Fatal Fury Punches Onto The Switch eShop Next Week

HAMSTER: the gift that keeps on giving. Keep 'em coming, folks. There can never be enough Neo Geo games on any one system...

@ThanosReXXX Hamster do what Nintendon't®

Nice to have these games. But, man, I hope they have something else to go along with it. How many fighting games does that make now? I have bought two of the NeoGeo fighting games and that will probably be all that I get with Street Fighter coming later on.

You beat to the punch on writing this one Darren. Since most "Street Fighter II" cabinets had queues and I dintn't have the time to stand around, I ended up laying a lot of "Fatal Fury" and "Samurai Shodown" back in the day. I'm happy to see this game swell the ranks of SNK titles for the Switch despite not having aged as gracefully as other titles of the series, but it was the beginning of an epic rivalry between Capcom and SNK. In many aspects this is actually the 'real' "Street Fighter II" since it was developed by Takashi Nishiyama who worked on the original Capcom figther and many ideas like the dual plane that never made it to the original ended up on SNK hardware. Simpler times.

That Pao Pao Cafe music...

@rdrunner1178 Doesn't matter. They need to keep em coming. With every game, the Switch's library improves. Great little NeoGeo section they've got going now.

"Produced to compete with Capcom's legendary Street Fighter II"

Not true! Fatal Fury was made by ex-Capcom staffers who worked on Street Fighter 1! It wasn't made as a reaction to SFII and was actually developed in tandem and released the same year.

@rdrunner1178 well they also put out one golf title, two side scrolling shooters, one shmup and a racing title is coming out this week. Does that count?

@rdrunner1178
Welcome to Neo Geo. A good majority of the library of games on this console is fighting games.

And for that fact alone, why release this one? It hasn't aged well, and these developers only went above and beyond from here with this series, and others. (Real Bout, anyone?)

I want Real Bout Special and Mark of wolves, one have that nostalgia factor for me and the other is one of the best 2d fighter out there.

@Menchi187 That definitely seems to be the case at the moment.

@SmaMan Milk it all for all its worth. Even if no one picks it up full price, its bound to be a Sale pick up....

A true classic, it's my first game on Neo-Geo and I actually have beaten it at standard level (I remember it to be difficult).
Everything starts here but since I payed the original so much and played it so much I'll wait for Fatal Fury 3.
Though here there is lot of story and it's stll that good game of old.

So I guess Hamster is skipping this week for the 13th? Oh well can't really complain about it.

I love it when you hear people complain about lag in games, how freeking slow is this title lol how can you play a fighter of this fashion but can't handle lag in modern fighters The Mind Bogles lol

Always good to see more Neo Geo games, but I'm waiting for RB2 and Mark of the Wolves from this series.

Add those two to KOF98, KOF2002, Last Blade 2, Samurai Shodown 2 and Waku Waku 7 and I've probably got all the Neo fighters I need.

@joey302 Aren't we getting Samurai Shodown IV tomorrow? (unless I've got that confused, which is entirely possible)

Real Bout Fatal Fury Special is a must have, as far as this one I'll pass.

@S-C-G Hmmm although I haven't seen that maybe your right. Will know by late today or tomorrow.

Dear Hamster,

Will you marry me?

Love,

Ryu

There is a Real Bout Collection on PS4. But that aint portable.

Thank you! Yes!!!!

@SmaMan From what I understand, they'll eventually release all the games (except maybe EightMan and Far East of Eden due to licensing). So just like what Microsoft is doing with the XBox Backwards Compatibility program, where the goal is 100% BC, there's going to be games coming out that aren't on peoples' wish lists. Also, the NEOGEO library is a product of its time. Fighting games were the moneymakers at the arcades in the '90s, so naturally there were tons of fighting games.

In a way, arcade game developers had to play things 'safer' than today's AAA studios when releasing games because their sales are riding on the arcade operators and distributors ordering their games. If a particular genre of a game wasn't performing well for an arcade operator, like an action platformer that isn't Metal Slug or shmups during the fighting game boom, then that performance may affect the operator's decision of picking up another game in that genre from that developer, or worse case scenario the operator will stop ordering games from that developer altogether. The arcade business is like a more direct and volatile version of how we 'vote with our wallets' today.

As much as I love Neo Geo and SNK fighters, this particular game has not aged well. I'll play for nostalgia only.

I used to play Fatal Fury on my Mega Drive. This one looks a bit different. I'll wait for a discount or bundle.

Love this game. Played on the old mega drive

@UK-Nintendo You could play as all the characters on that version!

I've always wanted to try Fatal Fury. I'll definitely want it when I get a Switch.

Great I have Garou Mark of the Wolf on Vita, fun series

I don't know why but I was never a fan of the first Fatal Fury, would had prefer Fatal Fury Special instead but the concept of the first game was cool though. It introduced 2-Players vs. CPU matches way before Street Fighter Alpha.

@GrailUK Not all of them, some of them as Hwa Jai and Billy Kane were not in the Mega Drive version.

@samuelvictor King of Fighters was the name of the tournament in every Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury games, not just this one. In the actual King of Fighters games, the King of Fighters is the title given to the victor.

@retro_player_22 Presentation wise to me was the best.