The King of Fighters is a popular 2D fighting videogame series created by SNK.
The first KOF game appeared in 1994 and was obviously called King of Fighters '94. It was supposed to be a great crossover that allowed the player to confront some of the most popular characters from several SNK games, like the Fatal Fury (Garou Densetsu) series, Art of Fighting series or Psycho Soldiers, along with some new, charismatic characters such as Kyo Kusanagi or Iori Yagami. The other big novelty was the system that allowed characters to fight in teams of 3. In the first KOF, they were default teams, but later versions of the game allowed the players to configure their own dream team by combining their 3 or 4 favorite characters, though, usually, only default or special teams have their own custom ending sequence.

King of Fighters '94 was a great success, and SNK started to release a new KOF game every year, from 1994 to 2003 on Neo-Geo, plus several spin-offs for other game systems, each including new characters and different improvements or changes in the game system. There is even a 3D version of the game called King of Fighters Maximum Impact.

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