The first FG with parry?

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So I was working on a video covering the history of the parry in fighting games, and I ran into a bit of dilemma. I was convinced that Weaponlord (1995) was the first fighting game to have a parry mechanic. However, digging deeper, I’ve found multiple websites saying that Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (rofl) was the first to have parrying. Just to be extra trolly, the website that apparently originally made the claim (segafans.com) is gone, and outside of a couple of youtube comments, I can’t find any videos or evidence that there is parrying in the game. THAT said, a blogpost that mentions parying in DDV says it was ‘unintentional’, which I’m assuming means it’s some sort of glitch involving blocking, but once again, I have no actual evidence of it.

So basically, I’m making this post because I figure /someone/ on SRK has got to know this, haha.

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Samurai Shodown 2(1994) still predates weapon lord.

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Excellent. Thank you. Anything to not have to cover DDV is great by me.

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some sort of proto-parry, when swords clashed together only

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2v-hLk5Aoo

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In World Heroes 2 (April 1993) you can reflect projectiles by blocking at the last possible frames.

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That’s more a clash system then a parry system.

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This, besides, it was possible to counter-throw an opponent in response to his throw (however, this quickly degenerated in a button smashfets where the first player to throw won anyway).

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Go to the second or third match. There is a scene where the player winds the sword in circles. That is for defense and can be considered some sort of parry.

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correct me if i’m wrong, but I think geese howard was the first fighting game character to have a parry. and was playable. at least on home consoles and after using a cheat code to unlock him.

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Technically an inashi/reversal not a “parry” in the way most people think of them.

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game IMO with first real parry I believe was Killer Instinct 2. if your opponent went for an overhead, you’d mash jab or something and your character does a move where they stick out their arm and deflect the attack, to which you could counterattack.

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Killer Instinct 2 was 1996.

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Geese Howard in Fatal fury Special (1993) has a command parry. It operates in a similar way to Dudley’s Cross Counter in that it has an animation you are locked into and it has an auto-reposte (throw), but you don’t take any damage if you land it.
I guess these are all parries, but people will only think of how the SF3 version operates.

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People used to call this type of move “Geese counter” because that was the first of its kind IIRC.

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That’s a counter. Not a Parry. You may as well call Counter Supers Parry Supers.

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Then counter hits…
Dat art of the intercepting fist = parry.

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A Counter is different from a Parry. A Counter goes into a specific move that is an automatic followup from whatever it was Countering (High, Low, whatever). A Parry nullifies the attack and allows you to follow up with whatever you want.

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geese had his counter in ff1 also, i remember the megadrive version you done it by just pressing back and C, it stopped EVERTHING

Yeah i always thought it was ss2 also, ss3 also had the parry which was 95, also gave it a wiff animation to

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I know… I was just saying that if you have counter moves as “parries”, then you should also include counter attacks.
Neither of which make any sense.

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EDIT: Sorry for this mess, I don’t know why the extra stuff keeps on poppping out. Anyways, I was wondering if there was a thread or wiki that details the history of fighting game mechanics such as this and others like when the first super meter was.