The is a cartridge-based arcade system board and home video game console released on January 31, 1990 by Japanese game company SNK.

The last official game by SNK for the Neo Geo system, Samurai Shodown V Special, was released in 2004.

is a game console from SNK that was released in 1994, four years after its cartridge-based equivalent, in an effort to reduce manufacturing costs.

" The same year, SNK released The King of Fighters ' 94 in arcades, where players choose from teams of three characters to eliminate each other one by one.

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.

SNK released the first game of this type, SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, for its Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld at the end of 1999.

Capcom released Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 for arcades and the Dreamcast in 2000, followed by sequels in subsequent years.

The first game in the series, The King of Fighters ' 94, was released by SNK on August 25, 1994.

The success of the game led SNK to release yearly installments of the series and numbered the games for the year they were released.

By 2004, SNK abandoned yearly releases of the series and numbered future games in a more traditional manner ; the first main series game released as such was The King of Fighters XI, released on October 26, 2005.

The games produced by Capcom are Capcom vs. SNK in ( followed by a minor upgrade, Capcom vs. SNK Pro, in ) and a sequel titled Capcom vs. SNK 2, released in 2001.

In addition to the remakes of individual games such as Re-bout, Ultimate Match, and Unlimited Match, SNK Playmore has released compilations of their KOF games.

However, in 1999 when SNK was expanded to North America, the games were also released there.

SNK has released a series of CD soundtracks known as SNK Character Sounds Collection or SNK Sound Character Collection ( SNKサウンドキャラクターズコレクション ).

When Capcom vs. SNK was released, it was a success but most of the profits went to Capcom as it developed the game.

SNK released SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium and SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash on the Neo Geo Pocket Color.

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.

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.

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 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.

It was the third animated co-production between SNK and NAS, following Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf and Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle.

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

is a player character in both the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series of fighting games by SNK and in other media of these franchises, having also appeared in numerous other games since her debut in the 1992's Fatal Fury 2.

Although all three games looked great, none were particularly well received: hardcore SNK fans preferred the 2D versions of Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury and newcomers were seldom interested at all ; Namco and Sega had superior arcade hardware and a larger catalog of 3D games to tempt them with.

* Garou Densetsu (" Legend of the Hungry Wolf "), the Japanese title of the Fatal Fury fighting games, created by SNK for the Neo-Geo system

However, they criticized that the fighting system is very similar to other SNK games such as Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting.

It adds a few new playable characters and a couple of Strikers ( most of them being from previous KOF titles and other SNK titles as well such as Metal Slug and Kizuna Encounter ).

Within a few months of the system's introduction in North America, SNK changed the cost to $ 649 and changed the pack-in game to Magician Lord.

In exchange for the use of SNK's popular characters on their pachinko and slot machines, and a few games for the Neo-Geo, Aruze promised financial backing for the failing SNK.

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.

They originally started as the first American distribution arm for SNK ( before SNK of America was founded in 1987 ).

However, the game was released just weeks before the Neo Geo Pocket Color and associated stock was recalled after SNK ’ s bankruptcy.

* Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000-Released for Segas NAOMI arcade hardware in and ported to the Dreamcast during the same year, the original Capcom vs. SNK features 28 characters ( evenly divided between Capcom and SNK properties ), two selectable fighting styles or " grooves " ( based on the gameplay systems featured in the The King of Fighters and Street Fighter Alpha series ) and a ratio-based character selection system that determines the number of characters in a player's team based on their strength.

Mai is present as a playable character in every game in the SNK vs. Capcom crossover fighting game series since 1999, featured in a role of a rival to Street Fighters Chun-Li, and appears as a playable character in Namco Bandai's tactical role-playing game Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos released for the PSP in 2011.

While Ryo has been criticized for its similarities with the Street Fighter video games ' characters, several reviewers have praised his development in several games from SNK such as his introduction in The King of Fighters.

The company was founded on March 6, 2000 by several former SNK and Capcom employees, including Street Fighter co-creators Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto.

* Street Smart ( arcade game ), a 1989 arcade game by SNK

Recoil Guard is a mix of the Just Defend system from the SNK game Garou: Mark of the Wolves and the parry system from Street Fighter 3, as well as the Guard Impact system from Soul Calibur.

The Street Fighter character Eagle, who appears in the original Street Fighter as well as in Capcom vs. SNK 2, has however been confirmed to be gay, as a tribute to Queen singer Freddie Mercury, although several of Eagle's quotes obviously displaying his orientation were censored in the North American version of the game.

Capcom vs. SNK 2 combines characters and gameplay elements from various Capcom and SNK fighting games, mainly the Street Fighter and The King of Fighters series.

Unlike the first game, which was based on The King of Fighters-style two-strength, four button system of punches and kicks, Capcom vs. SNK 2 is based on the three strength, six-button system of punches and kicks, native to the Street Fighter series, and the SNK characters have been tweaked to fit the 6-button style.