While classic old school fighting games like Street Fighter II Turbo and Tekken 3 still rock, for every Mortal Kombat there are plenty of other great retro fighting games that either fell by the wayside or have all but faded into gaming obscurity.

But while a handful of franchises have dominated the arena for decades, there are literally dozens of great '90s fighting games that still hold up today. Samurai Shodown, by way of an example, is an old beloved fighting franchise, but its 2019 reboot (below) has been crippled by its netcode.Arguably the best type of game to sit back, unwind, and beat the living daylights out of a few friends (or AI opponents), fighting games have been a staple in gaming since the early Atari days. However, it necessarily causes a delay of a few frames between input and action, and as we’ve just discussed, any dropped frames at all can make a difference in the outcome of a match. when both players are in Japan) and under ideal circumstances, delay-based netcode works well enough.

If the system encounters lag, it shows up as extreme slowdown. Over relatively short distances (i.e. Under delay-based netcode, the game client waits until both participants in a match input a command before it updates what’s happening onscreen, which delays the onscreen action by a few sixtieths of a second. Ultimate, Tekken 7, Granblue Fantasy Versus, Soul Calibur VI, Samurai Shodown (2019), Dragon Ball FighterZ, and the newest version of Under Night In-Birth–use what’s called delay-based netcode for their online play, which is the current standard in Japan.

7 of the 9 main-stage games planned for this year’s Evolution tournament– Super Smash Bros. The organizers’ follow-up, though, was to promise to set up online events in place of Evolution, which has ended up highlighting a problem that fighting games have had for some time. On May 1st, the organizers behind the Evolution Championship Series in Las Vegas announced that the 2020 tournament was officially canceled thanks to COVID-19, marking the first year off the tournament’s had since 2002.

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