WP reports:
''If there's anything that the '90s taught us gamers over and over again until it rang in our ears while we tried to sleep, it was that hitting other people was a lot of fun, and the faster and more frantic the combat gets, the more fun it is. From Street Fighter II to Killer Instinct, Time Killers to Fighter's History and the dozens of stops in between, much of the decade was spent simply kicking the crap out of the other guy, whether it was a real person or a CPU opponent. Few games did it better than Fatal Fury.
Battle Archives is a series put forth by SNK-Playmore in recent months to go through the old library of NeoGeo fighting games that riddled the arcades in the early and mid-'90s. Not all of them were memorable - who would go out of their way to play World Heroes? - but the shining star was the long-running Fatal Fury series. Lasting most of a decade through nine different sequels before spinning off into the now-legendary King of Fighters series, Fury ran a strong race against high-end competitors like SF2. While Street Fighter II may have invented the genre in 1990, Fury brought a few more things to the table: substantially more speed, a robust combo system, and a pseudo-3D system using "planes" to move characters back and forth while still keeping 2D combat roots.''
