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The History of Sega Fighting Games, by Jer Horwitz
When most people think of "Sega" and "fighting games," they think of the Virtua Fighter and Eternal Champions games, yet the first one-on-one fighting games for Sega's home and arcade units were neither of those titles. After Street Fighter II rocked the world in 1991, Sega's development teams set out to make the company a player in the new genre of video gaming - not an easy task for a company with most of its experience in driving, flying, and shooting games. Over time, Sega came up with a handful of solutions, one of which eventually knocked the Street Fighter series off of its pedestal in Japan, and another of which contributed to the SF series' decline in the United States. But before Sega could unseat Capcom, there were a number of failures, and herein you can see some of the "baby steps" Sega took on the road to success.

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