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First fighting video game with equal number of male fighters and of female fighters?

What was the first fighting video game where the number of male fighters and the number of female fighters in the game’s roster are exactly equal? Yellow Sunstreaker (talk) 00:49, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Do you mean like mixed tag-team wrestling? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:39, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

I mean fighting video games. Yellow Sunstreaker (talk) 04:09, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

There are some ideas at [1]. --Viennese Waltz 12:05, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Rotten Tomatoes

Should Rotten Tomatoes still be a reference for the articles about movies on Wikipedia? It seems like the gap between what the score they and the audience give to movies is sometimes huge. 1.55.216.23 (talk) 10:07, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Critics and popular audiences are often looking for different things. I remember Barry Norman absolutely slating RoboCop 2 and a young me thought "yes, I agree it's going to be tosh, but of course I'm going to go love it". --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:19, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

And then there's the opposite: "Sure, it may be a sensitive, nuanced portrayal of the human condition, but how many cars explode into gigantic fireballs ?" SinisterLefty (talk) 18:26, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

There's more info at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Film#Critical_response. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 17:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)