Possibly more than any other genre of game, fighting games are about building and improving upon what came before. Related 10 Best Fighting Games Forgotten by Time They live on in the arcades of our hearts. Like, there were games about fighting, but they didn’t really resemble the proper one-on-one fighting games we know and love today. Turbo is the second revamped version of Street Fighter II, following the additional characters and rebalanced mechanics introduced in Street Fighter II: Champion Edition earlier in 1992. 8 Art of FightingNeeds More MetersOne of the reasons older fighting games aren’t as flashy as newer ones, besides lesser graphical capabilities, is that earlier fighting games didn’t have any meters besides the health meter.