Discover
Editions
More
Extra
Explore our other sites
Dead or Alive
Team Dead or Alive
November 25, 1996
Genres
Fighting, ArcadeDevelopers
Team Dead or AliveRelease Date
November 25, 1996 (28 years and 3 months ago)Publishers
TecmoContent Rating
T Suggestive Themes, Animated Violence
Franchises
Dead or Alive
Discover Games
Summary
Dead or Alive is a fighting game and the first entry in Team Ninja's long-running Dead or Alive series. Its most defining features were its speed and countering system. Dead or Alive put an emphasis on speed, and relied more on simplistic commands and reaction time. Furthermore, its countering system was the first in the fighting genre to utilize different commands that corresponded to each type of attack. There are two kinds of holds, an Offensive Hold (OH) and a Defensive Hold (DH). The latter are executed by holding back or forward on the directional pad along with the guard input to either force away or counter-damage an opponent. The Playstation port of the game was later backported for arcade and titled Dead or Alive++.
Genres
Fighting, ArcadePlatforms
Sega Saturn, ArcadeDevelopers
Team Dead or AliveRelease Date
November 25, 1996 (28 years and 3 months ago)Publishers
TecmoContent Rating
T Suggestive Themes, Animated Violence
Franchises
Dead or AliveCommunity
More from Team Dead or Alive
Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com
Dead or Alive News
Not much in the hybrid shooter-slasher makes sense, but I don't care because it's hilariously bonkers
The sixth episode of HBO's series is packed with fascinating points of similarity and difference from the game
Sony’s games-on-demand library has hundreds of PS4 and PS5 games—here’s where to start
By
After last week’s bold adaptation, HBO's series gives us an episode packed with moments from the game
With its knockout third episode, HBO's series shows what an adaptation can do when it actually adapts
Recap: Anna Torv's Tess gets a troubling moment in the spotlight in S1E2 of HBO's adaptation
The UFC commentator called Team Ninja’s fighting game ‘so addictive’ and thought its maid girl was ‘fucking hot’
Yes, it's another dungeon-crawling board game adaptation of a popular video game
Whether you want to land a kill streak or a headshot, these are the greatest FPS games on modern machines
Advertisement