| rdfs:comment | - The King of Fighters is a fighting game series created by SNK. The license to create cards based on this property were signed to Sabertooth Games and Sabertooth released its first set including both Samurai Shodown V and King of Fighters 2006 in November 2006.
- The King of Fighters, officially abbreviated KOF, is the premiere 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 and will move the series to the Taito Type X2 with the release of The King of Fighters XII. Ports of the arcade games and original The King of Fighters games have been developed for the Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo Pocket, Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, N-Gage, Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation and PlayStation 2, and Xbox. The most recent game in the series, The King of Fighters XIII, was released on July 14, 2010.
- The King of Fighters, officially abbreviated KoF, is a popular fighting game franchise from SNK/Playmore. Originally conceived as a crossover between The Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury and older games, the series eventually became a mainstay of SNK, with over 100 characters having been introduced into the series over 17 main series games.
- The King of Fighters (ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ, Za Kingu ofu Faitāzu), officially abbreviated KOF, is the most prominent series of fighting games by SNK. 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 latest "main" game in the series, The King of Fighters XIV, was released on August 23, 2016 for the PlayStation 4.
- The King of Fighters (KOF for short ) is a very ancient fighting tournament, dated from the year 1 in the Jewish calendar. It was created to determine who is the second best fighter to Bruce Lee in a determined year. This tournament is usually sponsored by the local/actual world fighting badass. The sponsor has the role of organizing the rules and providing fighting sites. However, mostly the tournaments are also sponsored by Buddha and the legendary Kung Fu Man.
- The King of Fighters series started out as a crossover fighting game, featuring some of the most popular characters from SNK Playmore's (known as SNK back then) fighting game franchises: Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting, as well as classic SNK games such as Ikari Warriors and Psycho Soldier, splitting them up into teams of three (four in the NESTS Saga), duking it out in one-on-one battles similar to its major competition at the time, Street Fighter. There are four major Story Arcs: (More detailed summaries of each arc- and the individual games- can be found in the Analysis section.)
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| abstract | - The King of Fighters is a fighting game series created by SNK. The license to create cards based on this property were signed to Sabertooth Games and Sabertooth released its first set including both Samurai Shodown V and King of Fighters 2006 in November 2006.
- The King of Fighters, officially abbreviated KoF, is a popular fighting game franchise from SNK/Playmore. Originally conceived as a crossover between The Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury and older games, the series eventually became a mainstay of SNK, with over 100 characters having been introduced into the series over 17 main series games. The plot of these games centres around an annual "King of Fighters" tournament, which series main characters Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami participate in, amongst many other characters. However, midway through the competition, evil forces intervene, forcing the winning (player's) team to take action and defeat these forces, often manifested as a boss character or two. This series is also infamous for its SNK Boss Syndrome, with bosses possessing exceedingly good range and priority on their attacks. Many of its bosses have been known to be the first examples of numerous boss-style attacks, such as screen fillers and energy pillars.
- The King of Fighters (KOF for short ) is a very ancient fighting tournament, dated from the year 1 in the Jewish calendar. It was created to determine who is the second best fighter to Bruce Lee in a determined year. This tournament is usually sponsored by the local/actual world fighting badass. The sponsor has the role of organizing the rules and providing fighting sites. However, mostly the tournaments are also sponsored by Buddha and the legendary Kung Fu Man. The tournament used to be secret, but all was messed up in 1991, when Terry Bogard threw Geese Howard from the roof of his building. A kingpin being thrown 122 floors down to where Mr. T and Pai Mei were playing Go is an impossible fact to hide.
- The King of Fighters, officially abbreviated KOF, is the premiere 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 and will move the series to the Taito Type X2 with the release of The King of Fighters XII. Ports of the arcade games and original The King of Fighters games have been developed for the Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo Pocket, Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, N-Gage, Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation and PlayStation 2, and Xbox. The most recent game in the series, The King of Fighters XIII, was released on July 14, 2010.
- The King of Fighters series started out as a crossover fighting game, featuring some of the most popular characters from SNK Playmore's (known as SNK back then) fighting game franchises: Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting, as well as classic SNK games such as Ikari Warriors and Psycho Soldier, splitting them up into teams of three (four in the NESTS Saga), duking it out in one-on-one battles similar to its major competition at the time, Street Fighter. Although the first game was merely intended to be a Mascot Fighter, the series became more popular than the others that inspired it, and an overreaching plot soon developed that took the other SNK fighters along for the ride. There are four major Story Arcs:
* The original King of Fighters arc, focusing on notorious crime lord Rugal Bernstein and his attempt to establish himself as the world's strongest fighter by staging a grand tournament and inviting contenders from all across the world.
* The Orochi Saga arc, which concerns Kyo Kusanagi (the winner of the first King of Fighters tournament) and a thousand-year blood feud with the Yagami family, who have gained demonic power thanks to a pact with a being known as "Orochi".
* The NESTS arc, which focuses on the titular organisation and their conspiracy to create weaponized clones of the most powerful warriors in the world. As Kyo is absent for the majority of this arc, the main protagonist is a new character called K' (pronounced "kay dash").
* The Tales of Ash arc, which introduces androgynous French pretty boy Ash Crimson as the new main character. The story involves a sinister plot to capture the powers of the Kusanagi, Yagami and Kagura clans and seize the sealed power of Orochi, and the question of just whose side Ash is on. (More detailed summaries of each arc- and the individual games- can be found in the Analysis section.) The games were initially released on the (ridiculously expensive) Neo Geo home arcade system, so they had a hard time catching on with North American home gamers, but remained very popular in Japan, as well as with arcade gamers worldwide. It released new editions of the game every year with Madden-like regularity, introducing new characters and rosters into the storyline, while the old characters have seemingly retained their basic sets of special moves throughout the series, probably to dodge the problem of the older games being So Last Season. In addition to the thirteen games of the main KOF storyline, there are multiple spinoffs, remakes and "dream match" titles (that combine all the characters of that particular saga into one game). These include Maximum Impact, a 3D Fighting Game series which takes place in an Alternate Continuity, right down to having characters not featured in the main KOF storylines; an RPG that ties the events of 96 with 97; a Bullet Hell spinoff called KOF Sky Stage for the Xbox Live Arcade; and The King of Fighters-i 002, an iPhone game that ties into XIII Aside from fighting games and tie-ins, there were the rather infamous Dating Sim games for mobiles and Nintendo DS, Days Of Memories allowed the Player Character to venture in Southtown and date most of the fighting divas from the series (and from others); later versions also allowed a girl Player Character to date the male fighters as well. This is the character sheet. Be warned, the gross amount of characters in this series is taken to an extreme degree.
- The King of Fighters (ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ, Za Kingu ofu Faitāzu), officially abbreviated KOF, is the most prominent series of fighting games by SNK. 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 series was originally developed for SNK's Neo Geo video game systems, which would continue until SNK retired the Neo Geo completely in 2004. For the next few games, the Atomiswave would be used, and later the Taito Type X2. 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 August 23, 2016 for the PlayStation 4.
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