#The king of fighters: maximum impact series#
The success of the game lead to SNK to release yearly installments of the series and numbered the games for the year they were released. The game was designed to be a dream match of characters from the company's various arcade titles, particularly Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Ikari Warriors, and Psycho Soldier. The first game in the series, The King of Fighters '94, was released by SNK in 1994. Special Illustration by Hiroaki for the SNK Brand 40th Anniversary.
Aside from this, ports of the arcade games and original The King of Fighters games have been released for the various consoles of then and now, such as SNK's own Neo Geo Pocket, the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, the Sega Saturn and the Dreamcast, the PlayStation and Xbox series of consoles, and even the N-Gage, among others.The latest main game in the series, The King of Fighters XIV, was released on Augfor PlayStation 4, and on Jfor Steam (PC). For the next few games, the Atomiswave would be used, and later the Taito Type X2. The series was originally developed for SNK's Neo Geo video game systems, which would continue until SNK retired the Neo Geo completely in 2004. Its claim to fame is the large cast of characters and the innovative "team" system, with both original designs and characters from other SNK games.
The King of Fighters ( ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ), officially abbreviated as KOF ( ケーオーエフ), is the most famous and prominent series of fighting games by SNK.