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A Continuation Of A Dream
Doujin developer. Also known as "夢の続き". Developed Alice Senki and Alice Senki 2, which contains various characters from AliceSoft.
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AAAA Games
The only real quadruple-A title developers! It's right there in their name!
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Abby Trott
Voice actress. Also sang the intro theme to Smash Ultimate.
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Accend Inc.
Makers of Violent Vengeance - The Universe Hero.
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Acclaim
Well known for continuously pumping out ports and licensed games, most of which of dubious quality. Folded in 2004, resurrected as an MMO company two years later.
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Accolade
Defunct developer with a mixed bag of classics (Turrican, Test Drive) and crap (Bubsy, Ballz).
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Activision
The first third-party developer in console game history. Known in the golden ages for Atari 2600 classics such as Pitfall! and River Raid. They rarely do stuff in-house now, and are most known for series that suffer from sequelitis, such as Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk.
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Adam Harrington
American voice actor, best known as Bigby in The Wolf Among Us.
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ADK
Alpha Denshi Corp., Ltd. While they were around before the Neo Geo, their heyday was undoubtedly on that system. Apparently absorbed into SNK at some point around the Neo Geo's demise.
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adopted
Is adopted or otherwise taken in by characters who are not blood relatives.
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Advanced Pico Beena
A second educational console from Sega and their final console outing. Released in 2005 and supported until at least 2011. Like its predecessor, its fighting games content consisted of a bunch of tokusatsu titles that came with mini-games and a Paint program.
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Aeria Games
Japanese developer and publisher of mobile/smartphone games. Co-developed Gangan!! Battlerush with SEM & O.
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Affect
Game developer of many mahjong titles and some CLAMP licenses.
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african
Born in, or a citizen of, any part of Africa not specified by another tag.
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afterlife
The fight takes place in one of the three kingdoms of the afterlife (heaven, hell, purgatory) or a variation of either.
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age_shift
Can change their bodies age appearance at will (Ex: A Child that can change into an adult, an elderly adult who can change into a young adult.)
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Agumix
A defunct Japanese company that developed adult games for computer systems between the late 1980's to the mid-1990's.
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AI
Frequent collaborator of HudsonSoft. Subsidiary?
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aikido
Uses the defensive martial art of Aiki-jūjutsu and/or some of its variants, like Aikido, Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu, or other fictional variations.
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ainu
A member of the ethnic group known as Ainu, which are indigenous to northern Japan and southeastern Russia.
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Air Also
Can also execute while in mid-air.
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air_dash
Capable of dashing or retreating in mid-air.
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air_throw
A throw type attack that only works air to air.
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Akabei Soft2
Japanese eroge developer. Formely known as Akabei Soft.
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AKI
Developer primarily known for wrestling titles.
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Akihiko Mori
Legendary Japanese composer. Died January 8, 1998.
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Akiman
Akira Yasuda, the famous Capcom character designer of yore.
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Akimine Kamijyo
Creator of Samurai Deeper Kyo ("Akimine Kamijyo" is her pen-name).
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Akio Nojima
Japanese voice actor. Father of Kenji and Hirofumi.
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Akira Toriyama
Famous manga creator, often tapped to design characters.
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Alan Tudyk
American actor, usually of sci-fi stuff and Disney voices.
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albino
Skin is unusually pale, lacking pigment.
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Aleks Le
Vietnamese-born American voice actor.
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Alex Ahad
Alias oh8 or o_8. Creative director and creator of the Skullgirls and Indivisible characters and lore.
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Alexis Tipton
American voice actress. Seemingly a go-to stand-in for Laura Bailey, but she's made her own career in addition.
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Alfa System
Responsible for porting a great deal of things to the Turbo CD, the Godzilla 2D fighters was however their own creation. Currently sort of floating by on their flagship shmup, Shikigami no Shiro.
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Alias
An alter-ego or alternate personality utilized as needed.
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Alice in Gensou Land
Doujin dev behind Touhou Dream Duel, a "fangame" in the Touhou universe (due to the licensing of the Touhou series, it's not canon but is legal).
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Alice Soft
Japanese eroge developer. Mostly known for creating the Rance series.
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alien
Of a race or species extraterrestrial in origin.
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all_or_nothing
A high risk maneuver that performs next to no damage if it fails (miss / block)
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Allumer
Relatively non-prolific Japanese developer.
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Altacia
Japanese visual novel game developer founded sometime in 1993 until officially folding in early 2008. They developed and published games for the NEC PC-9801 home computer and later on for Microsoft's Windows systems.
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AM2
A subsidiary of Sega, properly known as Sega Amusement Machine Research and Development Department 2. Responsible for a majority of Sega's more popular fighting game titles.
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AM3
Former Sega studio later known as Hitmaker. Responsible for many arcade titles, including much of the Virtual-On Series.
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Amanda Lee
Anime theme cover singer (AmaLee/LeeandLie on YouTube) and voice actress.
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amateur_wrestling
Uses some form of Olympic-oriented wrestling, such as freestyle / Greco-Roman / collegiate styles.
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american
Born in, or a citizen of, the United States of America.
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Ami Koshimizu
The second Mai Shiranui, but also some other stuff.
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Amiga
Commodore's popular self-contained computer, it went through several incarnations, including the CD-based Amiga CD32. Home to ports of many popular fighting games, and some original titles as well.
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ammo
Some of their moves are governed by a stock set of ammunition allocated at the start of a round/match. Reloadable in some cases.
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amnesia
Has either forgotten / lost their memories, or had them taken away somehow.
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amputee
Missing one or more body parts.
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Amstrad CPC
Another one of those wacky computer systems from the 1980's.
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Amy Xu
Tough Love Arena co-creator
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Ancestor
Though related, the exactly nature is either ancient or otherwise indeterminate.
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Anchor Inc.
Company created by Masahiro Onoguchi, animator of Tekken 1-2 (Yoshimitsu), Soul Edge (Voldo, Siegfried, woman) and Tobal (Hom, Oliems, monsters).
They did a couple of experimental fighting games, but most of its input is related to WWE / early MMA titles and low quality manga games.
Had a close relation with SEGA, developing animations for Fighting Vipers 2 (Charlie, Del Sol, weapons) and Virtua Fighter 4 (Vanessa, Lei-Fei).
Anchor Inc. also developed "The Battle of Yu Yu Hakusho" subcontracted under Dimps, albeit uncredited.
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ancient_civilization
Takes place during ancient times (Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, etc.)
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And
Do the preceding and following simultaneously.
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Andrés Borghi
Andrés Borghi is an Argentinean multimedia producer. He designed The Black Heart for M.U.G.E.N release
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Android
Google's open-source mobile platform.
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Android TV
A microconsole running on Android technology, which has a generic download store such as from Google Play or Amazon. These releases do not include closed Android microconsoles such as OUYA or GameStick.
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Andy Gavin
Co-founder of Naughty Dog. Brother of Mitch.
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Angelica Porter
Tony Porter's daughter. Recorded some (initially) scratch dialogue for Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid which ended up being used anyway.
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animal_ears
Character is otherwise human (or appears to be), but has the ears of an animal ("kemonomimi" in Japanese). Also fits characters that wear faux animal ears as a fashion statement.
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animal_kingdom
A member of the animal kingdom (possibly intelligent, but not anthromorphic). Includes robot and alien/otherworldly animals as well.
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animal_print
Often seen wearing the print of a particular animal, such as a leopard, tiger, zebra, etc.
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animal_shaped
A move (normally a projectile) that takes the shape of an animal of some sort, but is not an actual animal).
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animalia
Applies to arenas in which one or more animals can be seen.
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animalia
Cast consisting mostly of animals (animal-people, were-people, robot animals, whatever)
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anime_manga
A licensed title based on an anime or manga series, or something that tries harder than usual to emulate various tropes thereof.
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Announcer
Announcers in fighting games normally call out the character names, rounds, winners, and sometimes color commentary.
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antenna
Sports one or more antennae, or similar-looking appendages.
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anti_air
Distinctly targeted to thwart incoming airborne opponents.
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Any Direction
Any directional input besides Neutral is acceptable.
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Any Kick
Press any available kick button.
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Aorn
Developers of EA's Rabbit and some other stuff.
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Aplus
Company behind a couple of ArcSys' River City/Kunio-Kun games, as well as a Kill la Kill one.
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Apogee
Big daddy of MS-DOS shareware back in the day.
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App Land
A small Japanese company, who focusing on developing web and mobile technology. They have created a virtual YouTuber called: Dennou Shoujo Siro.
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Apple II
Apple's second computer system, released in 1977.
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APPSolute games
Mostly mobile developer with a notoriously terrible pun name.
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Aquaplus
A Japanese company founded in October 1994 that specializes in the publishing and distribution of visual novel games under their brand Leaf which produces adult games. Prior to their visual novel distribution, they're also involved in music, franchised restaurants, and at one time in the distribution of automobiles.
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arachnoid
Strongly associated with any form of arachnid (spiders, scorpions, ticks, etc.); utilizes webs, summons arachnids, arachnid motif in costume, IS an arachnid, etc.
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Arc System Works
Development House led by Daisuke Ishiwatari, best known for their alternative fighting game series, Guilty Gear.
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arc_projectile
A projectile thrown or launched with a distinctive arc, often with a rainbow-like trajectory.
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Arcade
Blanket term for unique or otherwise uncommon JAMMA hardware.
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ArcForged
Indie developers behind noted Sonic the Hedgehog fighting fangame "Sonic Smackdown" and the original medieval fighter "Origin of Storms".
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Archer Maclean
British programmer best known for his pool and puzzle games (some of which bear his name in the title), but nevertheless made strong contributions to early fighting games.
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Area Zero
Doujin developer. Also known as 領域ZERO.
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Argonaut
Developers behind the engine for Nintendo's Star Fox and Super FX chip. Released some other quality games later in life like the delightful I-Ninja, but nailed their coffin shut with the Catwoman movie game.
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Arika
Founded by Street Fighter II co-creator Akira Nishitani, they developed the Street Fighter EX games with Capcom, and produced some of their own fighters. Other than assisting Crafts & Meister with Super Dragon Ball Z, they've mostly stuck to puzzle games as of late.
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Arix Team
Korean developer, in business since 1990.
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armband
Wears a band (of cloth, usually) on one arm, normally over a shirt sleeve. These are used for signification or a black one for mourning.
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armor
Most or all of the game's characters are equipped with some sort of armor, which can be broken or deteriorated throughout the game via combat.
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Ars
Doujin developer. Created the fighting game Wild Disorder.
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Art Department
Artists, animators, and any other individual for graphic presentation.
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