List of Fighting Game Companies - D

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• Danger Productions worked on the animations of the ClayFighter series.
• Data East created Karate Champ, which was credited with establishing and popularizing the one-on-one fighting game genre, and went on to influence Konami's Yie Ar Kung-Fu from 1985 and Capcom's Street Fighter from 1987. Data East's next fighting games were Karate Champ: Player VS. Player, the only sequel to their previous fighting game; Hippodrome, which allowed players to use different multiple weapons and fight gigantic boss characters; and Fighter's History, despite the controversy surrounding the court case against Capcom that followed it, its release in the market was successful enough for Data East to create two sequels: Fighter's History Dynamite (known in Europe as Karnov's Revenge) and Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!, which was released exclusively in Japan for the Super Famicom and as an extra found in the Sega Saturn port of Fighter's History Dynamite. Data East Pinball and Back to the Future screenwriter, Bob Gale, joined together and created their answer to Midway's Mortal Kombat franchise, Tattoo Assassins, but it was unreleased; however, along with most other Data East stuff, G-Mode bought the rights to it after Data East's bankruptcy in 2003 and will distribute it whenever anyone pleases them. Other fighting games created by Data East before their bankruptcy were Avengers in Galactic Storm, the first fighting game to feature assistant characters often referred to either as helpers or Strikers; and the Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty series, noted for both the juggle system and the ability to break weapons or throw them away willingly to fight unarmed, which is less powerful but faster and easier to combo from.
• Datam Polystar published Makeruna! Makendō 2 (developed by Fill in Cafe) for the Super Famicom and later the Sony PlayStation.
• Delphine Software International (DSI), a now-defunct French video game company, developed the ill-fated, rotoscope-animated Shaq Fu (published by Electronic Arts) for the Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Super Nintendo, Game Boy and Amiga platforms, which is not only considered by many to be the worst fighting game, but one of the worst video games of all time.
• Dimps is the developer of the Rumble Fish series (originally published by Sammy), noted for its distinct 2.5D graphics. Dimps is also the creator of Custom Beat Battle: Draglade, a 2D Fighter/RPG/rhythm based game hybrid exclusive to the Nintendo DS. Dimps also produced the Dragon Ball Z Budokai series and worked with Banpresto on The Battle of Yū Yū Hakusho: Shitou! Ankoku Bujutsu Kai 120% Full Power, and Capcom on Street Fighter IV and its revisions.
• Discovery created Valkyrie: The Power Beauties for the PC-9800.
• Diversions Entertainment created One Must Fall, One Must Fall 2097 and One Must Fall: Battlegrounds.
• DreamFactory developed or co-developed the Tobal games, Ehrgeiz, UFC: Tapout, and The Bouncer.
• DreamWorks Interactive, along with Black Ops Entertainment, developed Warpath: Jurassic Park (distributed by Electronic Arts).