Since the days of dumping quarters in a greasy old Street Fighter II cabinet at the local pizza joint to throwing our custom arcade sticks across the room in a disgust after a huge loss in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, we here at IGN have dedicated our lives to our love of the fighting game genre. With Dead or Alive 5 coming next week, we figured we'd take a look back at some of the biggest, best and most controversial fighting games we reviewed this console generation. Which did we love? Which let us down? And how will Dead or Alive 5 stack up? Read on for more.
Which fighting games this generation consumed the most of your time and which were the biggest wastes of it? Let us know in the comments below.
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