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• T&E Soft published Tribeca Interactive's Shadow: War of Succession in Japan.
• Taito Corporation created the 1975 arcade game Gun Fight (known in Japan as Western Gun), which was recognized by critics as the first with one-on-one combat, but it only used guns. Taito's first real fighting game was the Japan-exclusive arcade game Onna Sansirou - Typhoon Gal, which was also the first to have a playable female character. They later created the Violence Fight series, Dino Rex featuring prehistoric animals, Global Champion (known in Japan either as Kaiser Knuckle or Dan-Ku-Ga) which feature power zones and destructible stages; and the Psychic Force series (including Psychic Force and Psychic Force 2012) which are considered precursors to the Dragon Ball Z Budokai games. The only fighting games Taito only published were Ka Ge Ki (developed by Kaneko without credit), Great Swordsman and Gladiator (both developed by Allumer without credit), Fighter's Impact and its sequel Fighter's Impact A (both developed by Polygon Magic), and Chaos Breaker (developed by Eolith. Later ported to the PlayStation Network as Dark Awake: The King Has No Name, published by Recom).
• Takara (now merged with Tomy as Takara Tomy) published numerous Neo Geo fighting games to certain home consoles and handhelds, such as some games in SNK's Fatal Fury franchise and ADK's World Heroes franchise. Their line of Game Boy ports of Neo Geo fighting games are known as the Nettō 'Dead Heat Fighters' series. Takara also created a Japan-only Sony PlayStation title featuring characters from Tatsunoko's four anime franchises (plus some exclusive ones), Tatsunoko Fight. They also published their own 3-D fighting game series, Battle Arena Toshinden, which was developed by Tamsoft.
• Tamsoft developed the Battle Arena Toshinden series.
• Tatsumi created Big Fight: Big Trouble in the Atlantic Ocean, an arcade game with two modes: beat 'em up and 2D versus fighting.
• Team17 created Body Blows, Body Blows Galactic and Ultimate Body Blows.
• Technical Group Labroratory (TGL) published home console titles of Giga's Variable Geo franchise.
• Technos Japan, a company founded by former Data East employees, started with its NES version of their successful beat 'em up hit, Double Dragon, which features a 2D fighting game mode. They later created a tournament-based fighting game Nekketsu Kakutō Densetsu (part of the Kunio-kun series) and a fighting game for the Neo Geo simply titled Double Dragon (based on the video game-based film of the same name). Their last fighting game before bankruptcy was Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer for the Neo Geo. Technos also supported Data East in developing the influential Karate Champ arcade, and licensed some of its Double Dragon series characters to Tradewest, Leland Interactive Media and Telegames in producing Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls.
• Technosoft created Reverthion and Koutetsu Reiiki: Steeldom for the PlayStation, and later ported them to the Sega Saturn as Hyper Reverthion and simply Steeldom.
• Tecmo (formally known as Tekhan) has a division Team Ninja that developed every instance of the Dead or Alive series. The creation of the Dead or Alive franchise most likely saved Tecmo from both financial and business collapse. Around the same time of the Dead or Alive franchise's debut, Tecmo also released their only sprite-based 2D fighting game Tōkidenshō Angel Eyes. They also distributed the original arcade versions of Astra Super Stars (developed by Sunsoft and SANTACLAUS) and Kouryuu Densetsu: Elan Doree (developed by Sai-Mate).
• Telegames ported Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (originally developed by Leland Interactive Media and published by Tradewest to the Super NES and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis) to the ill-fated Atari Jaguar.
• Telenet Japan co-published Taiketsu!! Brass Numbers in Japan, which was mainly published and developed by its subsidiary Laser Soft in Japan. It was later published in North America by Renovation Products as Doomsday Warrior.
• THQ published Vs. and Shaolin (developed by Polygon Magic), as well as Pride FC: Fighting Championships (developed by Anchor Inc.) and Black Belt Challenge (developed by Lost Boys).
• Toei Animation released Fighting Road and some fighting games based on manga/anime they animated, such as Fist of the North Star, including the first portable fighting game Fist of the North Star: 10 Big Brawls for the King of Universe for the Game Boy.
• Tomy (now merged with Takara as Takara Tomy), created Kakugo no Susume. They also worked with 8ing/Raizing on several licensed fighting games such as Grappler Baki: Baki Saikyou Retsuden (released outside of Japan as Fighting Fury. Based on the Grappler Baki manga/anime series.), Zoids: Full Metal Crash, Zoids Struggle (both based on Tomy's Zoids franchise) and the Naruto: Clash of Ninja series (based on the Naruto manga/anime series).
• Tose co-developed the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer licensed-fighting games Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S and Ultraman Powered (both published by Bandai).
• Toshiba Emi published Battle Master (developed by System Vision) for the Super Family Computer.
• Tradewest published the Super NES and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis versions of Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (both developed by Leland Interactive Media).
• Treasure Co. Ltd. started with the Yu Yu Hakusho-based Sega Mega Drive title YuYu Hakusho: Makyo Toitsusen (published by Sega in Japan, and published by Tec Toys as Yu Yu Hakusho: Sunset Fighters in Brazil), and later became the sole developer of two Bleach-based titles: Bleach: The Blade of Fate and Bleach DS 2nd both for the Nintendo DS. They also developed Guardian Heroes (published by Sega), which is a beat 'em up that features a versus fighting mode; and Rakugaki Showtime (published by Enix), an arena-based fighting game.
• Treco, a subsidiary of Sammy Corporation, published Fighting Masters, which was developed by Almanic for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Treco also ported SNK's Street Smart arcade to the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.
• Tribeca Interactive, a computer game production company owned by actor Robert De Niro, developed the 3DO title, Shadow: War of Succession.
• Turtle Byte only produced the Commodore Amiga fighting game Chinese Karate.
• Type-Moon created the concept of the dojin soft 2D fighter Melty Blood (co-developed by French-Bread). Its general success (including arcade and PS2 versions) made Type-Moon less of a dojin soft organization and more of a company.
• Twelve Interactive is currently developing The Circle: Martial Arts Fighter (known in Europe as Martial Arts: Capoeira).