Two decades of The King of Fighters

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Kyo and the gang first clashed in the arcades. King of Fighters is one of the most recognized fighting game series in the world. Players were amazed by the series solid game play mechanics, colorful and a variety characters, awesome music and voice acting and insanely difficult boss battles. Like some sports events, each year there was a new entry for the series, some characters were remove, others were introduced and some were changed (according to the story). It was truly a great time for fighting game enthusiast.Sadly, the last couple of years were difficult for the series. Let’s have a small look back at the beginning of the KOF series.

Fun with Photoshop: The King of Fighters 94 for the NES

It's been a while since the last post (sorry), but fun with Photoshop continues with a new fake cover. With King of Fighters 20th Anniversary around the corner, it's KOF 94's turn. The famous fighting game series debuted in arcades in August 25 1994 but it never made it to a Nintendo home console until a couple of years ago for the Wii. This is what I think the cover would look like if it was release to the famed 8-bit console. Enjoy!

The Rhythm of Fighters released!

SNK Playmore released The Rhythm of Fighters, a King of Fighters music spin-off (think Elite Beat Agents mixed with Street Fighter) for Android and iOS platforms.

Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist looks epic!!!

Check Ryu's trailer above. This web series is truly the work of people who genuinely love Street Fighter. It looks impressive, even better than the Street Fighter Legacy short film that the team produced some years ago. The series will debut on Machinima YouTube channel before being released in disc and digital formats.

Hollywood, this is how you do adaptations of video games (or any other source material). Get someone who respects the source material. This is the first time a Street Fighter live action project looks worthy of watching. It is also the first one to portrait Ryu and Ken as the main characters. The characters look good and close to their video game counterparts. If only The King of Fighters got this treatment (I'll review that live action movie when I find the courage to watch it again).

For more info, check the official website: www.streetfighteraf.com