If one character loses all of their vitality, then the tag partner will automatically come to play. The dormant character will able to recover a portion of their vitality, while the current character is fighting. During their taunt, they are vulnerable to counterattack. The starting character can tag the waiting one in at any time by hitting the Hard Punch and Hard Kick buttons, which activates the "Variable Attack" the tag partner will jump in with an attack and taunt briefly. The player controls one character at a time, while the other awaits off-screen. Instead of the usual best-two-out-of-three round format, the game 's matches consist of two-on-two battles between tag teams.
Street Fighter uses a system similar to the style developed in Marvel Super Heroes, and adds the tag team gameplay feature. When Apocalypse appears, stronger than ever before, Ryu's friends and the X-Men band together to combat Apocalypse, some for the purpose of saving the world, and some for their own evil agendas. However, the tag team feature was omitted from the PlayStation version due to memory limitations.ĭuring his travels, Ryu crosses paths with Cyclops and the X-Men, who show interest in Ryu's power. It was ported to the Sega Saturn in 1997 and PlayStation in 1998. It was the first game to blend a tag team style of combat with the Street Fighter gameplay, as well as incorporating elements from Capcom's previous Marvel-themed fighting games, X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes. It is Capcom's third fighting game to feature Marvel Comics characters and the first game to match them against their own, with characters from Marvel's X-Men franchise being matched against the cast from the Street Fighter series. Street Fighter(エックスメンVS.ストリートファイター) is a fighting game originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1996. For the standards body, see XMPP Standards Foundation.