Another solid arcade game from SoftStar, Taiwan's best game company, Act of Fighter is a smooth side-scrolling beat-em-up set in Chinese history.

Aya is an excellent freeware Go program coded by Hiroshi Yamashita.

A worthy Virtua Fighter clone, Battle Arena: Toshinden pits a group of brave warriors against the evil Gaia and his henchmen.

Battle Arena: Toshinden 2 features graphics, sound, music, and action that makes its predecessor seem ancient! With updated moves and defense, the original cast launches back into battle! Newcomers join...

Too bad many people are discouraged to play this game because they think Chinese Chess is either not interesting or too difficult to learn.

One of the first semi-realistic side-scrollers for PC.

This is an amazing remake of the Commodore 64 version of Datasoft's famous Bruce Lee game, which was released for PC in 1984.

Fun martial arts game staring Asia's most famous martial artist.

Okay, so this may not qualify as an "underdog", since it did pretty well in stores.

I played this game endlessly with my little brother on our state-of-the-art IBM XT.