Several popular franchise-series, including Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, were released for the platform.

" Later, the " Gold System " was bundled with Magician Lord and Fatal Fury.

The first three games released were Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, Art of Fighting, and World Heroes.

As of July 2009, Fatal Fury Special, Samurai Shodown II, Metal Slug 3, Garou: Mark of the Wolves and The King of Fighters ' 98 have been released.

Games usually confine characters to moving left and right and jumping, although some games such as Fatal Fury: King of Fighters allow players to move between parallel planes of movement.

SNK released Fatal Fury a few months before Street Fighter II.

Fatal Fury placed more emphasis on storytelling and the timing of special moves, and added a two-plane system where characters could step into the foreground or background.

Meanwhile, SNK released several fighting games on their Neo-Geo platform, including Samurai Shodown II in 1994, Real Bout Fatal Fury in 1995, The Last Blade in 1997, and annual updates to their The King of Fighters franchise.

Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves from 1999 was considered one of SNK's last great games, and the company announced that it would close its doors in 2001.

Its success led to a wave of other popular fighting games, such as Mortal Kombat by Midway Games, Fatal Fury: King of Fighters ( 1992 ) by SNK, Killer Instinct ( 1994 ) by Rare, and The King of Fighters ( 1994 – 2005 ) by SNK.

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 titular King of Fighters tournament originated from SNKs previous fighting game franchises, Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting.

In this version, it would only use core characters from the Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury series, specifically allowing players to play Robert Garcia and Terry Bogard for location testing.

Several franchises of games derived from it, including Sengoku, The King of Fighters, The Last Blade, Super Sidekicks, Art of Fighting, Metal Slug, Burning Fight, Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury.

To date, The Art of Fighting Collection ( published by Crave under the title of The Art of Fighting Anthology ), Fatal Fury Battle Archives vols.

SNK Playmore USA released its first game on Xbox Live Arcade, which is Fatal Fury Special.

SNK is now currently supporting Nintendo's Virtual Console service on the Wii in the US with Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and World Heroes.

Several franchises of games derived from it, including Sengoku, The King of Fighters, The Last Blade, Super Sidekicks, Art of Fighting, Metal Slug, Burning Fight, Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury.

* Fatal Fury Special, an updated version of Fatal Fury 2.

* Billy Kane, a Fatal Fury character

* Fatal Fury ( series ), a fighting video game series

* Camera Obscura ( Fatal Frame ), the name of a camera used to exorcise spirits by taking pictures, used in the game Fatal Frame

* Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, or Project Zero II: Crimson Butterfly, 2004 game considered one of the scariest video games of all time.

The Fatal Frame series has since gained a reputation as one of the most distinctive in the genre, with the first game in the series credited as one of the best-written survival horror games ever made, by UGO Networks.

* Fatal Frame, a survival horror video game series

* Ryozo Munakata, a fictional character in the Fatal Frame video game franchise

* Jubei Yamada, from the game Fatal Fury 2

It was the second fighting game franchise created by SNK, following the Fatal Fury series and is set in the same fictional universe.

It was the first fighting game by SNK to feature the character designs of former illustrator Shinkiro, who would go on to do the character designs for the later Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters games.

The Hyper Neo-Geo 64 game Buriki One and the PlayStation port of Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition features an older modern-day Ryo adopting his father's former identity of Mr. Karate.

" Howard was the final boss and series villain of SNK's other fighting game franchise Fatal Fury ( though he is a secret boss in this game ), whose story took place over a decade after the events of Art of Fighting.

* Zero, the Japanese title of the video game series Fatal Frame

Among the available titles were: Phantasy Star II Text Adventures, Flicky, Fatal Labyrinth, Sonic Eraser ( a Sonic the Hedgehog / Columns crossover puzzle game ), Teddy Boy Blues, Penguin Land, and others.

* Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, a video game

* October 1 — DreamWorks SKG and Tecmo announce a movie adaptation of the video game Fatal Frame has been fast-tracked with John Rogers and Steven Spielberg involvement.

is a fictional video game character appearing in SNK Playmore's Fatal Fury fighting games series.

Geese does appear in the revised version of Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury Special, where it is revealed that he survived his fall at the end of the first game.

Paramount's successful run of pictures extended into the 1980s and 1990s, generating hits like Airplane !, American Gigolo, Ordinary People, An Officer and a Gentleman, Flashdance, Terms of Endearment, Footloose, Pretty in Pink, Fatal Attraction, the Friday the 13th slasher series, as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels.

Meanwhile, the Fatal Frame series has remained true to the roots of the genre, even as Fatal Frame IV transitioned from the use of fixed cameras to an over-the-shoulder viewpoint.

* The title " Curse of Fatal Death " is a tautology ( it being impossible to have a death that is not fatal ), which parodies the sometimes melodramatic and tautological titles of the original series ( an example being the 1976 serial The Deadly Assassin ).

Fatal error, Taking liberties series.

* Atkins is the subject of the " Fatal Femmes " episode of the Secret War documentary series, aired in the United States on the Military Channel.

The TV series Starsky and Hutch copied almost all of the plot for their Season 3 story " Fatal Charm ", embarrassingly aired on TV in the UK just days after Play Misty for Me was televised.

The producers of the series, Takashi Nishiyama ( since the original title ) and Hiroshi Matsumoto ( since Fatal Fury 3 ), were the planners of the original Street Fighter ( where they're credited as Piston Takashi and Finish Hiroshi ).

The initial two titles are set in South Town, a common location in SNK games that is also the setting for the Fatal Fury series, while the third appears to take place in a fictitious area of Mexico.

Takuma is said to be a contemporary of Jeff Bogard, father of Fatal Furys main hero, Terry Bogard ; Jeff Bogard's murder at the hands of Geese Howard triggers the events of the Fatal Fury series.

The Art of Fighting series originally served as a prequel to the Fatal Fury series, taking place during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

While The King of Fighters series features characters from the Art of Fighting series and alludes to events occurring in the games, it follows a completely different continuity from that of the actual Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury games.