{"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":"

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Capcom’s Street Fighter<\/a><\/strong> has had many rivals over the years, including the likes of Virtua Fighter, Mortal Kombat<\/strong> and Guilty Gear<\/strong>. However, one franchise stands out as the true competitor: SNK’s 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’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 Bitmap Books’ The King Of Fighters: The Ultimate History<\/a> all the more timely.<\/p>\n

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Capcom’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’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’s […]<\/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,"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t