# Does anyone know why many of Capcom’s excellent fighting games stayed in Japan during the Saturn era?

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**Created:** [June 14, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/does-anyone-know-why-many-of-capcom-s-excellent-fighting-games-stayed-in-japan-during-the-saturn-era/2006 "2020-06-14T01:55:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vespa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/vespa/32/405_2.png) [@Vespa](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Vespa)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/does-anyone-know-why-many-of-capcom-s-excellent-fighting-games-stayed-in-japan-during-the-saturn-era/2006/41 "2020-06-17T12:23:59Z")

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So no demo written on it anywhere? that’s so cool.

I miss my CVG mag collection, it got destroyed by a leaky shed 😕 At least you know your mags are being appreciated by someone!

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**Author:** ![D.Lo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/d.lo/32/4116_2.png) [@D.Lo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/D.Lo)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/does-anyone-know-why-many-of-capcom-s-excellent-fighting-games-stayed-in-japan-during-the-saturn-era/2006/42 "2020-06-17T21:38:55Z")

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The official releases were via email, so it’s only what people have kept and collated.

Neogaf has a bunch of it, eg:

> **[\*Classic Sales-Age\* MARCH 1995 TOP40 & HW (SNES\>\>GEN!)](https://www.neogaf.com/threads/classic-sales-age-march-1995-top40-hw-snes-gen.128453/)**
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> NBA Jam Tourney continues to rule along w/ Donkey Kong:
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> Five weeks
> U.S. Sales Only:
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> FFIII has legs! 
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> SNES pulls further ahead of GEN thanks to DKC...
> Will Genesis sales continue drop in anticipation of Saturn?
> Jaguar has a price drop (was...

Magic Box has the 1995-2007 Platinum list collated

[http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml](http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml)

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**Author:** ![harborline\_765](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/harborline_765/32/5947_2.png) [@harborline\_765](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/harborline_765)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/does-anyone-know-why-many-of-capcom-s-excellent-fighting-games-stayed-in-japan-during-the-saturn-era/2006/43 "2020-06-18T08:48:19Z")

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Great thank you, I’m glad it’s been archived somewhere, looking forward to poring over this!

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**Author:** ![Tetsamaphone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/tetsamaphone/32/14546_2.png) [@Tetsamaphone](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Tetsamaphone)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/does-anyone-know-why-many-of-capcom-s-excellent-fighting-games-stayed-in-japan-during-the-saturn-era/2006/44 "2020-07-01T00:51:22Z")

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While I liked that they covered imported games and plugged the Marvel Vs. games, they also bagged on games that weren’t 3-D. IIRC they also complained about the gameplay style of SOTN and Pandemonium as being old fashioned and feeling 16 bit.

It was a strange time. Personally I would have loved to see a 2d saturn game made using all that it could do just to find out how good it really was. I mean Tempo looks really good. That Taomaru game also looks pretty good (can’t vouch for quality though because of $$$). But if I had known about them back int he day, I would have probably sought them out.

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