List of Fighting Game Companies - M

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• Magical Company (formally known as Home Data) developed and published Last Apostle Puppet Show (known in Japan as Reikai Doushi: Chinese Exorcist), the first fighting game with digitized sprites. They also created Battlecry and later ported the first three titles in the Fatal Fury series to the Sharp X68000 home computer.
• Make developed the NEC PC Engine game Super Metal Crusher (published by Pack-In-Video (also referred to as Pack-In-Soft)).
• Martech (also known as Screen 7) created Brian Jack's Uchi Mata, which became the first fighting game to feature hidden moves that players have to find on their own, as well as the first to feature motion control scheme that allowed users to perform various fighting techniques, which both of these were later widely used in modern-fighting games.
• Masaya developed a fighting game spin-off of their Chō Aniki franchise titled Chō Aniki Bakuretsu Rantō Hen (published by Nippon Computer Systems Corp.), one of the earliest airborne-based fighting games.
• MediaLeaves developed with Agetec some of the newer versions of Fighter Maker (published by Enterbrain).
• Megatech Software localized Ningyou Tsukai (developed by Forest) outside of Japan as Metal & Lace: Battle of the Robo Babes.
• MentalDrink Studios, an indie game developer (formally known as Nasty Brothers Software) developed Fight 'N' Jokes for MS-DOS CD in 1997. A remake for Nintendo DS titled as ToonFighterZ is currently on hold.
• Metro3D, Inc. published a Game Boy Advance exclusive, Dual Blades (developed by Sobee).
• Midway sparked an incredible amount of controversy in 1992's Mortal Kombat, a 2D fighter with digitized sprites and wacky gore. Like Street Fighter II had spawned a multitude of imitations, other companies released similarly gory offerings, though they did not do as well. The more recent games in the series (Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, and Mortal Kombat: Deception) are in 3D. Other than the Mortal Kombat franchise, they also created War Gods and Mace: The Dark Age, as well as publishing Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. (developed by Saffire) and manufacturing the arcade cabinets for the Killer Instinct series (developed by Rare Ltd.).
• Mindscape (formally known as The Software Toolworks) created Bruce Lee Lives for MS-DOS-operated PCs, which stars the Jeet Kune Do founder and movie actor, Bruce Lee. The game features a special AI engine that changes the difficulty level by focusing on the player's actions.
• Mirage Technologies (sometimes known either as Mirage Studios or Mirage Media) developed Rise of the Robots (published mainly by Time Warner Interactive), one of the earliest 3D-rendered 2D fighting games, as well as its sequel Rise 2: Resurrection (published by Acclaim Entertainment).
• Mitchell Corporation created Chatan Yarakuu Shanku - The Karate Tournament exclusively for the arcades.
• Monolith (not to be confused with Monolith Productions nor Monolith Soft) developed the Super Famicom ports of Art of Fighting (published by K. Amusement Leasing (KAC)), Fatal Fury Special and Samurai Shodown (both published by Takara) and Art of Fighting 2 (published by Saurus). They also developed Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S - Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen (published by Angel) for the same platform.