"When Street Fighter II first arrived in arcades in the 90's to forever revolutionize the fighting game genre, many copycats and challengers came and went over the decades only to fall into cultural obscurity. Only a select few fighting franchises remain from that decades-long battle, with Mortal Kombat often considered the closest competitor to giving Capcom's flagship fighter a run for its money (at least as far as the West is concerned). For Japan, it was SNK's King of Fighters series that stood opposite Street Fighter in the arcade ring while also maintaining a strong cult following in the West. Whereas Capcom kept their Street Fighter universe (mostly) self-contained, SNK would utilize almost every single original property under their company to create a wildly diverse cast of characters (including the ones that did not originally begin as fighting games), thus making KoF the very heart of their company."
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