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Hiryū no Ken S: Golden Fighter Super Nintendo
A brawler and fighting game and the first Super Famicom game of the Hiryu no Ken (Flying Dragon) series from Culture Brain. It was followed by an updated version which would later be released in the US as Ultimate Fighter.
Hiryu no Ken S: Golden Fighter is the first game in the Hiryu no Ken/Flying Dragon series to be released on the Super Nintendo. Rather than "Super", the S in the title actually stands for Special.
The game contains a single-player mode which works like a Final Fight type brawler, only without the freedom to move up and down the screen. This mode has intermittent boss encounters which play out like Street Fighter one-on-one fights. There is also a versus mode for up to two human players that features a plethora of characters that do not appear in the story.
The game was later rereleased as Hiryu no Ken S: Hyper Version. Though largely the same game as Golden Fighter, it received a few performance and gameplay tweaks as well as new enemy placement for the single player mode. This updated version would be released in the US as Ultimate Fighter.