Eternal Champions is a
2D fighting game developed by
Sega, and released in 1993.Hoping to ride this wave of success of the fighting game, bolstered by the recent successes of
Street Fighter II (1991),
Fatal Fury (1991) and
Mortal Kombat (1992), Sega developed Eternal Champions for their
Genesis and
Sega Mega-CD systems. While the game never caught on due to its limited availability, among other reasons, it did employ various features that were well ahead of their time, including stage fatalities or "overkills", being much more story-driven, reflective projectiles, forcefields, training rooms filled with elaborate traps, and a new method of executing moves which to this day still remains fairly unique in the fighting game genre.
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