Trivia
It was named Best Neo Geo Game in VideoGames magazine (March 1995) 1994 Game Awards
Technically, this is not the first King of Fighters game. When Capcom introduced Street Fighter II in 1991, it was given the subtitle The World Warrior. SNK did not want to be outdone, and subtitled Fatal Fury King of Fighters.
Contributed by
Sciere 
(124883) on Nov 20, 2005.
During the story sequences before fighting against Rugal Bernstein, you can see a few statues of fighters that he had defeated in the past. If you look closely, you'll notice that one of the characters looks a lot like Guile, from Street Fighter II!
Capcom Vs. SNK has a special easter egg related to this little pun: If a fight between Guile and Rugal Bernstein occurs, they have a special intro where Guile destroys a statue of himself in front of Rugal before they start the fight.
Contributed by
Foxhack (10893) on Jul 26, 2005.
Rugal Bernstein, the final boss, was originally intended to be a super boss who had the skills of all the characters in the game; however, space limitations prevented that, so the designers decided to give him two moves from the deadliest characters in the SNK universe at the time: Geese Howard's Reppuken, and Wolfgang Krauser's Kaiser Wave.
Contributed by
Foxhack (10893) on Jul 26, 2005.
