Blood Warrior

Blood Warrior
European arcade flyer of Blood Warrior.
Developer(s)	Atop
Publisher(s)	Kaneko
Composer(s)	Tatsuya Watanabe
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release date(s)	1993
Genre(s)	Fighting game
Mode(s)	Single player, 2-player
Arcade system	Kaneko AX System
CPU	68000 (@ 16 MHz)
Sound	Sound Chips : 2× OKI6295 (@ 12 kHz)
Display	Horizontal, Raster, 320 × 240 pixels, 32768 colors

Blood Warrior, known in Japan as Ooedo Fight (大江戸ファイト, Ooedo Faito^?), is a 1993 fighting arcade game developed by Atop and published by Kaneko. It is the successor to the 1992 fighting arcade game, Shogun Warriors, also developed by Atop and published by Kaneko. Unlike Shogun Warriors, Blood Warrior uses digitized images of real actors within the game instead of traditionally drawn sprites, and is clearly inspired by and similar to Midway's Mortal Kombat franchise when it comes to both presentation and violence.

The gameplay of Blood Warrior is quite similar to many of the 2D fighting games of the same era. However, Kaneko seem to have taken much of their inspiration from the Mortal Kombat franchise in terms of over the top gore and violence; however, Blood Warrior's predecessor Shogun Warriors predates Mortal Kombat in featuring blood, while Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior predates Mortal Kombat in featuring death moves.

There are nine playable characters, and two bosses. Like its predecessor, the Japanese version contains original voice samples, while the North American and Worldwide versions were dubbed in English for some characters.