost daily and carry my Wonderswan with me more often than not. I must state that I am from the United States.
I really like SD character style, I played Super Robot Wars on the SNES just to see all my favorite robots in that form :D And Puzzle Fighter was tons of fun because when you hit a combo, the characters would wound each other accordingly!
It was smart of Capcom to reuse the sprites from Super Puzzle Fighter for another game. That saved them a lot of time on game production. I wish Darkstalker's Donovan could have made it into the game since he was in Super Puzzle Fighter.
I purchased the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology for the PS2 last year and this game is included with it. My Six Year Old Son is playing it as I'm typing this comment.
For me personally I like the cutesy chibi style either as the primary or alternative for a franchise. I dont see it as strange or bizarre, especially when it shows that a niche market shows up for it.
I just wish M.Bison/Balrog was in pocket fighter as a selectable fighter. It would’ve been cool to see his boxing skills implanted and the funny thing he would have done.
I play this on ps1 still... Super fun and still gives u a challenge... Def not an easy breezy game but its fun... They should give us a sequel i wouldn't mind it
I actually really like this game and play it often on my Vita. There are two types of people out there. Those that GET the japanese sense of humor in this game, and those that don't. I personally really love this style of humor.
Capcom doesn't even know they're sitting on gold. Pocket Fighter and Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo collection both with online gameplay. It will sell like hot cakes.
Wasn't too Japanese for me, watching, Akira, Guyver, Moldiver, Tenchi Muyo etc i understood the look they was going for, I had a cracked copy of the Japanese Rival School game on PS1 the whole thing was spoke to me anime fighting game. If anything Pocket Fighter is underated.
Street Fighter Alpha was heavily inspired by the Street Fighter animated film. In fact the director of the alpha series said without the anime movie there would be no Alpha series. In the Japanese rom there’s even a special tag team match against dictator that was based on the Animated film finale and used the same theme song. Anyway pocket fighter is a spin off of Super puzzle fighter II turbo which art style is based on the alpha series which was very anime esque. Super deformed chibi style art originally started due to hardware limitations in classic retro games. Obviously they couldn’t render big sprites on screen so many games in the 80s would shrink down the character sprites and the super deformed aesthetic with big eyes could give the characters expression.
First played this back in the day when i was 9 turning 10. I remember i was sleeping over at my father's place along with his ex's (before they broke up) son and his family and friends. That morning was awful due to being accused of sabotage. My father took me to EB Games (Before GameStop took over my local area) and he gotten me not only a Naruto game (The first and original Ultimate Ninja just in case anyone wonders) but also Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, which this game was part of. I wish Puzzle Fighter was part of the compilation too since i like that game slightly better than i do Pocket Fighter. I didnt think too much of how the characters looked and how different it was given the fact i myself was a child, so it worked out with me in Capcom's favor. There was times i viewed it as weird (certain moves and the last cutsene in the credits), but for the most part i liked this game. I still get a kick out of playing it today, especially when i hit my opponents so hard they orbit the world (literally). I have both the western and Japanese release (Difference between the two is that the Japanese version has audio dialogue in the cutscenes of the game) One thing i never found an answer to my question was...... Why did the PS2 version contain not only the music from Puzzle Fighter, some unknown tracks, and few songs from different games like Ibuki's theme from SF3, Zangief's theme from MVC1, and Tessa's theme straight from Red Earth. Plus im seeing some very different stages in this video. Could they be located in the console ports from the 90s by any chance?
Hello there me from 2 to 3 years ago! I just found out that was the desert stage from a mode exclusive to the Saturn and PS1 versions of Pocket Fighter called "Running Battle" mode. It is also the same stage where that one upbeat unused track in Street Fighter Alpha Anthology comes from. It is called "Never Give Up" by Isao Abe. I still got no clue why Street Fighter 3, MVC1, Puzzle Fighter, and Red Earth/Warzard music is in the PS2 version of Pocket Fighter tho.
Back in the 90's I played and loved it, I hoped to see the leveling system in other fighting games Could you talk about more SNK fighting games? I feel SNK is a little bit under represented in this series
I got to play this on Dreamcast a couple times, a HUGE amount of fun; even more fun then Night Warriors. I wish this was not as scoffed at by the larger community when it came out.
Firstly, the Gamespot review seems to not understand that the character selected in Puzzle Fighter impacts how gems are sent to your opponent, so picking a character matters. It's a nice touch to add to the game. Second, I'm amazed people disliked this game. It was such a nice casual fighting game. In the days of Killer Instincts, Tekkens, UMK3s, SF3s, having a nice easy to pick up and play fighting game was a blast and a very welcome step back. It played well, was fun, wasn't overly technical... Most fighting games light on depth were every light on fun, but not this one. I feel like anyone not able to find some enjoyment out of this game is being closed minded to the art style. I never went to the arcade without dropping a few quarters into this one.
This game was just TOO ANIME, but BEFORE Anime achieve Huge Mainstream Success in the West. Remember that this came out about a YEAR BEFORE Pokemon hit the American Airwaves. It was simply released TOO EARLY! If this was released during the PS2 Era, I think it would have had MUCH more success. It's definitely a good game, even Justin Wong has praised it. There's a lot of fun to be had, as a non serious fighter. An the Aesthetics are all REALLY nice. It was a HUGE love letter to Capcom fighting games and I wish more people gave it the love it deserves.
THIS GAME!!! so good! The Capcom fan service, easter eggs, cameos etc. This game was just plain Fun, not gritty and serious.
If you're into japanese humor and fighting games, this is tons of fun!
i love one of Zanguief's throws... he throws a fit and flips a table
Man, western gamers and reviewers were narrow-minded buffoons back then as to be “confused” with this game. I remember lots of kids talking about it in school and reading GameFan magazine as they were excited about playing it.
Editors troll, it's whAt they do. Top hat likes to fish up these old critics as if we ever cared back then. We bought the magazines for walkthroughs and previews not for reviews lol.
@@thomasbeall9069 Yup, I actually would have got Pocket Fighter for the sega saturn back then if the import store I went to had carried it. I didn't care for any of the negative reviews I saw for it since most of the game reviews were garbage.
@@thomasbeall9069 also for the pictures! Lol
Don't forget cover disks.
I actually thought the characters were kids in thid game because i didn't know what chibis were lol.
This game is always fun and charming. I’ve always loved all of the references hiding in the background.
To me, this is when capcom still really cared about their game universe
I don't care what anyone says, I love Pocket Fighter. It's one of the most charming fighting games ever made.
I had a ton of fun with it back in the day after it was released. It's definitely a (pun intended) hidden gem.
Remember when Capcom games were bright, celebrating their franchise history and made us laugh? Tatsunoko vs Capcom, puzzle fighter and this game shows how it's done!
Tatsunoko vs Capcom was one of the reasons I wanted a Wii. When I was young it was called Battle of the planets and we had no idea what anime meant. Probably had nothing to do with the original but I still liked it.
They should’ve included it in the 30th anniversary collection as a bonus. It’s still a SF game.
The 30th anniversary is missing all kinds of games from the start, ones such as:
- Hyper Street Fighter II
- Street Fighter Alpha 2 GOLD
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 UPPER
- Final Fight
@@KenMasters. capcom fighting evolution
Ken Masters It might have something to do with Sega Naomi board which is why it wasn’t included.
@@songoku9348 Sorry to intrude but all the games Ken mentioned are CPS1 and 2 games. Capcom Fighting Jam/Evolution is the Naomi game that Curby mentioned. Sorry for the scrutiny.
@@KenMasters. its included in the Street Fighter Alpha 20th Anniversary Edition on PS2. Highly Recommend it if you don't already own it.
This game honestly has my favorite stage backgrounds ever
Like, ever
its not butchering at art style is just different and its a side story to boot the SD or Chibi games are just pure fun and that Gamespot review/article is rubbish
He looks up old criticism and basically uses them to troll the game. Does it every video he makes. He is a click baiter and essentially trolls for views.
@Porfirio Rubirosa ? Reception? The market was flooded with fighters then lol this was obviously a Novelty game so why compare it to Tekken or any Major players then? He looks up editor trolls to reference back then, those who even cared to play this spoke highly of it, so to say this game was received poorly is odd seeing that most didn't receive the game at all and those who did liked it lol
@Porfirio Rubirosa CPS2 graphics hold up and it was a cute and simple game in the right ways. As this video does you read a little too far into something that never intended on you looking this far into it in the first place.......
Capcom vs. Capcom, Chibi edition. Truly a masterpiece on the Saturn.
I got this back in high school, but I think it suffered because "everyone" had moved onto 3D fighters by that time. The ones who did give Pocket Fighter a chance liked it... *but* not enough to buy theirnown copy. =/
Chibi or sd
I still break this game out on my Saturn all the time. It's still a blast.
Too japanese? What is "too japanese" about making capcom characters more cartoonish and goofier for a fighting game made more about humor than serious fighting? Dang, you must think that Looney Toons are japanese or something.
Chibi characters and tropes
This is one of the most charming games of all time. Love it
Pocket Fighters is unironicaly my favorite 2D fighter. One thing you didn’t touch on are all the crazy things going on in the background. Canny is in the game. She’s having Blanka rub suntan location on her back.
I was like 19 years old when this came out and i loved it lol. I wish it would of ended up on the street fighter collection so i could play it again
I played a lot of Pocket Fighter back in the days. A unique SF game like none other.
I absolutely LOVED this game when it came out! I remember playing this game more than most of the other version of SF with the exception of 3rd strike. I wish Capcom would make a sequel or a versus version with Tatsunoko. Definitely not too Japanese!
thanks for covering Puzzle Fighter. still one of my fave games.
Correction: Street Fighter BUT Too Anime!
Anyways, I love this game.
It's a perfect game for begginers or for those who just wants to have a good time and not worry about the complexities or intricacies of what current fighting games does today.
"Too Japanese" is correct, I'm sick of people calling everything Japanese "anime".
It would make sense as there was Flinstone kids, a pup named scooby doo, tom and jerry kids, muppet babies
not the same
Crazy, wild, cute, but dang so addictive. One cannot resist the cuteness. This is a fun treasure. But learning how it came to be, and inspired by, also interesting. This is something we totally need again.
that game has some of the best backgrounds in the entire series imo
Champion of chibi.....
This is one of my favourite fighting games. Such a great game to play with a bunch of friends. It was pretty simple in comparison but too fun.
Nothing wrong with simplicity
@@djsiddiki3430 agreed
I love this game, it was one of the few games in the arcade that took one quarter to play that was good.
once again, on a roll with your videos lately!! :)
Damn!! Mini mix is too cute. I may be an adult male, but the art style is really causing my inter otaku light 2 shine once again!!!
I still have my PS1 copy of Pocket Fighter and absolutely love it! Videogame magazine journalists are usually just wrong about 80 percent of the time because this game was charming, creative, and just a pure joy to play! I would love to see a new Pocket Fightkig game for current gen consoles!
As a kid growing up in the 90's in California (NA), this game was always being played at my Nickle City Arcade. I thought it looked 'sick' (slang word for awesome, not bad) because it looked like Anime Street Fighter! Then a Alpha 2 Machine showed up the next year and I Literally shit my pants (of excitement and joy, not disgust).
I like the exploration of the use of Super Deformed (SD) characters. The best example of SD "ironic cuteness" for my money is Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti for the Famicom (Japan only). If you know Splatterhouse, it is not cute! Leech monsters, guts falling out, occultism, possessions, a guy with a sack over his head and chainsaw arms... But Namco made a cute version! Absurdist humor such as this seems to be pretty popular in Japan, and I actually find it entertaining as well. Anyway, for what it's worth, the game is now available in the recently released Namco Museum Archives Vol 1.
I found this game to be delightfully fun. A friend let me borrow it for the Sega Saturn back in the day and I loved it. It's lighthearted, humorous, and simple enough for fighting game newbies to get in on.
This game has great mechanics and mind-games. Unblockable special button attacks, high-low mixups with the costume combos, conventional combos from normal attacks into specials/mighty combos, the "burst" feature for emergencies, the tug-of-war over gem possession, levelling up special moves... The list goes on. It's a very deep game underneath the cute presentation.
I still own this game and still love it to this day. Sooo good
I love Pocket Fighter. I was really into Japanese entertainment of any type, serious or silly, and I found the chibi syles for comedy very fun. Being a fan of Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, I dug this game and had no problem wrapping my head around it. Pocket Fighter was great for its casual gameplay, silly tranformations, and all the background easter eggs. Since the menu and music settings were reminiscent of Street Fighter Alpha 2, it further cemented that game's influence on fighters at the time, and is why I miss the Alpha series.
Since Capcom had the Marvel fighters and had JUST released X-Men vs Street Fighter around this time, I was expecting to see X-Babies vs Pocket Fighter not just for the silly effect, but also because the X-Babies were part of X-Men canon in the comics, being cutie versions of the Marvel mutants created by Mojo as a means of capitalizing on their popularity. In fact, had the game come to fruition, I would have expected a decidedly uncute Mojo as the final boss the characters would fight against. Sadly, history has shown that I was the only one who had this dream.
Great video as always! Looking forward to your Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3 video!
👆 I like the way you think!
What you say brain-sparked some variations on the idea. A possible alt title could be "X-Babies VS Gem (or Pocket) Fighters". That wording might allow for bringing more of the non-SF chibi characters in the mix.
And of course, you could try to have sequels of *that*. "Mini-Marvels VS Gem/Pocket Fighters", "Mighty Mini-Marvels VS Capcom Crystal Fighters", and other variations on the naming convention. The major question would be what the best characters to have on the roster would be; you'd want to pick ones that would benefit most from the chibi treatment and also aren't already represented by the "Costume Combo" transformations. 🤔
It took me a while to get back to post this but I came up w/some character options for such a game, mostly based on characters who've already been in Capcom fighters.
Marvel:
Wolverine
Storm
Iceman
Sentinel
Magneto
Spider-Man
Iron Man (Switched out for Sentinel?)
Hulk (With Juggernaut and Colossus transformations?)
Captain America?
Capcom:
Donovan (Back from Puzzle Fighter)
Devilotte (Also back from Puzzle Fighter), or replace w/Jin Saotome?
Guile or Charlie/Nash
Captain Commando
Strider Hiryu
Wesker
Zero (X Series)
Shannon Spooner I have to have Gambit. Just for me.
I totally forgot about this game and yes it was and still is amazing.
Thankyou so much for this video!! I used to love this game so much, was just a really beautiful and fun experience to play
The way you send people flying it reminds me of a platform fighter ..
This game ended up being my first introduction to the Tessa Character. So it holds a special place in my heart, yet I will admit its not a serious fighting. With all its flaws though I still find it to be hilarious fun. Especially with Tessa.
My friend got this for PlayStation when I was in school and we all thought it was pretty stupid but we all played it and it was really fun, I still go back to it every few years and it's still good for a few rounds here and there it's not exactly skill based and felt pretty 'pick up and play' stress free gaming.
it was the puzzle fighter game boys wanted at the time XD
None of my friends seemed to mind the chibi style. Puzzle Fighter HD Remix was played ultra-competitively at my house all the time. I still love it. Pocket Fight was a huge hit too and still remains one of my favorite Capcom fighting games.
Pocket Fighter is super fun! Love the art style - the backgrounds are the coolest backgrounds of any fighting game.
I have always wanted a new version of this. Using HD 2D graphics. Cel shaded or something. With so many more Capcom characters available and possible access to Marvel too it'd be amazing.
In a funny way, pocket fighter and puzzle fighter were pretty much Darkstalkers vs. Street Fighter but just chibied with zany attacks and animations!
I’m assuming this is Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix or a variation. We’ll be getting it with the Capcom Fighting Collection.
There's also an excellent Batman spin-off comic book drawn by artist Dustin Nguyen in Chibi style called Batman 'Lil Gotham. I collected this series when it was in publication and it was quite refreshing compared to most contemporary comic books. I had no idea that it was actually a thing until I saw this video and easily recognized it. This was a great, informative video, as always! 🎩
One of those games i need to get for my Saturn, very cool game.
Mr. 🎩 great job job the video hope all is well with you.👍 Have you Covered gone over Night.Slashers or The Take Over, Night.of the round?? Having played all them myself. I can say there good beat'em ups..
Loved this game! So much love for the Capcom oeuvre shoved into every aspect.
My oldest best friend and I used to waste hours wailing on each other with this game on the PSOne! We loved this!
I'm a snob against the PS version, it's missing too much animation.
I bought this game on PS1 when it first released in the US. I've always been heavily into RPGs, so at the time, I wanted kind of a palette cleanser. FuncoLand (GameStop's original name) had a deal at the time for half off a used copy of Super Puzzle Fighter with purchase of a new Pocket Fighter. 2 birds...
I loved both games. They were both hilarious and loads of fun. Both of my sisters (17 and 9 at the time) would play Puzzle Fighter for ungodly amounts of time for many years. My little sister even dipped her toes into Pocket Fighter. That was her gateway into fighting games. Today, she regularly whips me and both of our brothers in just about every 2D fighter we play together.
Nice video.... Just one question. Who is this RAHYUH character? Is he related to Ryu?
...howdy from Nashville Tennessee! you have some fantastic Capcom content! I can't believe I haven't subscribed. FIXED IT
Mate just wanted to say thank you for your coverage if this game, it’s one of my favourites of all time of the franchise
I came to Street fighter 2 as a young teenager, but I have to say I enjoyed Pocket Fighter and Puzzle Fighter with my friends as a nice curiosity.
Underrated fighting game. It's amazing. The punch and kick combos that have different outcomes are hilarious. And the way Special Moves and Super Moves were changed/updated were stellar. Love this game. Other interesting mechanics were also tossed in. This is one of my favorite fighters of all time.
Ah, another high quality Top Hat Gaming Man video..
You're not kidding tbis game was super japanese. My friends and I used to jokingly call it Pocketzu Fighteruru when we were kids
It's easy to understand why this game wasn't popular in the West back then since the West only liked gritty and tough stuff. It's great to see us appreciating this game now as this game is honestly amazing.
Boy, you sure love Ken's egg beater tatsumaki. (But who doesn't?)
Played this in the arcades, then got it for the PS one, & was a very pleasant surprise that it was included in SF Alpha anthology.
Now I know that you said "I love you long time." But being a child of the 80's all I heard was "Me love you long time." 😂
I remember me and my roommate would play this game all day and night. Fun times. LOL. Love the game. Great video.
Loving all these street fighter 2 videos right now
You just put me in the mood to play it now. Thanks 👍!
Gundams are no robots ;-)
I recommend diving in yourself. Personally I like it a lot.
This, Dark Stalkers 3, Rival Schools, and Alpha 3 were my complete and total main staples when the PS1 was THE thing to have.
I remember being super-excited to get this game when I was twelve. Sure, it looked "cutesy", but I loved Puzzle Fighter and I loved Street Fighter and mixing the two couldn't possibly fail to me. And it didn't- I got a lot of play out of Pocket Fighter.
A review of the Wonderswan version of this game would be awesome considering that I play Pocket Fighter for Wonderswan almost daily and carry my Wonderswan with me more often than not. I must state that I am from the United States.
I adored this game so much growing up and it had a really fun fighting system
I love this game especially since it came out the same month my son was born on 7-24-98.
I really like SD character style, I played Super Robot Wars on the SNES just to see all my favorite robots in that form :D And Puzzle Fighter was tons of fun because when you hit a combo, the characters would wound each other accordingly!
Great video yet again you have the best chanel on RUclips.
It was smart of Capcom to reuse the sprites from Super Puzzle Fighter for another game. That saved them a lot of time on game production.
I wish Darkstalker's Donovan could have made it into the game since he was in Super Puzzle Fighter.
I purchased the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology for the PS2 last year and this game is included with it. My Six Year Old Son is playing it as I'm typing this comment.
For me personally I like the cutesy chibi style either as the primary or alternative for a franchise. I dont see it as strange or bizarre, especially when it shows that a niche market shows up for it.
I just wish M.Bison/Balrog was in pocket fighter as a selectable fighter. It would’ve been cool to see his boxing skills implanted and the funny thing he would have done.
definitely going to look for that Japan exclusive Street Fighter FMV game now!
I play this on ps1 still... Super fun and still gives u a challenge... Def not an easy breezy game but its fun... They should give us a sequel i wouldn't mind it
I thought u would mention that this game is obviously the 1st one to show that MVC3 gameplay b4 MVC3 even existed but this was a gd watch
I remember playing this on my Ps2 and it was fun plus cute that Chun lee went to Jill valentine mode XD
I actually really like this game and play it often on my Vita.
There are two types of people out there. Those that GET the japanese sense of humor in this game, and those that don't.
I personally really love this style of humor.
I watched Muppet Babies growing up. So
I didnt mind the chibi art style. After Virtue Fighter kids I just assumed this was Capcom's cute fighter.
Capcom doesn't even know they're sitting on gold. Pocket Fighter and Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo collection both with online gameplay. It will sell like hot cakes.
Chibi was popular in these days
I love this game. So much fun! It is a classic gem. Darkstalkers with Street Fighter is so awesome.
Wasn't too Japanese for me, watching, Akira, Guyver, Moldiver, Tenchi Muyo etc i understood the look they was going for, I had a cracked copy of the Japanese Rival School game on PS1 the whole thing was spoke to me anime fighting game. If anything Pocket Fighter is underated.
Rival school oh man the nostalgia
I played this a lot. I used zangief. Grab then opponent will bounce off the wall then air grab to slam down.
Street Fighter Alpha was heavily inspired by the Street Fighter animated film. In fact the director of the alpha series said without the anime movie there would be no Alpha series. In the Japanese rom there’s even a special tag team match against dictator that was based on the Animated film finale and used the same theme song.
Anyway pocket fighter is a spin off of Super puzzle fighter II turbo which art style is based on the alpha series which was very anime esque.
Super deformed chibi style art originally started due to hardware limitations in classic retro games. Obviously they couldn’t render big sprites on screen so many games in the 80s would shrink down the character sprites and the super deformed aesthetic with big eyes could give the characters expression.
First played this back in the day when i was 9 turning 10. I remember i was sleeping over at my father's place along with his ex's (before they broke up) son and his family and friends. That morning was awful due to being accused of sabotage. My father took me to EB Games (Before GameStop took over my local area) and he gotten me not only a Naruto game (The first and original Ultimate Ninja just in case anyone wonders) but also Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, which this game was part of. I wish Puzzle Fighter was part of the compilation too since i like that game slightly better than i do Pocket Fighter.
I didnt think too much of how the characters looked and how different it was given the fact i myself was a child, so it worked out with me in Capcom's favor. There was times i viewed it as weird (certain moves and the last cutsene in the credits), but for the most part i liked this game. I still get a kick out of playing it today, especially when i hit my opponents so hard they orbit the world (literally). I have both the western and Japanese release (Difference between the two is that the Japanese version has audio dialogue in the cutscenes of the game) One thing i never found an answer to my question was...... Why did the PS2 version contain not only the music from Puzzle Fighter, some unknown tracks, and few songs from different games like Ibuki's theme from SF3, Zangief's theme from MVC1, and Tessa's theme straight from Red Earth. Plus im seeing some very different stages in this video. Could they be located in the console ports from the 90s by any chance?
Hello there me from 2 to 3 years ago! I just found out that was the desert stage from a mode exclusive to the Saturn and PS1 versions of Pocket Fighter called "Running Battle" mode. It is also the same stage where that one upbeat unused track in Street Fighter Alpha Anthology comes from. It is called "Never Give Up" by Isao Abe. I still got no clue why Street Fighter 3, MVC1, Puzzle Fighter, and Red Earth/Warzard music is in the PS2 version of Pocket Fighter tho.
Back in the 90's I played and loved it, I hoped to see the leveling system in other fighting games
Could you talk about more SNK fighting games? I feel SNK is a little bit under represented in this series
I got to play this on Dreamcast a couple times, a HUGE amount of fun; even more fun then Night Warriors. I wish this was not as scoffed at by the larger community when it came out.
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Your Ken skills are strong!
Firstly, the Gamespot review seems to not understand that the character selected in Puzzle Fighter impacts how gems are sent to your opponent, so picking a character matters. It's a nice touch to add to the game.
Second, I'm amazed people disliked this game. It was such a nice casual fighting game. In the days of Killer Instincts, Tekkens, UMK3s, SF3s, having a nice easy to pick up and play fighting game was a blast and a very welcome step back.
It played well, was fun, wasn't overly technical... Most fighting games light on depth were every light on fun, but not this one. I feel like anyone not able to find some enjoyment out of this game is being closed minded to the art style.
I never went to the arcade without dropping a few quarters into this one.
I was into anime back in the 90s so I loved playing this game, it's pretty solid to be honest
Any chance you're gonna cover the neogeo pocket games? they have a similar fighting style, and didn't took off the west either.
Loved it will use the ending credits song in a wedding
I remember first seeing the ads for this in my mid-teens and wanting to give it a shot, cutesiness be damned.
This game was just TOO ANIME, but BEFORE Anime achieve Huge Mainstream Success in the West. Remember that this came out about a YEAR BEFORE Pokemon hit the American Airwaves. It was simply released TOO EARLY! If this was released during the PS2 Era, I think it would have had MUCH more success. It's definitely a good game, even Justin Wong has praised it. There's a lot of fun to be had, as a non serious fighter. An the Aesthetics are all REALLY nice. It was a HUGE love letter to Capcom fighting games and I wish more people gave it the love it deserves.
For Asian ACG fans this SD art style is so normal that hardly anyone would question its existence
Only one reason why I bought Pocket Fighter for the PS1: Chibi Morrigan. 😍