The King of Fighters 2002
brings the series back to its roots by retiring the strikers and
swapping the excessive features from the past three games for an
enormous selection of characters. Now nothing stands between you and
your opponent as you battle for dominance! The King of Fighters 2002 is a 2002
competitive fighting game produced by Eolith and Playmore for the Neo
Geo. It is the ninth game in The King of Fighters series and the second
one produced by Eolith and developed by SNK Neo Geo (formerly
Brezzasoft). The game was ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and
the Xbox. The PS2 and Xbox versions were released in North America in a
two in one bundle with the following game in the series, The King of
Fighters 2003. NONA returns to do character artwork, as he has since the previous installment. SNK Play more has produced a remake titled
TheKing of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match for the PlayStation 2, which
has been released on February 26, 2009 in Japan. The Xbox Live Arcade
version was released on November 3, 2010. KOF
2002 discards the 4 VS 4 “Striker Match” format used in the previous
three games in the series and returns to the 3-on-3 Battle format
originally used in the series up until KOF ’98.
The King of Fighters 2001Spend some time with it and you’ll eventually realize that it’s one of the deepest, most technical 2D fighting games ever made. Arcade Game developer SNK officially went
out of business in 2001, but that hasn’t seemed to slow down what is
apparently a new generation of games for the company’s NeoGeo arcade
hardware. One of the last projects the company was working on was The
King of Fighters 2001, the latest edition in SNK’s annual fighting game
series, along with a new developer, Eolith. And while certain aspects of
KOF 2001 may seem very different from previous games, spend some time
with it and you’ll eventually realize that it’s one of the deepest, most
technical 2D fighting games ever made. It’s no secret that SNK’s NeoGeo hardware
is old. Over 10 years old. That’s why its games still use
low-resolution, hand-drawn sprites for its characters, rather than
switching to a 3D engine or at least using high-frame-rate,
high-resolution graphics. The age of the NeoGeo hardware seems painfully
obvious when you look at KOF 2001′s shoddy background stages, which
look generic at best and ugly and pixelated at worst. But over the
years, SNK’s artists have perfected a bunch of visual tricks to help add
detail to their characters and give them lots of personality. And KOF
2001′s characters have lots of personality as much as you’d expect from
SNK, a company with a history of making some of the most distinctive and
memorable 2D fighting game characters ever. You’ll see it in your
character’s win poses and taunts and in other extra animations. It’s
true (and unfortunate) that KOF 2001 reuses a lot of old character
animation from previous games, so that some characters especially the
newest ones–look better than others. But most characters have at least
some new animations, win poses, and special attacks–more than enough to
make each one more interesting than they were in the previous game, KOF 2000.
The King of Fighters Forever(KOF
Forever) is officially abbreviated KOF, is a series of fighting games
by SNK Playmore (formerly SNK). The series was originally developed for
SNK’s Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware, which served as the main platform for
the series until 2008, when SNK retired the MVS in favor of the
Atomiswave arcade board. Only two King of Fighters games were made on
the Atomiswave platform (The King of Fighters Forever Neowave and The
King of Fighters XI) before SNK decided to discontinue using the
platform for the series.
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The King of Fighters Game Collection List
The King of Fighter 94
The King of Fighter 95
The King of Fighter 97
The King of Fighter 98
The King of Fighter 99
The King of Fighter 2000
The King of Fighters officially
abbreviated KOF, is a series of fighting games by SNK Playmore (formerly
SNK). The series was originally developed for SNK’s Neo Geo MVS arcade
hardware, which served as the main platform for the series until 2004,
when SNK retired the MVS in favor of the Atomiswave arcade board. Only
two King of Fighters games were made on the Atomiswave platform (The
King of Fighters Neowave and The King of Fighters XI) before SNK decided
to discontinue using the platform for the series. The current arcade
hardware for the series is the Taito Type X2, with its first usage
coming with the release of The King of Fighters XII. Ports of the arcade
games and original The King of Fighters games have been released for
several video games consoles.
The first game in the series, The King of Fighters ’94,
was released by SNK on August 25, 1994. The game featured characters
from SNK’s previous fighting game series Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting,
as well as original characters (including characters from older games
such as Ikari Warriors and Psycho Soldier, adapted for a versus fighting
game). The success of the game led SNK to release yearly installments
of the series and numbered the games for the year they were released.
The King of Fighters ’95 was released on July 25, 1995, with several
ports being released the next year. In addition to adding new
characters, this game also began the first story arc of the series
titled “The Orochi Saga”. KOF ’95 was also the first game in the series
that allowed the players to create their own team of three members, out
of any character in the game. The King of Fighters ’96, released on July
30, 1996, establishes the second part of “The Orochi Saga” and replaced
the character sprites from the previous two years with newly drawn
ones, improving the gameplay of the series as well. Depending on the
playable characters in a team, an exclusive ending will be played. The
King of Fighters ’97, released on July 28, 1997, concluded “The Orochi
Saga” story arc. The King of Fighters ’98 was released on July 23, 1998,
and unlike the previous games of the series, it did not feature a
story. Instead, the game was promoted as a “Dream Match” game that
allowed players to choose most of the characters available from the
previous titles, including ones that were supposedly dead. SNK refitted
the Dreamcast version and renamed it The King of Fighters: Dream Match
1999 with an extended cel animated introduction and 3D backgrounds.
On July 22, 1999, The King of Fighters ’99 was released, which
introduced a new story arc known as “The NESTS Chronicles”. The game
introduces several new characters into the series, as well as the rule
of a fourth member being added to each team and that a new tactic is
introduced in this game as well. The tactic would be that a specific
person from a team would be an assistant called a “Striker” and that
this person would be able to aid the team for a few seconds in combat.
The Dreamcast version was titled The King of Fighters: Evolution, with
several improvements in the game such as new strikers and better
animation. The King of Fighters 2000 was released on July 26, 2000, and
is the second part of “The NESTS Chronicles”.
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RAM= 128 MB
Size= 279 MB
Video Memory= 32 MB
OS= Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8
