Art of Fighting is Scrapping Its Way to the Switch eShop

@ThomasBW84
Little typo in the link: 2017 instead of 2007

This one left quite an impression on me when I first played it at the arcades. The zoom feature was awesome, and Ryo and Robert were really good characters. It might be outpaced by its sequels and KOF games, but I think it has aged nicely.

The zooming in and out, feels more like motion sickness to me

How is it that all of these [rather unappealing] Neo Geo games get released week after week, but Nintendo can't even start small with the Virtual Console? I would even take just NES games to start with, for crying out loud.

This game was technically good looking when it came out for arcade back at the time. Big huge sprites, zooming and scaling between background, and also feature a special charge meter so to limit player on using special moves (which works good and help prevent spamming in a match). The only disappointing thing is that this sister series to Fatal Fury never really took up or evolve to such popularity like its big bro.

@thesilverbrick Well they're too busy focusing on new stuff now, so if you want old stuff maybe wait the second year, maybe get the SNES Classic Edition mini next week if you're just dying to play some old games for the time being. The arcade archive is coming next year so if that interest you in any way best to wait it out.

I could never get into the Art of Fighters games. Fatal Fury and King of Fighters is a different story.

Loved this one back in the day. I liked the new features like zoom, giant sprites, character damage, desperation moves etc. It was a refreshing change in a time when I was just tired of Capcom's approach to Street Fighter 2. However, it's an early SNK fighter and was a bit rigid when I last played it, so I don't think it's for everyone. I'd stick to later fighting games from SNK.

This series didn't really find its legs until AoF3 showed up, but like a lot of other people when this was new, I was dazzled by the scaling FX, if not the gameplay.

@retro_player_22 You say "get the SNES Classic Edition mini next week" like it'll be easy, haha. At any rate, it's not that I'm dying for a way to play old Nintendo games. I've already got most of them on the Wii and Wii U, plus I still own working versions of all of Nintendo's past consoles. I just think it's odd that Nintendo is putting off the Virtual Console so long when it stands to profit them so much, and other companies are releasing their own old games on Switch.

@thesilverbrick Nintendo probably focus on third party and releasing hit first party titles first. I believe they are saving any retro stuff for their paid online network next year. Yeah getting the SNES mini next week won't be easy but it certainly makes game hunting fun.

The story mode took your mind off realising how shallow the game was, while you were waiting for a turn on the SF2 coin-op. Worth a couple of games, but I would never have paid 100 quid for the cart lol.

@thesilverbrick Quit being so negative please.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Touché.

Another baby steps towards Baseball Stars Professional. C'mon Hamster!!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE 😂 and well taken by @thesilverbrick 👍

@thesilverbrick they are actually quite good.

This one's got a certain charm to it. Sure, it's from the era of fighting games where having 2 playable characters in single player mode was a luxury, but they really polished these two characters. That said, it hasn't aged well, and only the most devoted Neo Geo fighters (like me) need apply.

I mean, it's a whole lot better than AoF 2 and its ridiculously unforgiving CPU opponents... even on Level-1 difficulty.

@faint I'm sure some of them are. Maybe it's just my uneducated observations, but they all look a bit same-y to me. What percentage of them are 2D fighters?

Neo Geo games are not my cup of tea. They lack depth.

I loved this game back in the day but I prefer the Snes version instead of the Arcade because of the music. It's much better on Snes.

Hooray, my least favorite Neo Geo fighting game.

Art of Fighting*, a mistake on my earlier post.

Many sacrifices and extreme levels of restraint were excersised in order to afford my NEOGEO cartridges, is something my early 90's self would say (I just saved money by eating at home and resisted spending my McDonalds paychecks on Magic cards, LOL). At the same time, if a game was so-so then so it was, regardless of cost. I think I owned Art of Fighting for about a month before trading it in. Not that it was bad, despite it's rigid characters. But there was only 2 characters to pick for the story mode. You could only choose the other characters in vs. mode.

I may just pick this up out of nostalgia, though. It did pioneer a few staples of future SNK fighting games, and other fighters as well.

@River3636 Arcade games aren't known for being deep. They have to be simple, and addictive, pick up and play mechanics in order to take your initial quarter and, hopefully, take more than one. That said, fighting games are usually the deepest form of gameplay available to arcade games. Which, of course, the NEOGEO had a ton of.

And.... this game was the beginning for Capcom to create Dan Hibiki to tease SNK because practically Art of Fighting has some "Copycat" characters from Street Fighter such as Ryo , Robert , Yuri, etc.

The sprites look pretty, but there are better fighters.

The Hamster train keeps chugging along! This one not for me however.

As for me I have fond memories of the SNES version, which did retain the zoom feature where most contemporary ports didn't.

Oh yes, I remember the 2017 Wii VC release of this game.

Be interesting to see if the streak of Neo Geo games every week will continue once their Nintendo Arcade Archives begin. Will they not mind having a Neo Geo game possibly stealing the attention of the Nintendo game, or might be get a break from fighting games?

btw. Nintendolife, might I suggest a Nintendo Arcade Achieves feature that wishlists what Nintendo Arcade games we'd like to see (DK Trilogy, Popeye, F Zero AX if you want, etc.. XD).

sucks on snes