History VideoGame / BurningRival

The game itself does make a few small appearances in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/HighScoreGirl''.

* '''Santana''', a MaskedLuchador known as the "flaming wind of Mexico", who's trying to raise money for the operation of his sick sister Lena.

* '''Bill''', an UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball player and former crime syndicate henchman who [[TheAtoner wants to patch things up and live his life with his wife and daughter]].

* CherryTapping: If your character manages to finish off their opponent on the ground off with a light punch or kick, a prompt exclaiming "FINISH" will appear for a few seconds while your opponent is stunned, allowing you to knock out your opponent anyway you'd like.

* KickChick: Outside of the traditional ninja moves, a lot of Asuka's attacks revolve around the use of her legs, which is easily noticible given she doesn't have anything covering them.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, the company wanted to do something different. Just have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime, making that the game's selling point. On top of that, the game itself seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made of the game since has been Asuka's cameo in the opening of several Sega Ages re-releases on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games along with VideoGame/AlexKidd. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

* AnimationBump: The main selling point of the game. Instead of going for the standard realistic/pixel-look of the time, the animation of the player characters and background characters were hand-drawn, digitally colored, and inserted in to the game in a manner that made them look almost as if they were ripped straight from an anime, similar to what ''VideoGame/GuardianHeroes'' would do a couple of years later.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, the company wanted to do something different. Just have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime, making that the game's selling point. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made of the game since has been Asuka's cameo in the opening of several Sega Ages re-releases on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games along with VideoGame/AlexKidd. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, the company wanted to do something different. Just have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime, making that the game's selling point. [[NoExportForYou Its only known release was in Japan]], despite having a [[BlindIdiotTranslation hilariously bad English version]]. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made of the game since has been Asuka's cameo in the opening of several Sega Ages re-releases on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games along with VideoGame/AlexKidd. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: There's a presumably bootleg version of the game that was translated to English, but a lot of translated dialogue is either broken or too literal, containing several misspellings and grammatical oddities.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, the company wanted to do something different. Just have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime, making that the game's selling point. [[NoExportForYou It's only known release was in Japan]], despite having a [[BlindIdiotTranslation hilariously bad English version]]. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made of the game since has been Asuka's cameo in the opening of several Sega Ages re-releases on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games along with VideoGame/AlexKidd. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

* DownerEnding: Asuka's ending unlike all of the other characters, or in the case of Arnold, who has more of a BittersweetEnding. [[spoiler: Even after beating her opponents, she herself completely bruised up, the search for her brother proves fruitless and she forces herself to keep searching.]]

* ObviousBeta: While clearly playable, the game is severely unpolished. Some examples include the character select and versus screens, and the end credits looking very unorganized and unfinished and many of the fonts look bulky, ill-fitting and ugly. This isn't even including the botched translation of the English version. Jackson's KO voice clip is also mixed with his normal hit voice clip unless his KO is a slamming grab.
** In terms of gameplay, a lot of the mechanics are bugged. An example is characters having a tendency to make their opponents swiftly fly on the other side playfield, sometimes either off camera or out of bounds, only pop right back on camera.
** Whenever you enter a MirrorMatch, which is usually the semi-final opponent, the game switches over the opponent's colors for the remainder of the game. When you start the game, your upcoming opponent will always be revealed, and if you choose your character's first battle to be a mirror match, this makes ''all'' of the remaining opponents use their mirror match [[PaletteSwap colors]] throughout the game, including Shingen who is fought twice no matter who you play as. He appears once as a normal fighter and the next time as the FinalBoss, sometimes leading to an immediate rematch or a BookEnds scenario. The final boss version of him is nothing more than his alternate mirror match color with presumably a slightly higher difficulty, meaning that there's a chance (guaranteed when playing as him) that he will appear with this palette twice.
** Even worse is when the game is played through emulators like MAME, as the most of them can't run the game properly create even more bugs that make you wonder if they are supposed to be a part of the game or not. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hED8zMuiJ3c Here's a properly-running version of the game for a reference.]]
* PaletteSwap: A strange case of being able to maniuplate which set of palettes you want your opponents to have, but cannot manually select your player's palette without another person present and switching cabinets.

* ShesGotLegs: Asuka doesn't have anything covering her legs and a lot of her attacks use them.

* {{Animesque}}: The main selling point of the game. Instead of going for the standard realistic/pixel-look of the time, the animation of the player characters and background characters were hand-drawn, digitally colored, and inserted in to the game in a manner that made them look almost as if they were ripped straight from an anime.

* Animesque: The main selling point of the game. Instead of going for the standard realistic/pixel-look of the time, the animation of the player characters and background characters were hand-drawn, digitally colored, and inserted in to the game in a manner that made them look almost as if they were ripped straight from an anime.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, the company wanted to do something different. Just have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime, making that the game's selling point. [[NoExportForYou It's only known release was in Japan]], despite having a [[BlindIdiotTranslation hilariously bad English version]]. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made to the game since was Asuka's cameo in the opening of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch release of the Sega Ages port of ''VideoGame/{{Columns}}'', being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games in the series of re-releases. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

* DownerEnding: Asuka's ending unlike all of the other characters. [[spoiler: Even after beating her opponents, she herself completely bruised up, the search for her brother proves fruitless and she forces herself to keep searching.]]

* ObviousBeta: While clearly playable, the game is severely unpolished. Some examples include the character select and versus screens, and the end credits looking very unorganized and unfinished and many of the fonts look bulky, ill-fitting and ugly. This isn't even including the botched translation of the English version.
** In terms of gameplay, a lot of the mechanics are bugged. An example is Bill's tendency to make his opponents swiftly fly on the other side playfield, sometimes out of bounds, only pop right back on camera.

* FightingClown: Many of Mr. Chin's match-ending animations show that he's silly and a times [[ManChild child-like]] in addition to already being a fairly large guy who's a complete [[LargeHam ham]].

* BlindIdiotTranslation: There's a version of the game that was translated to English, but a lot of translated dialogue is either broken or too literal, containing several misspellings and grammatical oddities.

* DevelopmentGag: Not exactly confirmed, but the final image of Arnold's ending shows him in a group shot along with what appears to be early versions of six of the other fighters. Aside from Bill's lack of an analogue, Many of them match up in design and/or concept with the final characters.

** Shingen is fought twice no matter who you play as, once as a normal fighter and the next time as the FinalBoss, sometimes leading to an immediate rematch. The final boss version of him is nothing more than his alternate MirrorMatch [[PaletteSwap color]] with a slightly higher difficulty. Whenever you face your own mirror match, the game switches over the opponent's colors for the remainder of the game. When you start the game, your upcoming opponent will always be revealed, and if you choose your character's first battle to be a mirror match, this makes ''all'' of the remaining opponents use their mirror match colors throughout the game, including Shingen who will will appear with this palette twice.

* PaletteSwap: A strange case of being able to choose which set of palettes you want your opponents to have, but cannot manually select your player's palette.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Asuka is this game's only female player character, which has unsurprisingly made her the game's most popular character.

* VideoGameSliding: Asuka's crouching heavy kick.

* '''Bill''', an UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball player who [[TheAtoner wants to patch things up and live his life with his wife and daughter]] after becoming a henchman of a crime syndicate.

* TheProtagonist: Arnold, being the standard karate man architype found in fighting games.

* '''[[TheProtagonist Arnold]]''', a karate expert who accidently killed his master while training and [[MustMakeAmends wants to make up for it]] by aiming ToBeAMaster.

* '''Santana''', a MaskedLuchador known as the "flaming wind of Mexico", who's trying to raise money for his sick sister Lena's operation.
* '''[[FinalBoss Shingen]]''', the ghost of a cursed Japanese samurai formerly known as Shingen Yagyu.
* '''[[FightingClown Mr. Chin]]''', an overweight kung-fu master looking to expand his Chinese restaurant business.
* '''[[TheSmurfettePrinciple Asuka]]''', a {{kunoichi}} searching for her long lost brother.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, the company wanted to do something different, Just have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime, making that the game's selling point. [[NoExportForYou It's only known release was in Japan]], despite having a [[GratuitousEnglish hilariously bad English version]]. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made to the game since was Asuka's cameo in the opening of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch release of the Sega Ages port of ''VideoGame/{{Columns}}'', being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games in the series of re-releases. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

* PaletteSwap: A strange case of being able to choose which set of palettes you want your opponents to have, but cannot manually select your player's palette.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, wanted to do something different and have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime, making that the game's selling point. [[NoExportForYou It's only known release was in Japan]], despite having a [[GratuitousEnglish hilariously bad English version]]. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made to the game since was Asuka's cameo in the opening of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch release of the Sega Ages port of ''VideoGame/{{Columns}}'', being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games in the series of re-releases. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

** Shingen is fought twice no matter who you play as, once as a normal fighter and the next time as the FinalBoss, sometimes leading to an immediate rematch. The final boss version of him is nothing more than his alternate MirrorMatch color with a slightly higher difficulty. Whenever you face your own mirror match, the game switches over the opponent's colors for the remainder of the game. When you start the game, your upcoming opponent will always be revealed, and if you choose your character's first battle to be a mirror match, this makes ''all'' of the remaining opponents use their mirror match colors throughout the game, including Shingen who will will appear with this palette twice.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, wanted to do something different and have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime. [[NoExportForYou It's only known release was in Japan]], despite having a [[GratuitousEnglish hilariously bad English version]]. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made to the game since was Asuka's cameo in the opening of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch release of the Sega Ages port of ''VideoGame/{{Columns}}'', being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games in the series of re-releases. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, wanted to do something different and have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime. [[NoExportForYou It's only known release was in Japan]], despite having a [[GratuitousEnglish hilariously bad English version]]. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has never made a port or re-release of the game. The only known acknowledgement Sega has made to the game since was Asuka's cameo in the opening of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch release of the Sega Ages port of VideoGame/{{Columns}}, being among several older Sega characters (mostly females) presenting the games in the series of re-releases. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.

!! This game and provides examples of:

So what's the plot? Several fighters from around the world gather in the middle of America in pursuit of battle. Some are doing it to hold honor for themselves, friends, and family members while others are doing it for pride and recognition. Among these brave fighters are:

* '''Bill''', an American football player who [[TheAtoner wants to patch things up and live his life with his wife and daughter after becoming a henchman of a crime syndicate]].

It's painfully clear that [[FollowTheLeader this was made to capitalize on the success of]] ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', but this being during the height of Sega's innovative stride, wanted to do something different and have all of the characters animated as if it was a hand-drawn anime. [[NoExportForYou It's only known release was in Japan]], despite having a [[GratuitousEnglish hilariously bad English version]]. On top of that, the game itself is an ObviousBeta that seems to have had a very rushed development. As a result, this is one of the few Sega-produced titles that has been all but lost and forgotten to time, as the company itself has made a port or re-release of the game. Capcom eventually took notes and began using a similar art style in their fighting games, starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game and ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom''.