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After Street Fighter II was released in 1992, there followed an endless procession of fighting games. In addition to the endless Street Fighter II enhancements and sequels, Mortal Kombat games and seemingly unlimited supply of SNK fighters for Neo Geo hardware, there were many more obscure fighting games as well. Galaxy Fight is one of those.
Galaxy Fight (subtitled “Universal Warriors”) was originally released as an arcade game, not surprisingly on Neo Geo hardware, in 1995. The only other home conversion was for the Sega Saturn. This was only Sunsoft’s second fighting game with the first having been released only in Japan. Galaxy Fight has the usual array of characters, moves and special moves that you would expect of a 2D fighter.
The concept behind Galaxy Fight is a galaxy wide fighting tournament with characters from all over the galaxy. I guess that concept makes it pretty easy to have some pretty varied characters. There are a total of eight playable characters including characters that look like monsters, aliens, robots and more. There are also four non-playable bosses.
Galaxy Fight received pretty average reviews overall. There was nothing particularly wrong with it but it just didn’t stand out in a deluge of similar games. However, if you are a 2D fighter aficionado then I don’t see why you wouldn’t want to check it out. There isn’t a huge difference between the Neo Geo and Saturn versions (other than soundtrack). The Saturn version was based off of an unreleased Neo Geo CD version of the game. In addition to tracking down an original Neo Geo or Sega Saturn version, this game was also released as part of Arcade Archives for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in 2017 (though I have no idea if it’s still available that way). And of course there are also various emulation options. There was also a PlayStation version that was released only in Japan and Europe.
There were no direct sequels to Galaxy Fight but Sunsoft did release another game a year later called Waku Waku 7. It used the same game engine and was similar in quite a few other way, including having a Galactic theme. Waku Waku 7 was released only in Japan.
Screen shots above are from the Sega Saturn version of the game.