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It took 12th place for the Grand Prix in the 11th Gamest Grand Prix (1997) run in the magazine Gamest (Shinseisha), as well as 8th for Best Fighting Game and 3rd for Best Presentation, and for Best Character Dan Hibiki took 3rd place and Sakura Kasugano 24th.
It appears as one of the 5 titles in the compilation Street Fighter Alpha: Fighter's Generation, released on 2006-5-25.
It appears as one of the 10 titles included in Capcom Fighting Collection, released on 2022-6-24.
It was ported in 1998 to the PlayStation, which retained the Pocket Fighter title for its North American and PAL releases, and then the Sega Saturn and WonderSwan, both in Japan only.
A pachinko game released by SANKYO, Fever Street Fighter II, which was released five years after Gem Fighter in Japan only, re-uses most of the sprites for five of the Street Fighter series characters from this game.
Two mobile-only spin-offs based on this game, Solitier Fighter and Poker Fighter were released for cellphones in 2003 in Japan.
Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "The game itself is distracting fun for two players (although utterly mindless as a single-player game) and again, amusing.
Also, on Capcom's Japanese mobile phone site "Capcom Party", several cellphone games using the SD characters in the style of this title were distributed.
It was ported in 1998 to the PlayStation, which retained the Pocket Fighter title for its North American and PAL releases, and then the Sega Saturn and WonderSwan, both in Japan only.
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