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Breakers

TitleBreakers
First release1996
DeveloperVisco Corporation
PublisherSNK
PlatformsArcade, Neo Geo
Genrefighting game
Players1–2 players
Co-opNo
Releases
Neo Geo: 1996-03-21
Arcade: 1996-12-17 (Other)
Wikidata IDQ2924231

Somewhere in Hong Kong, two martial artists face each other in a vast courtyard. The challenger is a stout man in brown skin. The ground has been tainted with blood. However, his crescent blade hasn't touched his opponent yet. It was a one-sided battle. He was already exhausted and it won't be long before he would fall. "Fool, you will become one of my family" resounded the opponent's voice, as the challenger crumbled to the floor and was turned into sand. The Fighting Instinct Tournament, or FIST, is a tournament as fierce as its name suggests. There was no shortage of martial artists who entered the tournament seeking fame, and yet there were many who left the tournament as corpses. The last challenger who remains in this lawless tournament gets to challenge the organizer of the tournament, the Head of the Huang Financial Clique, for the chance to win the massive prize money. The martial artist who can manage to defeat him will obtain the honor of truly calling him or herself the strongest. However, none of the martial artists who were chosen to challenge the champion in a private final match have ever come back alive. Nobody knows when exactly the tournament is held, since only an avaricious will was spiraling over there. The sponsor is actually an evil spirit who possessed the body of a modern man from Hong Kong who has established a selection system to amplify his dark powers. The FIST tournament has gathered numerous participants from around the globe and another sacrifice will be chosen this year.

Description: TheGamesDB (community-contributed, no licence stated; internal use only) Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from TheGamesDB and Arcade Database (ADB). Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.
Sources
Wikidata (Q2924231) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0
TheGamesDB (25605) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
TheGamesDB (6469) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
Arcade Database (ADB) (breakers) · last updated 2026-10-02 · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · internal use only
Arcade Database ADB
MAME romsetbreakers
Title at ADBBreakers
ManufacturerVisco
Year1996
GenreFighter / Versus
Players2
MAME driver statusGOOD
Breakers – Flyer
Flyer
Breakers – Marquee
Marquee
Breakers – Cabinet
Cabinet
Breakers – Title
Title
Breakers – In-game
In-game
Artwork: ADB (Arcade Database); artwork © original manufacturer (Visco); snaps by ProgettoSnaps via ADB. Non-free, internal use only (hotlinked, not downloaded).
Scraping using Arcade Database by motoschifo · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · romset via Wikidata P2451 (wikidata-qid) · fetched 2026-10-02 16:46 UTC · no fields filled (other sources take precedence)
Image credits
Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, Other release) · © SNK · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Box art, Screenshots, Logos (3): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © SNK · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Sprites
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Videos
Breakers Arcade Gameplay Playthrough Longplay By Urien84
By Urien84 Longplays · Arcade version · longplay · 22:13auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:41 UTC
Breakers (Neo Geo AES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
NintendoComplete · Neo Geo version · longplay · 30:04auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:42 UTC
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