Capcom is a gaming company that needs very little introduction to most. Plying their electronic trade since the late seventies, they really came to solidify themselves as gaming powerhouses in the late eighties and nineties. With the release of titles such as Street Fighter 2, Final Fight, and then Resident Evil, Capcom revealed their true power levels and became a force to be reckoned with, and challenged, in the world of gaming.
Excluding "in-house" crossovers such as Canon Spike, Puzzle Fighter, and Street Fighter X Mega Man, here is a list of the times Capcom characters have hashed it out with those from different company franchises.
10 Cross Edge
With characters from Capcom, Bandai Namco Games, Nippon Ichi Software, and Gust Corporation, this cross-over game is multi-company competitive. A traditional Japanese role-playing game developed by Idea Factory, Cross Edge is a 2008 release.
Bringing together characters such as Morrigan and Felicia from Capcom’s Darkstalker to battle with Hiro and Felenne from Idea Factory’s Spectral Souls and Laharl and Etna from Nippon Ichi’s tactical role-playing game Disgaea. A turn-based, teams battle game, Cross Edge is available on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
9 X-Men vs Street Fighter
Here is a standalone title that almost certainly ushered in a tradition of fighting game crossovers. Released in 1996 on the Sony PlayStation X-Men vs Street Fighter feels like a tester game before expanding on the full capabilities of a Marvel crossover.
Featuring the classic 90s cartoon team of X-Men - Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, and Gambit – going up against the likes of Ryu and Ken, this game really did spark the imagination of those who encountered it. X-Men vs Street Fighter also introduced the tag-team style of competition where players could pick two players for each match.
8 Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
A continuation of the previous title and a standalone stopgap between inception and having a fully evolved franchise, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter is perhaps more obscure than the first entry.
Released in 1997 after the X-Men felt they couldn’t handle Ryu and his team and had to draft in Captain America, Spiderman, and co. Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter is a forgettable title that only made minor improvements on the prior X vs SF. One of them being super combos.
7 Namco x Capcom
First released on the PlayStation 2 in 2008 Namco x Capcom is similar to X-Men vs Street Fighter in that it helped to spawn further titles. A tactical role-playing game that combines the characters of Namco and Capcom into a game format unnatural to some.
Featuring classic Capcom crossover mainstays Ryu and Ken, alongside Final Fight’s Guy and Darkstalkers’ Felicia going up against other fighting game powerhouses such as King, from Namco’s Tekken series. Namco x Capcom is the first time fans see some of the characters clash, but not the last.
6 Project x Zone
The successor to Namco x Capcom, coming seven years later in 2015 on the Nintendo DS is Project x Zone. While not the second game to see characters from these two great enterprises clash, it is the second role-playing game.
Featuring Capcom’s Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine from Resident Evil and Lady from Devil May Cry pitting their wits against opposing foes. Taking on Sega’s Zephyr and Leanne from Resonance of Fate and Akira Yuki and Pai Chan from Virtua Fighter, Capcom’s champions face a mighty test.
5 Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
Released for the Nintendo Wii in 2010 Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars is a delightful crossover. Featuring many of the Capcom heroes and heroines fans have come to love, this game introduces a host of characters from anime series that were made by Tatsunoko Production.
Another game to utilize the tag-team system first seen in X-Men vs Street Fighter, this 2D fighting game is a visual treat by Eighting game developers. Outside of our classic Capcom fixtures, the game also featured Frank West from Dead Rising and PTX-40A from Lost Planet.
4 Street Fighter x Tekken
The second game to see Namco and Capcom characters duke it out, but the first to do it in a good old traditional fighting game format. After the success of the Marvel vs Capcom series specifically, questions about dream fight franchise matchups were often thrown about. This is one such match-up of potentially legendary status. Challenging for the titles of 2D and 3D kings respectively, this really is a clash of the titans event.
Street Fighter x Tekken was released in 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, seeing the original Street Fighter team going up against a host of Tekken classics including Jack-10, Law, and Yoshimitsu.
3 Capcom vs SNK
While Marvel had tested the waters for crossover battles with Capcom, SNK took advantage of this to rage battle in a couple of formats. Released over several years from 1999 was a series of poorly received card games for handheld consoles, SNK vs Capcom: Card Clash Fighters. The first real fighting crossover was released on the NeoGeo in 1999, before the game’s true emergence on the world stage with Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 on the Sega Dreamcast.
This now well-established series of back-and-forward crossovers saw Capcom’s champions help resurrect titles such as SNK’s King of Fighters from obscurity.
2 Marvel vs Capcom
The longest-running, and perhaps the most popular, of Capcom's feuds is their evolving clashes with the Marvel universe. Street Fighter-focused predecessors aside, the Marvel vs Capcom series has put out six games over a twenty-year period across more than numerous platforms.
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes was first released in 1998 and kick-started a host of innovative fighting games. The original was followed up with the universe merging sequels: New Age of Heroes, Fate of Two Worlds, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Marvel vs. Capcom Origins, and 2017’s Infinite.
1 Super Smash Bros
Since the very first game in the series released in 1999 on the Nintendo 64, Super Smash Bros has always aimed to bring together the skills of cross-company competitors. While a Nintendo development and not Capcom, it deserves its spot due to popularity alone.
Over the years Super Smash Bros has seen a collection of Capcom champions willing to try their might against Mario, Metroid, and Link. Arthur from Ghosts 'n Goblins makes an appearance alongside Zero from Mega Man, and, of course, Capcom’s fighting figureheads, Ryu and Ken.