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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (fighting)

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is Capcom's 1998 CPS-3 arcade fighting game adapting Stardust Crusaders, sold in the West as JoJo's Venture. Its signature Stand Mode lets fighters call out their guardian spirit mid match for extra attacks and mobility, at the cost of added risk.

Genre: 2D fighting game
Platform: Arcade
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Release Year: 1998
Japan Release Date: 1998-12-02
North America Release Date: 1999-02-01
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Gameplay

Built on Capcom's established fighting game engine, the game uses power gauges for special and super moves alongside a new Stand Mode. Characters can summon or dismiss their Stand at will during a match, which changes their available moves and can grant extras like a double jump, but leaving the Stand out also means an opponent's hit on the Stand damages the user, adding a risk and reward layer on top of standard fighting game footsies.
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Premise

The game adapts Stardust Crusaders, Part 3 of the manga, in which teenager Jotaro Kujo awakens a Stand ability just as his mother's life is endangered by an uncontrolled one of her own. Jotaro and his grandfather Joseph Joestar set out to defeat the vampire Dio and his Stand using allies to save her, and the roster draws almost entirely from this arc's cast of heroes and villains.
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Release

Capcom releases the arcade board in Japan in December 1998 and in North America the following February under the title JoJo's Venture. Running on CPS-3 hardware, it becomes Japan's top earning arcade game in January 1999 and finishes as the third highest grossing arcade title of the year overall, success that leads directly to an expanded rerelease the following year.
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