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Fatal Fury (餓狼伝説: Garou Densetsu in Japan) is a video game series developed by SNK for the Neo-Geo system. It is SNK's oldest beat 'em up game, and was once a rival to Capcom's Street Fighter series.

1 Gameplay

The main fighting game feature that Fatal Fury was known for was the two-plane system. Characters would fight from two different planes, and by stepping between the planes, attacks could be dodged with ease (of course, there are special moves that attack both planes at once). Other features that became part of the fighting game vernacular include the "Deadly Rave Super Combo" (a super combo that, after execution, a player must press a preset series of buttons with exact timing for the entire combo to execute) and the "Just Defend" (a type of protected block in which you regain lost life).

2 Story

The series revolves around a fictitious American city called South Town. It is a place full of crime and corruption, and the man behind most of it was Geese Howard. Each year he'd create a fighting tournament known as "The King of Fighters", but no one could beat his appointed champion, Billy Kane. The series would focus on the simultaneous rise of the "Legendary Wolf" Terry Bogard and the fall of Geese's criminal empire. The King of Fighters tournament would no longer be a part of the storyline by the third game, and instead have its own spin-off series. Later games in the Fatal Fury series would center around Terry Bogard's battles with Geese Howard in an attempt to stop him from finding an ancient scroll that would give him the powers of a lost martial art.

In Garou - Mark of the Wolves, it's a generation later, and Rock Howard, Terry's protege and son of Geese Howard, discovers something shocking about his past when he enters the "King of Fighters - Maximum Mayhem" tournament.

3 Games

3.1 Canonical games

These are the games that are considered part of the Fatal Fury story:

• Fatal Fury - King of Fighters
• Fatal Fury 2
• Fatal Fury 3 - Road to the Final Victory
• Real Bout Fatal Fury
• Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
• Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 - The Newcomers
• Garou - Mark of the Wolves

3.2 Non-canonical games

• Fatal Fury - First Contact

An adaptation of Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 - The Newcomers for the Neo Geo PocketThe Neo Geo Pocket was SNK's original hand held system. It was released in Japan in late 1998, and discontinued in 1999, with the advent of the Neo Geo Pocket Color, due to lower than expected sales with the Monochrome Neo Geo Pocket. The system was never.

• Fatal Fury Special

An upgrade of Fatal Fury 2 that added various characters from Fatal Fury (as well as Ryo Sakazaki from Art of FightingArt of Fighting (: Ryuko no Ken , or AOF (or RnK in video game music archives) for short, is a video game series created by SNK. It is one of the many SNK series that ties into The King of Fighters. Gameplay Art of Fighting was the first fighting game wit) into the mix. It was said that, as a result of the popularity that ensued from Ryo being a hidden character in this game, The King of Fighters as a series was born.

• Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition

A 3-D fighting game that retells the story of Fatal Fury.

• Real Bout Garou Densetsu: Dominated Mind

A port of Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 for the PlayStation, which added Alfred (the hidden boss in Real Bout: Fatal Fury 2) as a playable character, and included an all new boss character named White, who is based upon Alexander de Large, a character from the 1971 Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick ( July 26, 1928 March 7, 1999) was a Jewish- American film director born in The Bronx, New York City who lived most of his life in England. His films are highly acclaimed for their technical perfection and deep symbolism. As a director he film entitled A Clockwork OrangeA Clockwork Orange is a dystopian 1962 novel by the Mancunian writer Anthony Burgess, adapted as a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. It is widely regarded as a successor to earlier great British dystopian novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New W. One thing to note is that Geese Howard, a character in the game, now sports a haloThis article is about the Christian symbol. See Halo (disambiguation) for other uses of the term. Jesus is usually depicted with a round halo bearing a cross, as in this dome mosaic from the Church of Daphni in Athens. In Christian sacred art (Eastern and over his head, which is to be expected, since he's dead.