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released at the Comic Revolution 31 convention in May 2002 by Watanabe Seisakujo (now

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). The name of the game is a take on "'' Groove on Fight''", which is a sequel of the '' Power Instinct'' series, though other than that the two games have very little in common. The game was developed to test routines that the programmer would use in ''

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''.

Characters

The game features characters from various sources, including

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, and a company mascot. When the game is played for the first time, only five characters are available. Three more will be unlocked when the player progresses through the game (which are the three last opponents in the game), making a total of eight playable characters. There were two Flash videos by the character designer of this game and ''

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'', of . They were called "Glove on Fight" and "Glove on Fight 2".

Sequel

A sequel to ''Glove on Fight'' called was released on August 16, 2008.

References

External links

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Insert Credit's review of Glove on FightNTSC-uk looks at Glove on Fight and other Doujin games
2002 video games Crossover fighting games Doujin video games French-Bread games Japan-exclusive video games Multiplayer and single-player video games Video games developed in Japan Windows games Windows-only games {{boxing-videogame-stub