Fatal Fury (series) - Games

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• Fatal Fury – The first game of the Fatal Fury series allowed players to select one of three characters, Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, and Joe Higashi, as they fight against a gauntlet of computer-controlled opponents ending with Billy Kane and Geese Howard. When two players joins in, they have the option of either playing cooperatively against the CPU or competitively against each other. Ported to SNES and Sega Genesis by Takara. The Neo-Geo version was released onto the Wii's Virtual Console. It was also released as part of SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 for PS2, PSP and Wii.

• Fatal Fury 2 – The immediate sequel to the original Fatal Fury revamped the controls from the original game, adding punch and kick buttons of different strength levels and allowing the player to switch between fighting lanes at will. Terry, Andy, and Joe return from the original Fatal Fury, along with five new playable characters (including Kim Kaphwan and Mai Shiranui). This time, the player faces off against the other main characters (as well as a clone of their own) before fighting against four computer-only opponents, culminating with new antagonist Wolfgang Krauser. The game was ported once again to the SNES and Genesis by Takara. A PC Engine Super CD-ROM² was also released by Hudson Soft in Japan, which utilized the Arcade Card.

• Fatal Fury Special – An updated version of Fatal Fury 2 which refines many aspects of the previous game, including faster game speed. The character roster from Fatal Fury 2 returned, with the four CPU characters now playable, along with three returning characters from the original Fatal Fury (Duck King, Tung Fu Rue, and Geese Howard). Ryo Sakazaki from Art of Fighting appears also as a secret final opponent. The game was once again ported to the SNES by Takara, with a Sega CD version by JVC and a PC Engine version by Hudson Soft (once again utilizing the Arcade Card). The game was also released for the Xbox Live Arcade service.

• Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory – Fatal Fury 3 revamps the lane changing system from the previous games and introduces a new type of combo techniques known as "Combination Arts". Terry, Andy, Joe, Mai, and Geese return from Fatal Fury Special, along with five new playable characters (including Blue Mary), along with three boss characters (Ryuji Yamazaki, Jin Chonshu, and Jin Chonrei). Ported by SNK to the Sega Saturn. A Windows 95 version also released by Cyberfront.

• Real Bout Fatal Fury – Real Bout Fatal Fury simplifies the controls from the previous game and introduces a "Power Gauge" allowing the player to perform super-powered special moves. The Fatal Fury 3 character roster returned (with the boss characters now regular characters), along with Kim Kaphwan, Duck King, and Billy Kane from Fatal Fury Special, with Geese Howard reclaiming his status from the first game as final boss. Also released for the PlayStation (in Japan and Europe) and the Saturn (in Japan only).

• Real Bout Fatal Fury Special – Like Fatal Fury Special before it, Real Bout Special reintroduced many of the characters from the classic Fatal Fury games, most notably Wolfgang Krauser. All of the characters from the previous game returned, with Geese Howard now a secret final boss and hidden playable character. Also released to the Sega Saturn in Japan only.

• Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers – The final game in the Real Bout sub-series, Real Bout 2 retains the Real Bout Special cast and introduces two new characters, Li Xiangfei and Rick Strowd. The game also featured a new secret challenger named Alfred .

• Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special: Dominated Mind – A PlayStation game based on Real Bout Special, which features an all new story mode starring Alfred (from Real Bout 2), and includes an all new antagonist named White, based upon Alexander de Large character from the movie A Clockwork Orange. Dominated Mind discards the multi-lane system from the previous Fatal Fury games and introduces new moves such as hidden unlockable super moves and super cancel moves (known in the game as "Final Impacts").

• Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition – A 3D fighting game that retells the story of Fatal Fury, but with many of the original characters replaced with characters from the later sequels such as Kim, Mai, and Yamazaki, as well as two new characters (Tsugumi Sendo and Toji Sakata). A PlayStation port of Wild Ambition featured Duck King and an older Ryo Sakazaki as the new Mr. Karate (from Buriki One).

• Fatal Fury: 1st Contact – A portable fighting game loosely based on Real Bout 2. Featured exclusive character Lao, playable only in the 2-player versus mode.

• Garou: Mark of the Wolves – The last Fatal Fury game released for the Neo Geo. Set a decade after Real Bout Special, Terry Bogard returns along with a new cast of characters, including new protagonist Rock Howard, Geese's son and Terry's protégé, for a total of twelve playable characters. The lane-change system was discarded from the series and introduced several new techniques such as "Just Defend" techniques. Ported to the Dreamcast (released under the title Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves) and PlayStation 2 (in Japan only). During the fan event 2005 KOF-party, illustrator Falcoon mentioned that game's sequel was around 70% percent complete by the SNK team.