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• Bandai started with the MSX title Kinnikuman Colosseum Deathmatch, which was the first licensed fighting game (which was based on the Kinnikuman manga and anime franchise) and noteworthy for being the first with air throws. Bandai later became better known for developing and publishing licensed fighting games based on the Dragon Ball, most notably the Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden fighting game series, Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension for the SNES, and Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout for the PS1. Bandai also developed and published the only DBZ game for the Sega Genesis, Dragon Ball Z: Buyu Retsuden. Besides titles based on Kinnikuman and Dragon Ball franchises, they also developed arcade, home and handheld fighting games based on other anime/manga franchises, such as the Sailor Moon series, the Mobile Suit Gundam series and the Ultra Series.
• Banpresto (formally known as Hoei Sangyo, Co. Ltd. in 1977 and Coreland in 1982) released several console and especially arcade fighting games. Most of them were licensed titles released in the '90s based on Ultraman, Godzilla, Dragon Ball, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Sokkō Seitokai: Sonic Council (based on Gamest Magazine's successful manga strip created by Masashi Ogawa). They also developed Real Robots Final Attack and published Metamoqester (known in Japan as Oni – The Ninja Master; developed by Pandora Box), Genei Tougi: Shadow Struggle and Critical Blow (both developed by Racjin), and the beat 'em up/fighting game hybrid Panzer Bandit (developed by Fill in Cafe).
• Betop developed the Game Boy ports of Samurai Shodown III, Battle Arena Toshiden and World Heroes 2 Jet as part of Takara's Nettō 'Dead Heat Fighters' series. They also developed the Mega Drive / Genesis port of SNK's King of the Monsters 2 (also published by Takara).
• Beyond Games developed Ultra Vortek (published by Atari Games).
• Black Ops Entertainment, along with DreamWorks Interactive, developed Warpath: Jurassic Park (distributed by Electronic Arts).
• Blizzard Entertainment (now merged with Activision as Activision Blizzard) was assisted by Sunsoft of America in developing the Super Nintendo Entertainment System version of Justice League Task Force, while their Bay Area division Blizzard North (then known as Condor, Inc.) worked with Sunsoft of America in developing the Sega Mega Drive version. Both versions were published by Acclaim Entertainment.
• BrezzaSoft, a Japanese company founded by former employees of SNK (now merged with SNK Playmore) co-developed Rage of the Dragons (chiefly-developed by Noise Factory, designed by Evoga and published by Playmore).
• Bug-Byte developed an early fighting game simply titled Kung-Fu for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1984.
• Byulbram Creature, a Korean business, created some of the very first Korean fighting games. During 1991, the year it was founded, they produced their first fighting game, Horangi-eui Bunno (lit. Rage of Tiger), which was the first Korean fighting game, and the only one developed in the country before the impact of Capcom's Street Fighter II. Byulbram Creature later created its sequel Horangi-eui Bunno 2: Pi, Don, Geurigo Nunmul (lit. Rage of Tiger 2: Blood, Money and Tears). From 2002 to 2011, their next fighting game Hyeolsipja FC (lit. Asura Cross FC) became not only its largest effort in the genre, but one of their largest efforts in their business history.