List of Fighting Game Companies - K

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• K. Amusement Leasing (KAC), a stalwart of SNK, published the Super Famicom port of Art of Fighting in Japan (developed by Monolith).
• Kaneko first developed Ka Ge Ki for Taito when it was one of Taito's second-party developers. When Kaneko became an independent company, they created Shogun Warriors (known in Japan as Fujiyama Buster), which was followed by a sequel, Blood Warrior (known in Japan as Ooedo Fight), while Kaneko released a licensed fighting game, The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan (and its updated version, Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire: Jackie Chan Densetsu). Kaneko also published Power Athlete (developed by System Vision. Known outside of Japan for the Super NES as Power Moves and for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive as Deadly Moves).
• Koei (now merged with Tecmo as Tecmo Koei) started the Dynasty Warriors series as a 3D weapon-based fighting game, but made the rest of its series change from a fighting game to tactical action games. They also published Destrega (developed by Omega Force).
• Konami started with the Yie Ar Kung-Fu arcade, which was considered by many to be the basis of modern fighting games. Konami also created the innovative, but obscure Galactic Warriors (only for the arcades), and included combat sports that are technically fighting games in Track & Field II. Other fighting games they created include their first modern-fighting arcade game Martial Champion (for the arcades and PC-Engine CD-ROM), the boss-rush fighting game Monster Maulers, their first portable fighting game Raging Fighter (only for the Game Boy) and their 2.5D fighting game Rakugakids (only for the Nintendo 64), all as answers to the Street Fighter series, and Dragoon Might (only for the arcades) as their answer to other early weapon-based modern fighters such as Blandia, Time Killers, Knuckle Heads and the Samurai Shodown series. Konami also created eight 3D fighting games: Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken (only for the PS1), Poy Poy and its sequel Poy Poy 2 (both only for the PS1), Fighting Bujutsu (only for the arcades), Battle Tryst (only for the arcades), Kensei: Sacred Fist (only for the PS1), G.A.S.P!! Fighters' NEXTream (only for the N64), and Castlevania Judgment (developed by 8ing/Raizing for the Wii). They also created several licensed fighting games, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (for several platforms) to TMNT: Mutant Melee (for several platforms), to Flame of Recca (one for Game Boy Advance and one for Sony PlayStation 2) to Rave Master (one for home consoles and one for Game Boy Advance titled Rave Master: Special Attack Force!) to Sunday VS Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen! (exclusively for PSP).
• Kronos Digital Entertainment developed three 3D fighting games: Criticom and Dark Rift (both published by Vic Tokai), as well as Cardinal Syn (published by 989 Studios).