THE KING OF FIGHTERS 99 BOX ART SERIES

Players choose a team of three warriors and take on all challengers in this classically styled 2D fighter from the veterans at Agetec and SNK.

THE KING OF FIGHTERS 99 BOX ART SERIES

The 1999 edition of the The King of Fighters series made the rounds from the arcade to the Neo Geo and Dreamcast before finding its way to the PlayStation console with this release.

In total, there are seven teams, each containing four characters, four Team Edit characters and a boss. Unlike in previous games of the series, there are four characters per team instead of three. Two years have passed since the last King of Fighters tournament and nobody has seen Kyo Kusanagi or Iori Yagami since they defeated Orochi at the climax of the 1997 tournament, but out of the blue, new invitations are sent out to many characters, inviting them to a brand new tournament, though this competition is more of a secretive affair than the ones in '96 and '97. The game introduces several changes to the established KOF format, as well as a new story arc that would later be dubbed the 'NESTS Chronicles'. Both the Neo Geo and Dreamcast versions are included in The Kings of Fighters NESTS Hen compilation released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan. A Dreamcast version was also released under the title The King of Fighters '99 Evolution in which the stages look exactly the same as compared with the arcade counterpart only to be exclusively, remodeled into 3D rendered.

The game was ported to the Neo-Geo CD and the PlayStation as the final KOF game released for both platforms. It is the sixth installment in the company's The King of Fighters series. The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle is a 1999 head-to-head fighting game by SNK released for the Neo Geo arcade and home platform.

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