Fatal Fury (series)

Fatal Fury
The logo originally used in Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, which is the most commonly used logo in the series
Genres	Fighting game
Developers	SNK Takara Aspect
Publishers	SNK
Creators	Takashi Nishiyama
Platforms	Arcade, Neo Geo CD, Mega Drive, SNES, Neo Geo, PC Engine, Game Boy, X68000, Sega CD, Game Gear, FM Towns, Saturn, Windows, PlayStation, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Virtual Console, Xbox Live Arcade
First release	Fatal Fury: King of Fighters November 25, 1991

Fatal Fury (餓狼伝説, Fatal Fury"^?) is a fighting game series developed by SNK for the Neo Geo system.

Two compilations have been released:

The original Fatal Fury is known for the two-plane system. 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.

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. Art of Fighting took place several years prior to the first Fatal Fury. (This is established in Art of Fighting 2, which features a younger long-haired Geese Howard as the game's secret final boss and the true mastermind behind the events of the first Art of Fighting.) The two series are set primarily in the same fictional city of "South Town."

Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition likewise features the cast from the series that are featured in The King of Fighters (KOF) series, with many of the more popular characters from Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting games transferred to The King of Fighters as they were introduced. It should be noted that the KOF series ignores the continuity established in the Fatal Fury/Art of Fighting games. This was done so that the characters from both series could be featured in the KOF games without having to age them.