įighting game enthusiasts generally prefer the moniker 'competitive gaming', and often eschew the term 'esports', citing cultural differences between the predominantly PC-gaming esports communities and the older arcade-gaming community. Important tournaments for the genre include the Evolution Championship Series and Capcom Cup, Tougeki – Super Battle Opera was a major tournament for several years. series are amongst those fighting games played at a professional level. Capcom series, Tekken series, Killer Instinct series and Super Smash Bros. The Street Fighter series, Mortal Kombat series, Marvel vs. The genre originally focused on arcade play, but has gradually moved to console play as arcades have declined. Ĭompetitions in the genre are generally individual competitions with both players providing input to the same machine. Fighting games were among the earliest games to be in tournaments, with the founding of what would become the Evolution Championship Series in 1999.
