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Fight for Life is a 1996 fighting video game developed and published by Atari Corporation in North America and Europe for the Atari Jaguar. It was the final game to be developed and published by Atari themselves before dropping support for the platform and merging with JT Storage in a reverse takeover on July 30, 1996, and the last fighting title released for the console. Set in a purgatory dimension known as the Specter Zone, Fight for Life follows eight deceased fighters as they enter a tournament held by a shapeshifting being called the Gatekeeper, who will bestow a second chance at life to the winner. Its gameplay consists of one on one fights, with a main eight button configuration, featuring special moves and the ability to customize character's movesets, as well as four different playable modes. Directed, designed and solely programmed by former Sega AM2 member Francois Yves Bertrand as Atari's answer to Virtua Fighter, Fight for Life started development in the second quarter of 1994 and had a troubled development cycle, undergoing various changes before its late release on the system. Fight for Life was met with negative reviews; while some praised the ability to customize the characters with stolen movesets from fighters, the slow pace and controls were widely seen as crippling flaws.

Fight for Life is a polygon based fighting game similar to Virtua Fighter and Tekken, in which the player fights against opponents in one on one matches. The fighter who manages to deplete the health bar of the opponent wins the bout and the first to win two bouts in a best of 3 match becomes the winner. Rounds are not timed. Similarly to Battle Arena Toshinden, characters can maneuver in the 3D environments by sidestepping to avoid upcoming attacks, allowing them to move around in a counter clockwise direction while still facing their opponent. Health bars are also not displayed during gameplay, instead, they are only shown once any of the characters have taken damage. Unlike most fighting games of the time, players begin with very few special moves and by defeating opponents, they can "steal" two special moves from them and build their unique fighter. The game features four modes of play and two types of camera movement, in addition to supporting both the Jaguar's ProController and standard gamepad. In the easiest mode, players do not fight against the final boss.

The Specter Zone is a purgatory dimension set between heaven and hell, which is overseen by a shape shifting being only known as the Gatekeeper, who forms a tournament for his own amusement and will bestow a second chance at life to any of the eight deceased fighters, all of which died in 1995. Several years later, Bertrand joined French developer Sisteme and worked on titles from the label such as Ballarena and Erotictac. He would also later form his own game development company in France, Eterna, developing and publishing several titles for the Acorn line of home computers, such as Blaston. Bertrand helped Silvio Porretta, whom he had met during an exchange of pirated games, to get a job at Atari, where he became the sole artist of Fight for Life.

Fight for Life entered into development in May 1994 and was handled by a small development team, with Francois Bertrand acting both as designer and director of the project, in addition of being its sole lead programmer. High Voltage Software also assisted in the development of the game by creating artwork as well, although they were not credited as such in neither the manual nor in the in game credits. Although Studio Gigante co founder Richard Ho acted as the art director of the project, Silvio Porretta was the sole artist for the game, creating both concept and texture artwork for the characters, with Porretta stating that he learned texture mapping under a few weeks and quickly adapted to the tools at his disposal. Fight for Life went through a troubled development cycle until it was released, with both Bertrand and Porretta stating that the reason why development took longer than expected was due to the state of Atari at the time as well as meddling from the company itself. The game made its first playable appearance at Atari's booth during the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in 1995, featuring improved visuals compared to the earlier version. It would also make appearance on the showfloor of events such as Spring ECTS '95 and E3 1995 in a nearly complete state, with the latter being its last trade show appearance prior to being launched and where Bertrand showcased the project to attendees of the event, in addition of being slated for a Q2/Q3 1995 release date and remained to be previewed across various magazines. It was also covered by the press who were invited to Atari's UK division. Despite development of the game being completed in December 1995, Bertrand did not deliver the game until much later to Atari, who began laying off their employees and cancelling upcoming projects for the Jaguar before merging with JT Storage in a reverse takeover on July 30, 1996. Although the game was released in 1996 as the final Atari published title for the Jaguar, Bertrand has since stated that the game was shipped in an almost finished state due to time and budget constraints, scrapping elements during the process. Despite rumors of a 100% complete build, there is no concrete evidence that this version exists, and Bertrand has said that to the best of his knowledge the scrapped elements were discarded rather than incorporated into a different build.