List of Fighting Game Companies - I

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• Idea Factory, a company founded by former employees of Data East, assisted Taiwanese game developer International Games System (or IGS) in licensing and developing Spectral VS. Generation (featuring characters from two Idea Factory game franchises).
• Imagineer published the Seifuku Densetsu Pretty Fighter series (developed by Genki). Imagineer also published the N64-exclusive 3D fighting game series, Fighters Destiny (also developed by Genki). Outside of Japan, Ocean Software published the first title, while SouthPeak Interactive published the sequel, Fighter Destiny 2 (intentionally named differently).
• Incredible Technologies developed Time Killers and BloodStorm (both published by Strata), as well as the arcade version of Street Fighter: The Movie (published by Capcom).
• International Games System (or IGS), a Taiwan-based company, started with Alien Challenge, then later created The Killing Blade, Spectral vs. Generation (featuring characters from two Idea Factory game franchises) and Martial Masters.
• Interplay Entertainment published the Clay Fighter franchise, which featured claymation-style graphics that were created by photographing and digitizing actual clay models.
• IPC Software published the Sony PlayStation fighting game Kakuge-Yaro: Fighting Game Creator (developed by Outback).
• Irem created Superior Soldiers (known in Japan as Perfect Soldiers) as their answer to Capcom's Street Fighter II, which its plot takes place in the R-Type universe. Several graphic designers of this and several other Irem titles later moved to and founded Nasca and supported SNK in designing the graphics of the Metal Slug and The King of Fighters franchises. Irem of America, Irem's North American division, localized NCS Corp's Ranma ½: Chounai Gekitou Hen in North America as Street Combat.