Barry Pearson replied to the topic Guess that Game | Game Gear 30th Anniversary Edition Week #4 in the forum Game Gear 3 years, 9 months ago
Street Fighter would have been a fair guess as the game did establish the character tropes that fed into Virtua Fighter, as well as many other beat’em ups.
Akira is a Ryu surrogate with Pai standing in for Chun-li.