Sango Fighter
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| Developer(s) | Panda Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Panda Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Super A'Can |
| Release date(s) | 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Fighting game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | OFLC: G8+ |
Sango Fighter (武將爭霸) is a fighting game for DOS made by the Taiwanese Panda Entertainment and released in 1993. Set in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, it is very similar to Street Fighter, but with historical context. This game was one of the first, along with Super Fighter, to show great quality 2D computer graphics in this genre on the PC platform.
Shareware developer and publisher Apogee Software was planning on licensing and releasing the game in the United States under the title Violent Vengeance, but the plans for the deal fell through. Instead, the game was distributed in English under its original title by a Taiwanese company named Accend, albeit without official permission from Panda Entertainment.
In 1995, Taiwan's fledgling 16-bit Super A'can game console saw release of a cartridge version of Sango Fighter, completely programmed inhouse by one employee of Panda Entertainment. Being a rushed port from the PC version using a confusing and buggy Super A'can development kit, this version of the game suffered from stale, awkward gameplay and quite a few glitches, making it a joke in comparison to the tightly-programmed and very entertaining PC original.
The game was illegally ported to the Sega Master System console, with the name Sangokushi, and released only in South Korea. This port is one of the larger games in the console library, with 8 megabits of data size.
A sequel was released in 1994, Fighter in China 2, with more characters and more detailed graphics. Fighter in China 2 also featured a conquest mode in which the player attempted to unify the empire by invading other nations. In addition, the kingdom of Wu was added to the game.
There may have also been a planned, but unfinished 3D sequel by Panda Entertainment.[1] However, the former owner of Panda's intellectual properties stated that no records of any such title exist.
"Sango" is a rough romanization of Three Kingdoms. Using pinyin, it would be romanized as "san guo".
While Sango Fighter was quite popular in Taiwan, a lawsuit by C&E Inc. (producers of the PC fighting game Super Fighter) stopped Panda Entertainment from distributing the game, let alone adapting it to other machines. Thus the game was never able to reach its full market potential.
On February 24, 2009, the full legal rights to both Sango Fighter and its sequel were acquired by the North American company Super Fighter Team. Following this, on June 18, 2009, both Chinese and English language editions of the game were released as freeware on the Official Sango Fighter Website.[2]
[edit] Characters
The following is a list of the playable characters from Sango Fighter.
- Guan Yu
- Zhang Fei
- Zhao Yun
- Ma Chao
- Huang Zhong
- Xiahou Dun
- Xiahou Yuan
- Xu Huang
- Xu Chu
- Dian Wei
- Lü Bu
- Cao Cao
The following additional characters are available in Sango Fighter 2.
Cao Cao is not a playable character in Sango Fighter 2, but he retains a role as a character within the story. Liu Bei, Sun Quan, Sima Yi, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu also serve as story characters.
It is also interesting to note that, even though Sun Ce served as leader of the kingdom of Wu historically before his death, in Sango Fighter 2, he is made a subordinate of his younger brother.
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