History VideoGame / SailorMoonS

* GameMod: ''[[https://newchallenger.net/w/index.php/Sailor_Moon_Fighter_S Sailor Moon Fighter S]]'' is a hack of ''[=SuperS=]'' that translates all the text into English while also providing gameplay tweaks, a few more alternate colors for each character, and even a few new characters such as...uh...[[spoiler: Raphael from ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'']], for some reason...

''Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen'' or simply ''Sailor Moon S'', is a 1994 FightingGame based on the ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' franchise for the [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. The game was published by Angel with the development work secretly done by a then unknown developer named Creator/ArcSystemWorks.

Finally, at the Evo 2018 tournament, Arc System Works eventually admitted to having developed the game after years of not saying anything.

Today, thanks to word of mouth and the efforts of the game's fans, ''Sailor Moon S'' now has a decent sized tournament scene and is a staple side tournament in many fighting game competitions, including Evo.

The video game gives some of the Sailor Senshi original attacks not seen in the manga or anime - for example, Sailor Mars' Fire Heel Drop and Sailor Jupiter's Double Axel. Some of these attacks would carry over to future ''BSSM'' fighting games. Naturally, the characters are all voiced by the original Japanese seiyuu as well.

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* DifficultButAwesome: Sailor Uranus's infinite combo, which requires the player to quickly forward dash in between her attacks.

* GameMod: ''Sailor Moon Fighter S'' is a hack of ''[=SuperS=]'' that translates all the text into English while also providing gameplay tweaks, a few more alternate colors for each character, and even a few new characters such as...uh...[[spoiler: Raphael from ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'']], for some reason...

* LethalJokeCharacter: Chibi Moon. While most of her attacks are quite weak, the little spore can dodge most projectile attacks easily, and her ''[=SuperS=]'' desperation move - Twinkle Yell, in which she summons Pegasus to attack her adversary - is pretty powerful. She is also the only character that can make herself completely invincible [[DifficultButAwesome albeit through the use of a frame perfect back dash.]]

* TheOneGuy: In the hack, ''Sailor Moon Fighter S'', the single male character isn't even Tuxedo Mask, but [[spoiler: Raphael from ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'', of all people! He's also the TokenNonHuman, the only male mutant turtle.]]

* {{Shoryuken}}: Sailor Neptune's uppercut as stated above. Also happens to be her defining attack for players of the game, thanks to how safe it is on block.

''Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen'' or simply ''Sailor Moon S'', is a 1994 FightingGame based on the ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' franchise for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. The game was published by Angel with the development work secretly done by a then unknown developer named Creator/ArcSystemWorks.

During the 2000s, import copies of the game made their way to the west and into the hands of the UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity. This resulted in the game getting played in gatherings and [[TournamentPlay tournaments]].

A follow up game exists called ''Sailor Moon [=SuperS=] Shin Shuyaku Soudatsusen'' for the Super Famicom, and later Sega Saturn, which adds Sailor Saturn as a playable character. However, this version is generally seen as inferior to the original due to a number of gameplay changes.

* MagicSkirt: Mostly played straight (the intended audience ''is'' young girls, after all), but a few attacks do provide some [[PantyShot Panty Shots]], such as Sailor Moon's HK or Mercury's desperation move.

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* GameMod: ''Sailor Moon Fighter S'' is a hack of ''[=SuperS=]'' that translates all the text into English while also providing gameplay tweaks, a few more alternate colors for each character, and even a few new characters such as...uh...[[spoiler: Raphael from ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters''...]]

* MagicSkirt: Mostly played straight (the intended audience ''is'' young girls, after all), but a few attacks do provide some [[PantyShot Panty Shots]], such as Sailor Moon's HK or Mercury's [=SuperS=] desperation move.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Chibi Moon. While most of her attacks are quite weak, the little spore can dodge most projectile attacks easily, and her ''[=SuperS=]'' desperation move - Twinkle Yell, in which she summons Pegasus to attack her adversary - is pretty powerful. She is also the only character that can make herself completely invincible, [[DifficultButAwesome albeit through the use of a frame perfect back dash.]]

->''This is the resulting anarchy that forms when there's no-one to listen to what the "zoning is cheating" guy has to say. ''Sailor Moon S'' is the pre-John [=McCain=] MMA of fighting games: Adapt, or get your eyes gouged out. It's amazing how the Toronto 'Sailor Moon'' community can endure such unregulated waifu cockfighting. It's almost as if they're part of a community that celebrates salt as a driver of adaptation, instead of a means to strongarm game developers into patching out anything that seems remotely good.''

-->-- '''WebVideo/CoreAGaming''', [[url=https://youtu.be/ZbjSeBOP-MA "Analysis: The Effects of Salt"]]

* JokeCharacter: Chibi Moon
** On the other hand, the little spore can dodge most projectile attacks easily, and her ''[=SuperS=]'' desperation move - Twinkle Yell, in which she summons Pegasus to attack her adversary - is pretty powerful.

Released only in Japan, the game was one of a number of fighting games based on licensed properties that was released during the genre's golden age in [[TheNineties 90's]]. However, unlike [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames most of these]], it turned out that ''Sailor Moon S'' was actually a pretty good game. Partly helped by the fact that it was one of the first fighting games to come with an honest to goodness training mode.

* HitStop: Standard for any fighting game. However, like most nineties fighter, it doesn't really have a lot of this.

Finally, at the Evo 2018 tournament,Arc System Works eventually admitted to having developed the game after years of not saying anything.

** Sailor Moon's fireball cross up mix up. This requires that the player backdash to get her in the air low enough so she can throw her air fireball close to the ground. This allows her to land and then immediately do her long range forward dash to overtake her fireball and cross up her opponent.

''Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen'' or simply ''Sailor Moon S'', is a 1994 FightingGame based on the Franchise/SailorMoon franchise for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. The game was published by Angel with the development work secretly done by a then unknown developer named Creator/ArcSystemWorks.

''Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen'' or simply ''Sailor Moon S'', is a 1994 FightingGame for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. The game was published by Angel with the development work secretly done by a then unknown developer named Creator/ArcSystemWorks.

A follow up game exists called ''Sailor Moon SuperS Shin Shuyaku Soudatsusen'' for the Super Famicom, and later Sega Saturn, which adds Sailor Saturn as a playable character. However, this version is generally seen as inferior to the original due to a number of gameplay changes.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Averted. ''Sailor Moon S'' is now considered to be one of the best fighting games released during that period and has developed a significantly sized competitive scene as a result.

''Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen'' or simply ''Sailor Moon S'', is a 1994 FightingGame for the UsefulNote/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem. The game was published by Angel with the development work secretly done by a then unknown developer named Creator/ArcSystemWorks.