Have fun playing the amazing Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (EU) game for M.A.M.E. All Rights Reserved. Not as deep as Street Fighter Alpha, but just as fun, Darkstalkers is a welcome addition to the PlayStation library. This game was categorized as Action on our website. [2], Capcom entrusted the PlayStation conversion of the game to Psygnosis due to Capcom's inexperience with the PlayStation hardware. "[23], "UDON Entertainment » Darkstalkers: Official Complete Works", "Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors Brings Vampire Bliss To PSN This Week", "Darkstalkers Resurrection review • Reviews • PlayStation 3 •", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Darkstalkers:_The_Night_Warriors&oldid=974799600, Multiplayer and single-player video games, Articles using Infobox video game using locally defined parameters, Articles using Wikidata infoboxes with locally defined images, Articles containing Japanese-language text, Articles using Video game reviews template in single platform mode, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The game's soundtrack was also rereleased on July 10, 2013, by Capcom on, This page was last edited on 25 August 2020, at 02:52. "[22] In 2013, Eurogamer's Matt Edwards stated Darkstalkers "has remained something of a cult favourite thanks to its unique style and technical innovations. Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Euro 940705) rom for MAME 0.139u1 (MAME4droid) and play Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Euro 940705) on your devices windows pc , mac ,ios and android! Guides: "[13], In 2007, CraveOnline users ranked Darkstalkers as the ninth top 2D fighter of all time, with the staff calling it "a Capcom title that was essential in the further development of Capcom's 2-D fighter dominance" and "a surprise hit that paved the way for many great games after it. [1] According to art director Akira Yasuda however, a colleague of his named Akitomo was the one who came up with the idea of a monster fighting game,[2] and it was given form by planner Junichi Ohno (who Yasuda had worked together with on Captain Commando). Play this on your Android / iOS / Windows Phone device! This is the Europe version of the game and can be played using any of the Mame emulators available on our website. The King of Fighters 2002 Magic Plus II (bootleg), Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (USA 980123), Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (USA 950406). View all MAME emulators. Choose your favorite character, and master his or her unique moves to gain victory in various gameplay modes, such as arcade, training, tower, and network. [2], The development of The Night Warriors was during a time when most fighting games relied on stereotypes for character concepts and the character visuals had minimal variations; feeling that no one was really curious about the characters beyond what they saw on the screen, one of the first things Murata did was to add individuality, memorable traits, and several unique concepts to characters that were being cranked out by the designers. In Japan, Game Machine listed the game on their August 15, 1994 issue as being the second most-successful table arcade unit of the year. Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors features ten playable characters (Demitri Maximoff, Jon Talbain, Victor von Gerdenheim, Lord Raptor, Morrigan Aensland, Anakaris, Felicia, Bishamon, Rikuo, and Sasquatch), as well as two non-playable boss characters (Huitzil and Pyron) as the final opponents of single-player mode. Several licensed tie-ins were released for the game in Japan, including: A manga adaptation authored by Run Ishida was published in Japan by ASCII in 1996. Murata noted how some of the endings are dark or depressing, where the player is made to feel like the character cannot escape their tragic fate; he felt that made the game more interesting compared to other fighting games at the time. "[21] Yasuhiro Hunter of Maximum, in contrast, argued that Darkstalkers is one of the deepest and most difficult to master fighting games. At the time, Yasuda and several team members were working on an unrelated side-scroller game based on a manga, but the content itself did not follow the manga at all and when Yasuda realized the side-scroller would not succeed he canceled the game. [11] It was later adapted by Viz Comics under the title of Night Warriors: The Comic Series, which was published as a six-issue comic book which were later collected in a single trade paperback volume.