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NA P.S. Team
Developed Shadow Fighter for the Amiga and remain active to this day in the console market.
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nails
Frequently uses natural fingernails or claws to fight, as opposed to an external claw weapon.
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Namco
Most well-known for arcade games like Pac-Man and Dig Dug. Developed two very popular fighting game series - Soulcalibur and Tekken. Currently within a merger with Bandai, as Namco Bandai games.
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Nanae Katō
Japanese voice actress, best known for the title character of Croket!
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Naoko Takeuchi
Mangaka of Sailor Moon. Married to YuYu Hakusho/Hunter X Hunter mangaka, Yoshihiro Togashi.
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Naomi
Arcade version of Dreamcast hardware, employs proprietary GD-ROM format.
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native_american
Associated with the American Indian, often in a quite stereotypical way involving feathers and tomahawks.
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Natsume
Prolific and generally high-quality developer, although nowadays they're mostly coasting by on Harvest Moon.
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Naughty Dog
Known today for Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter, once cut their teeth on Way of the Warrior for 3DO.
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Navel
Japanese visual novel developer consisting of former members of BasiL, including Hiro Suzuhira and Aoi Nishimata, the illustrators for Shuffle!.
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NCS
NCS Masaya, Japanese developer and proud owner of the Ranma 1/2 license for a while.
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Neal McDonough
American actor. Despite his respectable career, he was also M. Bison in the Chun-Li movie.
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Near
Must be outside of throw range but roughly within/around normal attack range to execute the following.
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NEC Avenue
A Japanese media company, was the development division of NEC. It was merged with other studios to form NEC Interchannel (now Interchannel, Inc.) in 1995. They were mainly credited for developing and publishing Sega ports for the TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine in Japan), though they also published a number of Sega-related albums.
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necromancer
Is shown to have control over the dead/undead as part of his or her fighting style or character background.
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Necrostorm
Italian company primarily known for producing gore films; they branched out into gaming with Death Cargo.
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Neil Baldwin
Musician who apparently also does some programming.
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Nekki
Russian developer whose games mostly star silhouettes.
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Neo Geo
Refers to both the arcade MVS and home AES versions of the hardware; SNK's ubiquitous arcade workhorse.
Max 330 Mega, Pro-Gear Spec.
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Neo Geo CD
Most, but not all titles on the Neo Geo were ported to this more affordable but slightly less than perfect home system.
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Neo Geo Pocket
SNK's brief expedition in handheld gaming, released in b/w and color variations.
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nepali
Born in, or a citizen of, Nepal.
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Nesco
South Korean publisher.
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NetherRealm Studios
Subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, made up of the former employees of Midway's Chicago office that remained at the time of WB's purchasing of the rights of Midway's properties.
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Neutral
Allow joystick to return to the neutral position.
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Neverhood Inc.
A short-lived video game developer named after their first game, the critically-acclaimed adventure game, The Neverhood. Boombots, was their third and last title before they went out of business.
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new_challenger
A new character added specifically to a fighting game based on a previously established universe (such as a licensed property or non-fighting game).
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new_zealander
Born in, or a citizen of, the island country of New Zealand.
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NewKidCo
Developer of a bunch of lame childrens' games based on properties that are older than Jesus.
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Nextech
Former name of the now-defunct Nex Entertainment. Worked as a developer of titles for other companies, mainly licensed titles, ports and IP sequels. Their main fighting game input were upgraded Toshinden ports and D-Xhird, a spiritual successor to them.
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N-Gage
Nokia's side-talkin', taco phone of a blunder.
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Nico Galis
One-person seal under which just one game was finished, although some progress had been reached with other projects.
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nigerian
Character was born in, or lives in, the country of Nigeria.
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ninja
Practitioner of the martial art of stealth and espionage, ninjutsu, or is a member of a clan of arcane assassins.
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Nintendo 3DS
The successor to the DS, it has two screens and a stereoscopic 3D option.
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Nintendo 3DS eShop
Downloadable games for Nintendo's 3DS platform. Includes Virtual Console.
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Nintendo 64
Released in 1996 with 64-bits and a cartridge format, it failed to make a huge impact, but being a Nintendo system, was able to ride on the waves of fanboys.
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Nintendo DS
In many ways, the successor to the Gameboy Advance, despite what Nintendo says. Like the Game & Watch games of yore, it has two screens. It also has touch screen capabilities and a built-in microphone. The 2008 upgrade, the Nintendo DSi, brought many additions, including two built-in cameras and downloadable games. For whatever reason, most mainstream fighting game series have yet to find their way to the DS.
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Nintendo Entertainment System
The long reign of Nintendo's console king was winding down just as Street Fighter 2 hit the big time. As such, very few fighters found their home there, if you don't count Hong Kong bootlegs.
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Nitroplus
Eroge visual novel company, known for their collaboration with @term=typemoon_comp@ to create the light novel series, Fate/zero. @term=5pb_comp@ has also collaborated in publishing some games to home consoles, most recently Steins;Gate, released in 2009.
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No Motion
Japanese comedy duo consisting of Tomoyuki Yano and Hoshino Kotetsu. They have several routines that are based around fighting games.
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no_kicks
Character's arsenal consists almost entirely of punch moves, even when "kick" buttons are pressed.
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no_multiplayer
These games fit all of the normal criteria for a fighting game, but do not offer multiplayer versus play. Excludes differing ports from the main release (such as handheld versions).
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no_punches
Character's arsenal consists almost entirely of kick moves, even when "punch" buttons are pressed.
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Nobutoshi Canna
Japanese voice actor. Also credited under his birth name of Nobutoshi Hayashi.
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Noise Factory
Subsidiary of SNK Playmore, they assisted on a few SNK properties, but also gave a shot at Rage of the Dragons and a couple of Power Instinct titles.
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Nolan North
Nolan North voices everybody. Including you. And the Nolan North that voices you, is also voiced by Nolan North.
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Nova
Minor game company dedicated to doing licensed games for other developers.
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Now Production
Japanese development company. Does a lot of work with Bandai, Namco, and Konami.
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NRF
Game Studio NRF, a doujin developer.
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nStigate Games
Formerly known as Nihilistic Software, and currently known as absolutely nothing, since they closed up shop in 2012.
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nudity
Utilizes the removal of clothing or deliberate lack thereof in the attack.
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nullify
Able to "eat" projectiles without suffering chip damage or frame disadvantage.
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numbers
Has Arabic numbers on their clothing/body somewhere.
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nWay
An indie mobile dev who was working on a tap-and-swipe fighter that was shelved. Somehow then got the rights to a Power Rangers version of the same, then a full-fledged Power Rangers console fighter.
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