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.

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

" 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.

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.

Though none matched the critical success of the handheld version, Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO was noted as the first game of the genre to successfully utilize internet competition.

In 2004, SNK produced the first 3D installment of the series, KOF: Maximum Impact.

Anticipating the end of his first company, Kawasaki founded the company Playmore in August 2001 which became SNK Playmore in 2003.

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

SNK Playmore also released the first adult-themed game franchise for the Nintendo DS, Doki Doki Majo Shinpan !, the first so far for any handheld console.

As a rule, games in this series either contain SNK vs. Capcom or Capcom vs. SNK, the first company denoting the company behind the game's development.

Also, if one company was the main creator of one game, the distributing company would gain the profits and not the company that licensed the characters for use ( although SNK gave the rights to use the SNK characters to Capcom for the first Capcom vs. SNK game, SNK didn't profit from the game, which didn't help their financial problems ).

While it was the first Vs. series involving Capcom, the Marvel brand exists to distinguish it from Capcom's other Vs. series with SNK Playmore ( SNK vs. Capcom ) and Tatsunoko Production ( Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars ).

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.

All three games were released for the MVS Arcade System, Neo Geo Home System, and Neo Geo CD with the first one being included on SNK Arcade Classics Vol.

Ikari Warriors was the first popular video game to use rotary joysticks: those which could be rotated in addition to being pushed in eight directions ( TNK III, released in 1985, also from SNK, was the first to use such joysticks ).

While reviewing The King of Fighters Neowave Gamer 2. 0's Patrick Mifflin found that Geese is the " first SNK true villain ", and commented that his young appearance featured in such game " can surely be chalked up to being one of the perks of a fighting game that has no story at all ".

is a character from the SNK Playmore's The King of Fighters video game series that first appeared in The King of Fighters ' 95 as the leader of the Rivals Team.

is the main character in SNK Playmore's The King of Fighters video game series ; he was first introduced in The King of Fighters ' 94 as the leader of the Japan team.

SNK decided to abandon the video game hardware business due to the rampant piracy of game-cartridges, which SNK believed was partially responsible for its bankruptcy in 2001.

The arcade machines have a memory card system by which a player could save a game to return to at a later time and could also be used to continue play on the SNK home console of the same name.

Taunting is another feature of some fighting games and was originally introduced by Japanese company SNK in their game Art of Fighting.

Since virtually all video game consoles and arcade cabinets designed and built after 1980 were true digital machines ( unlike the analog Pong clones and derivatives ), some of them carried a minimal form of BIOS or built-in game, such as the ColecoVision, the Sega Master System and the SNK Neo Geo.

Crystalis, known in Japan as, is an action RPG / action-adventure video game produced by SNK for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Two of the characters from Crystalis are subtle nods to earlier SNK characters who later became part of The King of Fighters series ; the latter two sages, Kensu and Asina, are based on Kensou Sie and Athena Asamiya from the Psycho Soldier arcade game.

Due to economic problems that SNK had at the time, the Korean company Eolith helped in the development of the game.

Neo Geo Battle Coliseum is a 2 on 2 tag team fighting game for the Atomiswave arcade board, and SNK Gals ' Fighters is a fighting game for the Neo Geo Pocket Color.

The SNK-produced fighting games of this crossover include the Dimps-developed portable fighting game SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium for the Neo Geo Pocket Color in and SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos for the Neo Geo in.

SNK is a former name of SNK Playmore, a Japanese video game company ( August 2001-present ).

SNK only made one type of arcade stick and no gamepad for this console.