King of Fighters Collection unveiled

By Robert Purchese Published 16 October, 2008

Five games in one for Wii, PS2, PSP.

Ignition plans to release a King of Fighters Collection for Wii, PS2 and PSP this winter.

Inside The Orochi Saga are five yearly updates to the SNK 2D fighting series, starting from the very first game in 1994, all the way up to 1998.

King of Fighters was originally envisaged as a way to pit characters from outings such as Fatal Fury and Art of Fighter against each other.

Judging by the amount of sequels, the series has evidently been popular down the years. King of Fighters '94 also recently popped up on Virtual Console and earned 8/10 from us.

Five games, over 60 fighters, 2D graphics and a Colour Edit Mode. Worth a punt, perhaps - if you like that sort of thing.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • FabricatedLunatic #1 3 years ago

    I'll have me some of that for PSP.

  • Shakey_Jake33 #2 3 years ago

    Sounds good to me. I bought the Metal Slug Collection because it was such a good way to catch up a game series that I'd neglected and found out what I was missing. While I'm very familiar with the KoF games, collections like these are such an easy way to catch up without the daunting prospect of having to track down the original games.

  • dr_faulk #3 3 years ago

    lol eYE luV k0F T3H BEZT 4EVR!

  • illusiondance #4 3 years ago

    I agree entirely with Doctor Faulk.
    ...but where is the 12? (its so tasty).

  • Kon #5 3 years ago

    May as well have put '99 in there and have the whole collection out on PAL territories. Well, just as long as they don't pull a Metal Slug on the PS2 version I'll be sure to get it when it's out, which judging from the announcement to actual release ratio of SNK titlles by Ignition over the last year or so it could very well be by the time the PS4 rolls out.

  • mcwildcard #6 3 years ago

    Noooooooooo!! I just sold my 60GB PS3 to buy a new 80GB one!!!
    :o(

  • HyperShadow #7 3 years ago

    They couldn't put '99 in there, as that is the first part of the NEST's saga, and tis is the Orochi saga.

    Looks like we'll have to wait.

    But XII soon please.

  • Cadence #8 3 years ago

    Hope they get around to releasing '98 on VC. That was my favourite.

  • Kon #9 3 years ago

    "They couldn't put '99 in there, as that is the first part of the NEST's saga, and tis is the Orochi saga.

    Looks like we'll have to wait. "

    The Orichi saga spans three titles, this collection includes five. I would prefer completion to a false pretense of storyline cohesion any day of the week.

    Seeing as KoF 2000/2001 was already released, by Ignition no less, they already published 2/3 of the NEST's saga. I don't think they will be doing another release that includes KoF99 so that will probably leave that game as the only one unpublished here. Speaking of which, where's Mark of the Wolves?

  • mcwildcard #10 3 years ago

    If any other PS3 owners are interested, a good few of the PSOne versions of KoF games are available on the Hong Kong PS Store.

  • neonemesis #11 3 years ago

    Brilliant news. I've been waiting for something like this since Art of Fighting Anthology and also been kinda disappointed that there are so many of these collections available in the US (Fatal Fury Battle Archives, World Heroes Anthology etc.) but not over here.

    What I really want to know though, is will Ignition bring the PS2 version of KOF 98: Ultimate Match to these shores? I know its scheduled for a XBLA release but I don't have a 360.

  • Slipstream #12 3 years ago

    The Orichi saga spans three titles, this collection includes five. I would prefer completion to a false pretense of storyline cohesion any day of the week.

    Why put '99 in there and leave that Saga unfinished? KoF '98 is a Dream Match, it just features all of the characters up to that point, and other than character ties, has no real plot point. The Orochi Saga ended in '97 and the games before it (even Rugal's scenarios) all tie into the Orochi saga.
    Edited by 1 at 20/10/08 @ 15:28