What are your top 10 Fighting Games?

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1. Street Fighter III: Third Strike
2. Super Street Fighter II: Turbo
3. Marvel vs. Capcom 2
4. Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 2012
5. Mortal Kombat 2
6. King of Fighters XIII
7. Guilty Gear X2 Reload
8. Darkstalkers: Vampire Savior 2
9. Virtua Fighter 5
10. Soul Calibur
Honorable Mention: Samurai Shodown 2

This was a really hard list for me. It's listed primarily in terms of my own opinion relating to each title's posterity as much as my own enjoyment of each title. If I'd listed strictly on which two games I'd had the most fun with over the years, Third Strike and Vampire Savior 2 would be far ahead of every other game on the list. I decided not to limit myself to one game per franchise. If I had, it would look quite a bit different, but sorry Killer Instinct fans, KI still wouldn't be on my list even in that case. That game was lame ;)

Edit:
As a bonus, I'll add three of my favorite fighting game stage tunes, but I won't include any Guilty Gear stages since they are all incredibly badass and too hard to rank against each other, and avoiding Guile theme because of internet meme status although it is probably the greatest of all time. None the less:

#1. Ryu - SF Alpha 3 (The Road) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6WgNe5HZ8
#2. Eiji - Battle Arena Toshinden : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsepz84sK5k
#3. Kim Jae Hoon - Garou: Mark of the Wolves (Too Honest) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fOPXRVmNHE