I do believe that Dominated Mind’s White’s design is based on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange’s “droogs” style. Especially the main character, Alex DeLarge, who is also using a cane. Maybe that is why it was not published in the west or there is no remake.
Agreed. If we want more comparisons with Street Fighter: _Fatal Fury Special_ = _Super Street Fighter 2_ _Real Bout Fatal Fury Special_ and _2_ = _Street Fighter Alpha 2_ and _3_ _Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition_ = _Street Fighter EX2_ _Garou: Mark of the Wolves_ = _Street Fighter 3: Third Strike_ _Neo Geo Battle Colliseum_ = _Capcom Fighting Evolution_ And if you include KoF into that list, the similarities become even more apparent. I'd say _The King of Fighters XV_ is equal to _Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition._
@@BknMoonStudios thank you for the list! I played only some of the Fatal Fury games and Street Fighter games. If I want to play one game but cant find it, I will look for another game similar to it on your list.
Just to mention it, due to Brazil being heavily influenced by piracy during the PSX era, Real Bout Dominated Mind was kinda the norm. Was so engraved with players around here that when I tried Real Bout 2 on PS2 I was bummed that Final Impacts were absent... Anyway Matt, thank you. Holy shit.
I was gonna say, pirated games were very common here in Brazil and weren't limited to US English releases. I played many a Japanese PS1 games like that back in the day, I played much more Soul Edge than Soul Blade for example. There's even a documentary showing how piracy actually made gaming here possible.
Terry is my favorite fighting game character of all time. His moveset, story, characterization, and AMAZING voice work are all absolutely perfect. I've been getting my son into FF and KoF and this video really helped bring my love for the character and the series home for him. Awesome video Matt, thank you.
Hell of a retrospective. As far as the Canon goes, Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting were connected, AoF 1 and 2 taking place about 10 years before FF (AoF2's secret ending and boss fight against young Geese taking place before he murders Jeff Bogard) while KoF is an alternate universe, hence why Geese never died and AoF and FF characters are of similar age groups,etc.
I still remember when I played Fatal Fury for the first time: I was 10-11 years old and I saw in the arcade next to SF Champion edition, this protagonist who wore an "orange" cap and wore sneakers ... I fell in love with the game in less than 1 minute. It's my favorite game franchise, and I'm excited to see you do such a thorough review. I will enjoy it like when I saw Fata Fury for the first time: as a 10 year old boy having his snack.
*Opponent falls to the ground, puts arms up to block Terry: "Are you okay?" Opponent: *lowers arms "Thank you!" "I can no longer fi....." Terry: "BUSTA WOLF!!" Opponent: "SON OF A..... AHHH!!"
Just a few notes: There were only 3 scrolls. One with Master Tung (Geese got it), one with Krauser and one with the Jin twins. And Rock mother's name is Marie. Thanks for the video! ^^
The Fatal Fury games take place in an alternate timelime from the KOF games. (Same with Art of Fighting) That's why Geese is alive in the King of Fighters games
Wubba, wubba. You're in the pink today, Matt! But seriously, Fatal Fury is one of my all-time favorite series. I played and reviewed all of the game years ago, and Garou is still one of games I still play regularly. So much fun, so much lore, so many memories... Thanks for the awesome video!
I learned to sew to make a Terry jacket 😆. My introduction to Fatal Fury was during scifi's anime week hosted by Apollo Smile. The next day I called my local Game stop (before they blew) to see if they had anything. They had 1 copy of Wild ambition (a time where you took what you could get) and played that game till the disc burned.
Fun Facts:---Kim Kaphwan is the FIRST Korean fighting game character! Fatal Fury 2 was the first videogame in history to have “Jiggle Physics” with Mai Shiranui’s victory animation!
Geese didn't fake his death! He actually had 1 of the 3 Scrolls the Brothers Jin want. The scroll made him somewhat invulnerable, which explains how he survived the fall in FF1.
You'd think after an experience like that he'd want to hold on to it. I always liked the idea that he saved himself by inventing the Shippuuken on the spot as he fell, and using it to stop his descent.
@@AirLancer sorry, man. That was a joke amongst fans. Like I said, the scroll he had that helped him survive the fall, was called the Scroll of the Phoenix. All it did was speed up his recovery, not becoming invulnerable. Have to correct myself in that last comment. By the way, he should hold on to the scroll longer, but Matt did say Geese tore up all 3 Scrolls of the Jin, so that no one would get a leg up on him. Some things are better in hindsight, which pretty much sucks.
@@manson2178 Isn't the twist in 3 that the scrolls don't actually have any powers, and the Jin brothers did all of that for nothing? I think Geese did survive on his own and pretended to be dead until 3, where he got the scrolls and burned them because he still believed they had powers and could be used by someone else to oppose him.
There is going to be another Fatal Fury game. Sequel, Garou Mark of the Wolves 2 got announced a week ago during EVO 2022. Officially greenlit to be in development at SNK.
Back when I was in high school I remember working at the Tech Museum in San Jose. At the time, they had an exhibit floor dedicated to gaming history. They had a bunch of obscure cabinets and Garou: Mark of the Wolves was my first exposure to Fatal Fury. Whenever I had a break and my supervisors weren't around, I'd dump my time off trying to fight Kain. Really appreciate the nostalgia trip Matt.
Fatal Fury arcade machines were very popular around here in Brazil... I miss this... Thank you for this love letter to the series Matt! Speaking of 'dormant' series, I also would love to know what happened to Time Splitters....Those were some of the most fun and content packed FPSs I ever had the opportunity to check...
I literally DID buy the PlayStation version of Real Bout from a Virgin Megastore bargain bin about 20 years ago! Still have it too! Thanks for making that find feel even more special
14:56. I almost spilled my entire bottle of water at the screen. Wubba wubba, I was not prepared for it, today. xD Here in Brazil we played a lot of FF Special, KoFs and Garou. What an awesome video.
I remember playing Fatal Fury in Alabama years ago when SNK was still a household name in North America. I don't know why SNK's presence faded from North America, but I can say they were around back then.
@@Rotostorm331 Capcom really did it's job in advertising and release of games in N.A.. I believe. KoF and other titles are very famous in Central and South America though. KoF is still popular among fighting game fans, in Brazil. We're hoping KoF XV becomes a great game, too.
@@MuJoNeSs It's odd how it's been 20 years since SNK went under and yet we still don't fully know what caused it aside from the Neo-Geo systems failing and the reliance on Arcades. I personally think that other factors contributed to SNK's bankruptcy and I hope one day, someone will make a video about it for everyone to hear and see.
@@Rotostorm331 Maybe sells weren't that great, because the Neo Geo console was sold at a stupidly high price. Capcom thrived a lot making games for the most popular consoles. They have very strong IPs too. SNK was very strong, but when 3d games started to get most of the atention of the public, they lost copious amounts of money on games that flopped hard. Too sad.
This was really cool to see, thanks for making it. I don't know what your experience is with Samurai Shodown. I'd love to see a history video for that series.
It's so crazy to me on how long it took me to get into the SNK library. Growing up, I only knew them as the guys who made Metal Slug 2 and its bopping soundtrack. Terry and KOF were out of my sight for years. Come this year, in the middle of college, burnt out with a handful of AAA games, I decided to begin emulating my old library. One thing led to another and I was able to get a handful of my library running on RetroArch. When I first saw KOF as a game, it was on a sale for cheap on GOG and I was still getting into PC gaming at the time, spending $7 at most on games for sale that got my interest. It was definitely a while since I played Street Fighter V, so I took a chance with the sale for KOF 98 UM Final Edition. At first glance, I had the feeling that this was a cop out capcom fighting game, as it played similarly out of the box. I'd pick characters like Ryo, Kyo, and Terry because they seemed more Capcom-esque to start with. The game turned out to be more complicated than I thought. I did however take note on its incredible arcade OST's, as they were, almost all the time, fun to jam to than play. I later found the arrange soundtracks for the titles and KOF ones in question during the summer and realized something: SNK at their peak makes better music than Capcom for fighting games. The songs hyped me up, even though I never played any of the games during summer. When school came back in session, I'd begin my runs through the first 3 KOF games between engineering classes and had a blast learning and vibing to the games and their mechanics. Somewhere down the line, I would like to play the Fatal Fury games as I have already listened to FF2 Special and Real Bout Arrange Soundtracks so many times, it took over my music queues for a week! Learning how to play some of the songs as I started playing guitar this year. Capcom will always be near and dear to my heart, for their art, designs, music, & that game-style feel that made me play video games in the first place (Still love them to this day even with their highs and lows). But I was genuinely surprised this year with what SNK had to offer, and for what is in store for me when I do play some of their other amazing games down the line. ALSO: Thanks for that GOD HAND take earlier! Just heard about the game months ago and am still finding new details about their production even now! Can't wait to play it after I finish Silent Hill 3!
This is a great video for someone like me who grew up mainly with Street Fighter, MK and Toshinden and never had much exposure to KoF and is trying to understand it all nowadays. I must say I was impressed by the presentation of KoF ‘94 when I gave it a try a while back, like the stage intros and narrative text.
This was absolutely glorious. Thanks for the trip. Was there really any other way to close out the video than with a blast of "Oh Angel?" No . . . no there really wasn't. Kudos to you sir. "Run your own race. Why go for second place? Common and grab a star."
Shout out to you for taking the time to make this Video. It’s damn near 2AM and I’m just sitting here watching with my chin Resting on both palms, like a little kid watching Saturday morning cartoons. I know this video is only an hour but I can’t even imagine how much time it took you to even compile the research and essay for this video. Seriously, thank you.
This was such a fantastic video to watch! To tell you the truth you were the one that half a year ago inspired me to try out a SNK game and now I love them! I love Fatal Fury, KOF and Metal Slug and I’m thankful I gave these fun games a try thanks to your influence 😊
I'll always love Wild Ambition for Ryo alone. What a kickass look and set of moves.
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In the early 2000s we had an arcade with Real Bout in the small village I lived in (from Romania) and let me tell you those were best memories from my childhood. We'd spend all summer playing the damn game, wasting countless coins, sometimes skipping school or stealing money from our parents, sometimes getting into real fights over matches. What a bunch of little punks, good times man.
I have my own little Fatal Fury Special for the SNES story. I saw it at Zellers upon its release for the not so fiscally convenient price of $97.99. Every so often as I revisited the store and saw the SNES library shrink, there sat Special. This went on for maybe 2 years or so as the then next gen consoles (N64, Playstation and even a few Saturn) games came out. The few remaining SNES games had all dropped in price but not Special. Then around my birthday in late 1997, I would once again visit Zellers and what did I see? Fatal Fury Special was the only SNES game left and it was now $27.99. Safe to say I grabbed it and have kept it in my collection to this day. Considering other SNK fighters such as Samurai Shodown, Art of Fighting and World Heroes stopped receiving SNES ports, I felt this was a big deal. Bonus Mini Fatal Fury 3 story: The first time I played it was part of a double disc PC package that also came with Samurai Shodown 2. I think they were Neo-Geo ports and with Shodown 2 one of my all time favourite fighting games, I didn't play as much of Fatal Fury 3. I found it a step back from Special with the smaller roster and the slight gameplay tweak that wasn't necessarily bad, just something I felt wasn't broke with Special.
I was lucky enough to be living in Japan in the mid-90s and a video rental store near where I lived had a mini-arcade which always seemed to get the latest Neo Geo games. Thus, I was lucky enough to play Road to the Final Victory, Real Bout and Real Bout Special when they first hit arcades. Enjoyed them so much that when I finally overspent on getting a Neo Geo CD (mainly to get Samurai Shodown 2; the greatest fighting game ever made--no arguments, it just is) I got all three of those as well; super long loading times and all! Thank you for bringing Dominating Mind to my attention, I had never heard of that one.
Dude, I'm going to make you jealous. I have an old copy of Fatal Fury 3 for the PC that came out when I was young. It's one of the main reasons why I became such a big fan of Fatal Fury. I have no idea where my parents found it, but I still have it to this day.
Great video. As someone who lives in Asia, I've played all of these in console version. Some are pirated version 😅 Truly an amazing series from SNK. Now, if only we can finally play as Jeff Bogard in the next game 😅
Seeing those Garou 2 screenshots and what could have been 😭😭. Also, Terry's Buster Wolf sounds the best in Garou IMO. The animation, sfx and voicework, all Terr-ific... I'll see myself out.
Wild Ambition is actually how my sister and I started to find common ground, she is a Demon with Sendo, like when she was 9 and destroying my friends and I and had no problem doing her pretzel moves. I eventually got better with Geese and Terry, but a 9 year destroying a room of 15 year olds with Sendo is terrifying. She still plays fighting games, mostly SNK games even now 23 years later.
Knowing that so many people didn’t get to play several of these games makes me feel so fortunate and lucky! I got to play (and become good at) them all!
Fantastic journey through one of the greatest fighting game IPs. Man, looking at those EGM and GAMEFAN magazine screenshots of Fatal Fury 3 was so painful. I didn't play it until the PS2 FF collection came out. Great video sir!!
Used to have the red high top converse in fifth grade around 2002 because of this game; ended up finding an SNK art book at a weeb anime shop in the mall, was obsessed. Terry was my hero as a kid
From what I heard the European Real Bout Fatal Fury was meant to be rental only. So when my local Blockbuster was selling off their old stock I managed to pick it up for less than a tenner. I still have it, so I can confirm it's existence.
Wild Ambition was my introduction to the series. I've managed to play Fatal Fury Special and Garou from XBL. Garou's my favorite 2D fighter. I'm glad it was ported to PS4 because I don't enjoy the 360's D-pad as much with 2D fighters. I enjoy the KOF games, but to a less extent since I'm just not fond of the required 3 on 3 battle system. I like everything else about the series, but that.
Fatal Fury 2 is still one of the greatest fighting games I ever played. The music, the presentation, everything was on point. If you can do World Heroes.
Awesome retrospective. I know very little about the series, except I had played Fatal Fury, the first one, in an arcade cabinet at a birthday party in Burger King when I was very young. I didn't even know the name of the game but remember enjoying it a lot. I remember not being able to beat the old dude who gets muscular in the middle of the match but I'm glad to see how many entries this series has spawned. It actually makes me nostalgic of my younger days.
I'm not trying to make fun of you but I am curious. I am American and I have never heard of anyone having a "birthday party in Burger King", nor do I ever remember coin-ops being at any Burger Kings. What country was this in?
@@originalm3233 Haha, that's true, it's funny because fast food places in other countries is so different than in the US. I heard that KFC in China is basically a gourmet restaurant. While I was born in the US, I did live overseas for a number of years. The country I was at when I went to the Burger Kid with the NeoGeo arcade machines was Saudi Arabia, I believe it was in Riyadh as well. They also had some side games which were not video games. Believe it or not, I even have video footage of the birthday, lol. I do remember there was another fast food place around called Wimpy's but I don't recall ever having seen it in the US. Geez, rewatching that makes me miss my 90's childhood.
@@shahrouh Thanks for the reply, I knew it could not be in the USA. During the 1980s there were coin-ops everywhere and in very weird places (like doctors offices for example). However, by 1988 this had ended. There were never any coin-ops in Burger King or McDonalds and people rarely if ever had birthday parties there. That's how I knew it could not be in the usa. Thanks again for sharing your memories.
@@originalm3233 That's pretty interesting. As I lived abroad largely, only snippets of me at a younger age were spent in the US. I do remember passing by a random burger joint with a Simpsons arcade game, but also never had seen arcade machines in Burger King, just play places. There are a couple of McDonald's which do have birthday party rooms but I don;t know how many birthdays actually occur there, though I have seen a couple. It's nice to remenisce about the 90's man, certainly better times than what we're living in now.
Great retrospective Matt. Thanks! I had no idea about that Dominated Mind existed??!! I was lucky to play in an arcade from’94-2005.( managed it the last 5 years) Got lucky a friend had access to the MVS carts and the Hyper 64 board. Played Wild Ambition connecting the supers was fun and Toji/Tsugumi were highlights. Real Bout/RBS and of course Garou are the zenith for me. ( FFS fighting Argo as well!) So many awesome memories thanks for letting people know about these gems of Fighting Games!
I've been playing video games since 1985 when I was 2, and I s*** you not, the first time I heard of Terry Bogard was when he was added to Smash. I've got vague recollection of SNK stages from the MUGEN PC boom in the late 90's/early aughts, but that's it. And I watched this from beginning to end. This is a credit to the interesting history of this SNK fighting series, but also to Matt McMuscles' fun and interesting docu-series style. Thank you for putting this together!
I never thought about how on the rare occasions when other fighting game franchises borrow SNK characters, it's always the most well known Fatal Fury characters rather than any KOF ones, even now, 2 years after this video was released, we're getting Terry and Main in SF6 (although that's most likely the case thanks to Fatal Fury coming back than anything else), the only mention of a KOF original character being even considered as a guest character that I can think of in recent memory, is Harada briefly mentioning Rugal as an example when discussing guest characters for T8, and as cool as that would be, I really wanna see Rock Howard as a guest in T8 more than any other SNK character
I’m amazed that “First Contact” was my first SNK fighter. The system wasn’t even mine, I don’t remember who’s it was, and I sucked at it since I was like 7. I mainly played as Billy since I liked that he fought with a staff.
YESSS for the love of god do a Samurai shodown retrospective 😭❤ that legendary franchise deserves a lengthy video you like this! I've been freaking out that haohmaru is in KOF!!! I mean finally 😂😭❤ Samurai shodown influenced soo many developers of capcom,namco and many others! In recent interviews many of them chose their favorite games & characters, and most of their choices was from Samurai shodown! It had rich history & some gorgeous arts & mechanics, its basically the granddaddy of all weapon based fighting games! Bro i grow up with fatal fury,Samurai shodown,art of fighting & ofc kof! So their music alone makes me emotional, soooo many memories! Everything about the 90s man 😭❤ samsho have soo many hidden secrets & stories so you will have a blast doing a vid like this! Just listening to its music rn 😂❤ thanks matt for these type of videos for these iconic franchises! Seeing this after FF IS BACK makes it even the more sweeter 😭❤ ahm and you're right Mai was most of us crushes, idk how many times i watched the ova and movies for her, funny enough over 25 years and i still absolutely adore her 😂❤
It's so hard to find quality content on SNK games and this my friend is a masterpiece. Highly entertaining and very enjoyable. Fantastic video. Thanks.
Beautifully done! It's because of you guys that my passion for fighting games exploded! All from that First episode of Fisticuffs. Garou Mark of the Wolves and honestly the whole Garou Densetsu series has become apart of my D.N.A. Thank You!
As someone more familiar with the anime OVAs than the games, your choice of credits music was the cherry on top of this incredible retrospective. Great work.
