List of Fighting Game Companies - V

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• Vectorbeam, a splinter company of Cinematronics, created what many consider to be the earliest fighting game, Warrior, released in 1979. It is also the earliest weapon-based fighting game, as well as the earliest Bird's-Eye viewed fighting game.
• Vesco a Korean-based company created one of the earliest Korean 3D fighting games, Real Fighter.
• Vic Tokai published Criticom and Dark Rift worldwide, which are 3D fighting games developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment.
• Viccom, SNK's former Korean-based distributor, created Wang Jhung Wang (published outside of South Korea by SNK as Fight Fever) for the Neo Geo, and Kyoku Cho Gou Ken (also known as The Eye of Typhoon) for the 3DO and PC.
• Video System created Ta•o Taido, a fighting game that has a switch that can either allow players to summon special moves by using button combinations (like in most other fighting games), or by charging up two buttons before moving the joystick in one of four directions to choose one out of four special moves.
• Virgin Interactive developed Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Super NES and Atari Jaguar, which was based on the film of the same name.
• Visco Corporation created Breakers and its enhanced version, Breakers Revenge, which became Visco's fighting game franchise for the Neo Geo MVS. Originally planned as Tenrin no Syo Chicago or Crystal Legacy.
• Visual Concepts developed ClayFighter and C2 Judgement Day (both published by Interplay Entertainment), as well as Weaponlord (published by Namco).
• VU Games published the Fight Club fighting game (developed by Genuine Games for Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox, and Superscape for cell phones).