Yuri Sakazaki has been kidnapped! Her big brother Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia, his best friend, go search for her on the streets of South Town. As they go deeper and deeper they will find clues as to who ordered the kidnapping, the Sakazaki family's relation to the mob, and a person from their past.

This fighting game is a coin-op conversion of the Neo-Geo hit of the same name, and has all characters, stages, and moves featured in the arcade unit. Unlike the original arcade version, players can now play as Mr. Big and the elusive Mr. Karate.

The gameplay differs from most fighting games. In this game, you have a Spirit meter. A Spirit meter is in the game and will decrease as you perform special moves. It can be recharged, but doing so leaves you open to attack. When your health is almost gone, you can perform a secret combination that will unleash a deadly attack on your opponent - provided you have a full Spirit meter.

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Alternate Titles

"龍虎の拳" -- Japanese spelling
"Ryūko no Ken" -- Japanese title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Art of Fighting	SNES	$0.01
	Art of Fighting	Genesis	$0.01
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GamePro (US)	SNES	Dec, 1993	4 out of 5	80
SEGA-Mag (Objectif-SEGA)	Genesis	Sep 04, 2009	8 out of 10	80
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	Genesis	Sep, 1994	7 out of 10	70
The Video Game Critic	Neo Geo	Sep 05, 2007	C+	58
Super Play Magazine UK	SNES	Jan, 1994	56 out of 100	56
Total! (Germany)	SNES	Jan, 1994	3.25 out of 6	55
All Game Guide	Genesis	1999		50
All Game Guide	SNES	1998		50
Defunct Games	Neo Geo	Aug 28, 2004	C-	42
The Virtual Console Archive	Wii	Sep, 2007		40

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Trivia

Continuity

According to SNK's original timeline, the events that happen in this game take place ten years before Fatal Fury; however, when the The King of Fighters series was created, both timelines were merged, even though the backstories for both series remained mostly the same.

Innovations

Not only did Art of Fighting have the honor of being the first fighting that introduced the 'camera zoom' - where the camera zooms in whenever the fighters are close together, and zooms out when the fighters move away from each other - but it also was the first to utilize a 'spirit meter'. Every time a fighter executes a special move, the spirit meter is depleted accordingly, and the more powerful the special move, the more it depletes. When this meter is empty, special moves can no longer be executed.