NekoIncardine writes:
''Everyone who gamed in the '90s - and many who didn't - remembers Street Fighter II. Across numerous iterations, the six buttons and one joystick comprised quite possibly the best fighting games ever created. What more people would care to forget are the many, many rip-offs that were made in the process. Technically, one could call Fatal Fury an aping of elements of Street Fighter (I don't), and to this day, many other games are mechanically similar. There were obvious rip-offs ... and then there were strange rip-offs. SNK's World Heroes series manages to fit under both categories, practically serving as a parody of the Street Fighter series at the same time that it proved to be SNK's least competent fighting series ever produced.
There's actually a semblance of a plot besides "fighting tournament" for each of the four World Heroes games. Dr. Brown has invented a time machine, and while the game packaging describes him as "diabolical," he seems more intellectually curious, since he wants to figure out which fighter is the strongest by looking at excellent fighters throughout Earth's existence. So he puts together ... a tournament, of course. With this classic framing device, the player goes in and fights the AI or other players in the same vein that any gamer has experienced at least once.''
