Shadow Fighter (Amiga CD32)

We play an Amiga exclusive, it’s Shadow Fighter for the Amiga CD32 and you’ll see why it’s exclusive. WHO WILL WIN?!

Shadow Fighter is a 2D fighting game developed and published by Gremlin (in conjunction with NA.P.S. Team) for the Amiga exclusively in Europe on late 1994. An enhanced version was released in early 1995 (also exclusively in Europe) both for Amiga systems running AGA chipsets (namely the A1200 and A4000) and for the Amiga CD32 (adding an arranged soundtrack).

Developed as a collaboration between a team of Italian developers and the British software house Gremlin, Shadow Fighter is a traditional fighting game similar to Street Fighter II. It is known for being one of the few fighting games for the Amiga that has smooth animation (for both character sprites and parallax-scrolling backgrounds) and gameplay mechanics accurate to other popular fighting games of the time.

The game features 16 playable fighters from the start, all fighting in a mysterious international tournament set up in an attempt to challenge the mysterious Shadow Fighter (revealed in the manual as an undead 17th-century samurai seeking peace from his curse).