I'm posting here simply because we don't have a forum dedicated to game design here. I am not questioning NM's capabilities here and I bet one could make a fighter in it, but can it really be done?
Early fighters (Urban Champion, Yie Ar Kungfu) were very basic, they didn't have any special moves for the player characters. And while there were some attempts by the Chinese/Taiwanese gentlemen to port games like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter to NES (as an unauthorized port), they were in general pretty bad.
Does that mean that a fighter that's similar to SF2 or MK can't work with just two buttons or that no one had pulled out it yet?
Early fighters (Urban Champion, Yie Ar Kungfu) were very basic, they didn't have any special moves for the player characters. And while there were some attempts by the Chinese/Taiwanese gentlemen to port games like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter to NES (as an unauthorized port), they were in general pretty bad.
Does that mean that a fighter that's similar to SF2 or MK can't work with just two buttons or that no one had pulled out it yet?