Samurai Shodown (Samurai Spirits in Japan) is the name of a fighting game series by SNK. The stories in the series take place in 18th-century Japan, during the Sakoku or seclusion period of Japan ...

Many iconic samurai characters in video games, ... Instead of an English navigator, he’s reimagined as an Irish pirate with ...

Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits: Bushidō Retsuden, initially released by SNK for the Neo Geo CD in 1997, was one such exercise, and now even fans who don’t speak Japanese can play the game in full.