Game Gear

Fatal Fury Special

If you own a Game Gear, then you must run, not walk, to your local games store to get this cart. It's incredible. Better than the Game Gear versions of Samurai Shodown and Mortal Kombat II combined. Fatal Fury Special combines killer gameplay (it's fast!), amazing graphics and beautiful sounds to make an instant classic. Most of the fighters from the original Fatal Fury Special are represented here, each has an extensive bag of tricks and you can even link up with another player to play challenge matches. The next time you're on a plane, this game had better be in your backpack.

There are two games every Game Gear owner must own: Samurai Shodown and this one. Even if you're not big into the fighting game fad of the mid-90's, both of these games take the hardware to the max unlike so many other games on the console. Rest assured this is quality software for an otherwise dry console.

It's hard to find a good fighting game on the Game Gear, simply because it's just not feasible for most of the popular games that die-hard fight fans crave. FF Special is probably the best attempt so far and it proves that just because a game is small, it doesn't have to play like molasses.