Super Fighter Team

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Established by salesman and game designer Brandon Cobb, Super Fighter Team is a videogame development, production and publishing company based in San Diego, California, USA. The company focuses mostly on long abandoned video game systems such as the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the Atari Lynx.

While Super Fighter Team was officially registered with the state of California, and thus founded, in May of 2004, its roots go back many years prior. The company's namesake is the PC fighting game, Super Fighter, which was developed in Taiwan by Computer & Entertainment (C & E) Inc., and first released in 1993. The game so interested Cobb that he began to create a modest yet informative website about it which was officially launched on August 3, 1998. By 2000, the website's content had been translated into Chinese and shortly thereafter, Cobb was contacted by former employees of C & E who helped him get into contact with the company's president. Cobb gained exclusive rights to distribute the original Super Fighter game for free, as well as create new games based on its characters and content.[1]

Thus, Super Fighter Team was initially founded as a company whose goal was to localize and improve upon Taiwanese videogames in preparation for proper worldwide release. Their first commercial effort of this kind was a localization of the C & E developed role playing adventure game, Beggar Prince, which began shipping to customers on May 22, 2006. The release of Beggar Prince marked the first American commercial release for the Sega Genesis in eight years and was a big success for retro-gaming standards.

Remarkable is that Super Fighter Team puts much effort in trying to produce games the way games for the system were sold during the hardware's original lifespan. That means in the case of the Sega Genesis that plastic clamshell cases were produced along with cartridges in the original shape and a full color manual. Usually products of this kind only come in cardboard boxes with a short note as manual.

Currently Super Fighter Team is working on their first self-developed game called Super Fighter Block Battle for Symbian-based mobile phones. They are also working on a new RPG for the Mega Drive, which is as well as Beggar Prince an English version of a Taiwanese game. Zaku, an upcoming game for the Atari Lynx, is another title that will be published by Super Fighter Team. It is the second homebrew game for the console.