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J. David Brimmer
Voice actor and fight coordinator. Sometimes credited as Michael Alston Bailey (or some other permutation thereof).
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J.Y. Company
Developers and publishers of a number of unlicensed NES games and hacks, including the infamous 7 Grand Dad.
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Jackie Chan
Hong Kong martial arts actor, born Chan Kong-sang.
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Jade Xu
Martial artist, stunt actor, and mocap artist.
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Jae-Lee Productions
An one-man indie studio dedicated solely to making fighting games based on vintage martial arts flicks.
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Jaguar
Atari's 64-bit resurgence to the console world, it promised to be better than its 16 and 32-bit competition simply because it had more "bits". Viewed as a curiosity due to its complicated gamepad, toilet lid-shaped CD add-on, and late night informercials.
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Jail
Indie dev of the atmospheric Flat Form Fighter.
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Jakks Pacific
Creates licensed action figures and "Plug it in & Play TV Games" dedicated consoles.
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Jaleco
Short for Japanese Leisure Corporation, this company was founded in 1973. Published lots of obscure games in the 1980's and 1990's.
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James Arnold Taylor
American voice actor, known for voicing Obi-Wan in most animated Star Wars works. Also Johnny Test.
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James Hong
American actor. If you don't know him as David Lo Pan, you probably know him as "that old Asian guy who is in everything."
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James Sie
American voice actor and frequent Jackie Chan stand-in.
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Jamieson Price
American voice actor. Sometimes credited as Taylor Henry.
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Jani Jakovac
Actress, singer, pianist, and pro volleyball player. Quite the resume.
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japan
A game centered entirely around the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Japan Vistec
General multimedia developer. After developing some critically-panned 3D fighting games, they somehow became SNK's main outsourced 3D game developer.
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japanese
Born in, or a citizen of, Japan.
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japanophile
Enamored with all things Japan, strives to be more Japanese.
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Jason David Frank
Tommy of the Power Rangers, also a karate dōjō franchise owner and MMA fighter.
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Jason Donovan
Australian actor known for voicing the eponymous character of the Buzz! quiz games.
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Jason Griffith
4Kids actor who is both loved and hated for his portrayal of Sonic.
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Jason Marsden
American voice actor. Not related to James, though their wives have been best friends since childhood.
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Jay Ward
Not the same Jay Ward who made Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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JB Blanc
French-born American voice actor.
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jeetkunedo
Practitioner of the martial art of Jeet Kune Do, founded by Bruce Lee.
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Jeff Manning
American-born English-speaking voice actor living in Japan.
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Jeff Nimoy
American voice actor and casting director. Cousin of late actor Leonard Nimoy.
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Jesse Hooker
Voice of "Portgaz D. Trace" in the 4Kids dub of One Piece.
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jetpack
A character who embraces the future and actually has one of these neato contraptions.
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jewish
Adherent of the early Abrahamic religion of Judiasm.
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jiangshi
Based on the Chinese "hopping vampire" myth, also known as kyonshi in Japanese.
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Jim Wallace
Voiced multiple roles in Final Fight Revenge.
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Jim Ward
American voice actor. Died December 10, 2025.
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Jin Yong
Louis Cha Leung-Yung (March 10, 1924 - October 30, 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong, was a prolific Chinese/Hong Kong writer. His works have been harvested more than once for fighting game concepts.
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Jìngluò Liú
Chinese voice actress. Credited as Seira Ryū in Japanese works.
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Joe Alaskey
Prolific voice actor most prominently featured in Looney Tunes media. Died February 3, 2016.
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John Burgmeier
Writer and voice actor for Funimation. Son of Linda Young.
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John Kuwaye
Lead programmer on the Eternal Champions series.
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John Tobias
Co-creator of Mortal Kombat. Although he left Midway and the series in 1999 to start Studio Gigante, he later returned to illustrate the MK vs. DC Universe comic book.
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John Turk
Bodybuilder and former officer of the Chicago PD.
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Jon Hey
Sound technician and voice actor.
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Jorudan
Japanese developer responsible for the Ultraman fighter Taiketsu! Ultra Hero as well as One-on-One Government, the basketball game which is actually pretty close to a fighting game.
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judo
Uses the martial art of judo or its hard form counterpart, jujutsu.
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Jump
Press the Jump button.
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June Yoon
South Korean-born American voice actor.
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JungleTac
Developers of the games on most of those cheap-ass multi-game consoles that somehow are legally sold in stores.
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Jupiter
Company best known for the Picross series, among other puzzle games.
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Just Add Monsters
A video game developer founded in 2000 in Cambridge, England. Kung Fu Chaos was the first game the company created. It would later become Ninja Theory, known for developing Heavenly Sword and Enslaved.
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JVP
Johnson Voorsanger Productions, later ToeJam & Earl Productions.
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