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Fatal Fury
Fatal Fury, known as Garō Densetsu (餓狼伝説, Legend of the Hungry Wolf) in Japan, is a fighting game series developed by SNK, first released on SNK's Neo Geo system. Similar to other games from the genre, the franchise involves rounds where the player is given access to both combos and special techniques needed to defeat enemies. The franchise was started by Fatal Fury: King of Fighters (1991), and has come to include several spin-offs and anime adaptations.
Though only three characters were playable in the first installment, the cast was expanded with each new game. The story focuses on the antagonism between the children of the late Jeff Bogard, Terry and Andy, and the South Town crime lord Geese Howard as well as several fighters allied with both factions to see which side will win in a series of fighting competitions. This original story arc ends with the fourth instalment, Real Bout Fatal Fury (1995), with Geese's son Rock Howard taking over as protagonist in Garou: Mark of the Wolves (1999) to find the mystery behind his legacy. After Mark of the Wolves, the failure of the Neo Geo's successor and SNK's bankruptcy contributed to the end of the Fatal Fury franchise, until its 26-years hiatus was ended with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (2025), released on most modern system, which ends Rock's arc while giving the player new forms of exploring each character's role in the story for the first time.
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters was designed by Takashi Nishiyama, the creator of the original Street Fighter (1987) at Capcom. After leaving Capcom for SNK, Nishiyama wanted to create a fighting game with a storyline and characters that were easier to empathize with, something he wasn't able to achieve with Street Fighter. Fatal Fury inspired multiple sequels published by SNK following its success. There have also been several original video animations (OVA) and manga adaptation based on the story. Its IP and Art of Fighting share the same continuity by placing a younger Geese in the second installment, Art of Fighting 2 whereas Art of Fighting lead Ryo Sakazaki would return in the remake Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition. Both Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting became the basis for the later The King of Fighters games by SNK where Terry, Ryo and other SNK protagonists fight alongside other crossover characters created by SNK in new tournaments. Critical response to Fatal Fury was positive, drawing positive comparison to Street Fighter II based on special moves and visuals.
The original Fatal Fury is known for the two-plane system in which characters fight from two different planes. By stepping between the planes, attacks can be dodged with ease. Later games have dropped the two-plane system, replacing it with a complex system of dodging, including simple half second dodges into the background and a three plane system. Characters have moves that can attack across the two planes, attack both planes at once, or otherwise attack dodge characters. The plane system was fully abandoned from later releases beginning with Garou: Mark of the Wolves.
Later Fatal Fury games have experimented with various mechanical changes. "Ring-outs" allow a character to lose the round if the character is thrown into the edges of the fighting backdrop; single-plane backdrops, where dodging is eliminated altogether, causing moves that send opponents to the opposite plane to do collateral damage. The "Deadly Rave" is a super combo used by several characters, where after execution, a player had to press a preset series of buttons with exact timing for the entire combo to execute. The "Just Defend" is a type of protected block in which players regained lost life, did not wear down the player's guard crush meter and removed all block stuns making combo interruptions smoother.
Fatal Fury and its sister series, Art of Fighting, are set in the same fictional universe; while Art of Fighting takes place in the late 1970s, the story of Fatal Fury begins over a decade later in the early 1990s. The two series are set primarily in the same fictional city of "South Town", loosely based on the real-life city of Miami. The Wolves sub-series takes place in the neighboring city of "Second Southtown".
Many characters from both Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting appear in The King of Fighters series, which is set in its own universe that ignores the continuity established in the Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting games so that the characters from both series could battle without having to age any of them.
As with most fighting games, the Fatal Fury series has an extensive cast of characters that increases with each installment. The series' primary protagonists include Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi, all introduced in the original game, and female ninja Mai Shiranui, introduced in Fatal Fury 2; these four characters have appeared in every series entry since their debut, with the exception of Garou: Mark of the Wolves. The series' most prominent antagonist is Geese Howard, a crime lord in South Town responsible for the death of the Bogard brothers' father, who is often accompanied by his right-hand man Billy Kane. Other members of Geese's family have appeared as major antagonists throughout the series, including half brother Wolfgang Krauser; distant relatives the Jin brothers; and brother-in-law Kain R. Heinlein.
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Fatal Fury
Fatal Fury, known as Garō Densetsu (餓狼伝説, Legend of the Hungry Wolf) in Japan, is a fighting game series developed by SNK, first released on SNK's Neo Geo system. Similar to other games from the genre, the franchise involves rounds where the player is given access to both combos and special techniques needed to defeat enemies. The franchise was started by Fatal Fury: King of Fighters (1991), and has come to include several spin-offs and anime adaptations.
Though only three characters were playable in the first installment, the cast was expanded with each new game. The story focuses on the antagonism between the children of the late Jeff Bogard, Terry and Andy, and the South Town crime lord Geese Howard as well as several fighters allied with both factions to see which side will win in a series of fighting competitions. This original story arc ends with the fourth instalment, Real Bout Fatal Fury (1995), with Geese's son Rock Howard taking over as protagonist in Garou: Mark of the Wolves (1999) to find the mystery behind his legacy. After Mark of the Wolves, the failure of the Neo Geo's successor and SNK's bankruptcy contributed to the end of the Fatal Fury franchise, until its 26-years hiatus was ended with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (2025), released on most modern system, which ends Rock's arc while giving the player new forms of exploring each character's role in the story for the first time.
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters was designed by Takashi Nishiyama, the creator of the original Street Fighter (1987) at Capcom. After leaving Capcom for SNK, Nishiyama wanted to create a fighting game with a storyline and characters that were easier to empathize with, something he wasn't able to achieve with Street Fighter. Fatal Fury inspired multiple sequels published by SNK following its success. There have also been several original video animations (OVA) and manga adaptation based on the story. Its IP and Art of Fighting share the same continuity by placing a younger Geese in the second installment, Art of Fighting 2 whereas Art of Fighting lead Ryo Sakazaki would return in the remake Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition. Both Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting became the basis for the later The King of Fighters games by SNK where Terry, Ryo and other SNK protagonists fight alongside other crossover characters created by SNK in new tournaments. Critical response to Fatal Fury was positive, drawing positive comparison to Street Fighter II based on special moves and visuals.
The original Fatal Fury is known for the two-plane system in which characters fight from two different planes. By stepping between the planes, attacks can be dodged with ease. Later games have dropped the two-plane system, replacing it with a complex system of dodging, including simple half second dodges into the background and a three plane system. Characters have moves that can attack across the two planes, attack both planes at once, or otherwise attack dodge characters. The plane system was fully abandoned from later releases beginning with Garou: Mark of the Wolves.
Later Fatal Fury games have experimented with various mechanical changes. "Ring-outs" allow a character to lose the round if the character is thrown into the edges of the fighting backdrop; single-plane backdrops, where dodging is eliminated altogether, causing moves that send opponents to the opposite plane to do collateral damage. The "Deadly Rave" is a super combo used by several characters, where after execution, a player had to press a preset series of buttons with exact timing for the entire combo to execute. The "Just Defend" is a type of protected block in which players regained lost life, did not wear down the player's guard crush meter and removed all block stuns making combo interruptions smoother.
Fatal Fury and its sister series, Art of Fighting, are set in the same fictional universe; while Art of Fighting takes place in the late 1970s, the story of Fatal Fury begins over a decade later in the early 1990s. The two series are set primarily in the same fictional city of "South Town", loosely based on the real-life city of Miami. The Wolves sub-series takes place in the neighboring city of "Second Southtown".
Many characters from both Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting appear in The King of Fighters series, which is set in its own universe that ignores the continuity established in the Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting games so that the characters from both series could battle without having to age any of them.
As with most fighting games, the Fatal Fury series has an extensive cast of characters that increases with each installment. The series' primary protagonists include Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi, all introduced in the original game, and female ninja Mai Shiranui, introduced in Fatal Fury 2; these four characters have appeared in every series entry since their debut, with the exception of Garou: Mark of the Wolves. The series' most prominent antagonist is Geese Howard, a crime lord in South Town responsible for the death of the Bogard brothers' father, who is often accompanied by his right-hand man Billy Kane. Other members of Geese's family have appeared as major antagonists throughout the series, including half brother Wolfgang Krauser; distant relatives the Jin brothers; and brother-in-law Kain R. Heinlein.