{"id":211,"date":"2022-05-17T09:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/review-the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:49:03","slug":"review-the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/review\/review-the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The King Of Fighters: The Ultimate History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/review-the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history_62836f8f5caa2-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/review-the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history_62836f8f5caa2-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/review-the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history_62836f8f5caa2-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Capcom&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/street_fighter_30th_anniversary_collection\">Street Fighter<\/a><\/strong> has had many rivals over the years, including the likes of <strong>Virtua Fighter, Mortal Kombat<\/strong> and <strong>Guilty Gear<\/strong>. However, one franchise stands out as the true competitor: SNK&#8217;s <strong>King of Fighters<\/strong>. Since its inception in 1994, the series has offered what many fans consider to be the only legitimate alternative to Capcom&#8217;s one-on-one offering, and at one point, it was more popular than Street Fighter in Japanese arcades. After something of a barren period for the franchise (and, arguably, the genre in general) King of Fighters is enjoying something of a minor resurgence, which makes the publication of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitmapbooks.com\/products\/the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history\">Bitmap Books&#8217; The King Of Fighters: The Ultimate History<\/a> all the more timely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/05\/review-the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom&#8217;s Street Fighter has had many rivals over the years, including the likes of Virtua Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Guilty Gear. However, one franchise stands out as the true competitor: SNK&#8217;s King of Fighters. Since its inception in 1994, the series has offered what many fans consider to be the only legitimate alternative to Capcom&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-retro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}