I quite enjoy SNK’s Fatal Fury series. I’ve recently posted an article at my personal blog discussing the original 1991 Neo Geo fighting game and how it’s really like an alternate evolution of Capcom’s 1987 Street Fighter:
A common misconception is that Fatal Fury is a rip-off of Street Fighter II. It was easy to come to this conclusion in 1991, being that Fatal Fury‘s release trailed Street Fighter II by nine months, and given the enormous popularity of the latter, it was impossible not to compare them. What needs to be realized, however, is that both games share common ancestry. Fatal Fury was the brainchild of Takashi Nishiyama, who had previously worked at Capcom, and was actually the creator of the original Street Fighter. Both Fatal Fury and Street Fighter II were building off the foundations of the same game, but taking its concept in entirely different directions.
You can read the full article at my blog, Lark’s Island: Fatal Fury – The Other Street Fighter II
