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The King of Fighters '98 - The Slugfest © 1998 SNK.
The King of Fighters '98 takes a break from the Orochi plot line and instead is presented as a "Dream Match" game where the KOF roster duke it out for the top spot (similar to Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, but without the storyline component). Most of the characters from the past four years return, thus providing the player with a very large roster containing 38 characters. Many of the characters have been altered in an attempt to make the game balanced regardless of the player's choice of fighter. Rugal Bernstein is provided as a non-secret character for the first time in KOF '98, and several regular characters have hidden "alternate" versions that may also be used in-game.
2 players - 4 buttons per player.
[JOYSTICK] 8-way,
[A] Weak punch,
Weak kick,
[C] Strong punch,
[D] Strong kick
-Trivia-
Released in July 1998.
This game is known in Japan as "The King of Fighters '98 - Dream Match Never Ends".
Yuri has a long record of taking movements from other characters, especially Capcom (see previous KOF entries). In this new opus : Yuri's new special attack 'Shin! Chou Upper' is a knock off of Ryu's Shin Shoryuu Ken. She also has a movement similar to Terry's burn knuckle. Finally, her Forward+A is a parody of Sakura's Flower Kick.
KOF98 contains pieces of music from older KOFs.
For example, the character select music when a second player joins in is straight from KOF 96 (it's called Roulette).
Here's a complete list of themes, the teams (or individuals) they belong to and the games they were taken from :
Esaka? (Japan Team) : KOF 96 (Japan Team's theme music).
Esaka (95-style Kyo Kusanagi) : KOF 94 (Japan Team's theme music).
Kurikinton (Fatal Fury Team) : Fatal Fury 2 (Terry Bogard's theme music).
Art of Fight (Art of Fighting Team) : Art of Fighting (Ryo Sakazaki's and Ryuhaku Todo's theme music).
Rumbling in the City (Ikari Team) : KOF 96 (Ikari Team's theme music).
Shin! Senritsu no Dora (Psycho Soldier Team) : KOF95 (Psycho Soldier Team's theme music).
Fairy (Gals Fighters Team) : KOF 96 (Chizuru Kagura's theme music).
Seoul Town (Korea Team) : Real Bout Fatal Fury (Kim Kaphwan's theme music).
Bloody (New Face Team) : KOF 97 (New Face Team's theme music).
Rhythmic Hallucination (Orochi Yashiro) : KOF 97 (Orochi New Face Team's theme music).
C62 (Ryuji Yamazaki) : Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (Ryuji Yamazaki's theme music).
Blue Mary's Blues (Blue Mary) : Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (Blue Mary's theme music).
London March (Billy Kane) : Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (Billy Kane's theme music).
Arashi no Saxophone (Iori Yagami) : KOF 95 (Revenge Team's theme music).
Arashi no Saxophone 2 (Mature, Vice) : KOF 96 (Iori Team's theme music).
Slum No. 5 (USA Sports Team) : KOF 94 (USA Sports Team's theme music).
Still Green (Shingo Yabuki) : KOF 97 (Shingo Yabuki's theme music).
Ketchaku R&D (Omega Rugal) : first half from KOF 94 (Rugal Bernstein's theme music), second half from KOF 95 (Omega Rugal's theme music).
Ne! ('94 Gals Fighters Team) : KOF 94 (Gals Fighters Team's theme music).
Also to note that the music that is played prior to facing Rugal (Kettou R&D) is also from KOF 94 (as the theme for Rugal's first form).
When Choi Bounge appears, a 7 seconds sample from a song is played. This song is 'Choi Bounge Ondo', which appeared in the KOF 97 Arrange SoundTracks. The song became quite popular in Japan.
Mr. Big from "Art of Fighting" makes a small cameo appearance in the USA Wharf background, during the first rounds.
About Kyo Version 95 : Because the introduction of different versions for this character included as "hidden features" in KOF '97 was such a hit with fans, designers thought, another version of Kyo in KOF '98 would make the game more inviting. Designers also remember that both versions for Kyo Kusanagi for game tests were equally popular. This concept for different versions of this character subsequently became the basis for the 'Kyo clones'.
In the Japan Street stage, during the second round if you look in the middle of the background where some shops are, you can see tiny moving people who look like Iori, Mai and Terry Bogard. In the third and fifth round, you can see two people doing hand signals, they look similar to Kyo Kusanagi & Shingo Yabuki. In the fourth round, you can see Mai and Terry.
A serious bug : Using a USA bios rom if you insert a coin on the 'winners don't use drugs' screen on a single slot the games will use the neo+geo bios s1 tile-set rather than the game tiles, this causes most of the graphics to be hidden and the games to be unplayable, it will also end up using the main-board z80 bios so sound will be broken, the games should fix themselves if you let them run another attact loop after game over, on a multi-slot the games will reset. This is one of the first 4 'gigapower' games, the bug was fixed after that.
Overall 9.2 Graphics 9 Sound 10 Addictive 10 Depth 8 Difficulty 8
9.2
Powa Wave!! floobadoo
This is one of the best Neo-Geo games in my opinion. I can't seem to beat it, but I still love tryin...
Graphics 9 Sound 10 Addictive 10 Depth 8 Difficulty 8
Review Rating: 5/5
Submitted: 07-19-14
Review Replies: 3
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* Orochi Team (Evil Chris, Evil Shermie, Evil Yashiro) : at the Character select screen, hold Start and press any button on the normal team (Chris, Shermie, Yashiro).
* KOF94 Art of Fighting characters (Ryo, Robert, Yuri) : at the character select screen, hold Start and press any button on the Art of Fighting characters.
* KOF95 style Kyo : at the Character select screen, hold Start on Kyo and press any button.
* Real Bout 2 characters (Mai, Terry, Andy, Billy) : at the Character select screen, hold Start on the respective characters and press any button.
* View attitudes : hold Start at the match-up screen to view the attitudes of your opponents.
* Select victory pose : immediately press A, B, C, or D after defeating your opponent.
* Fight Vs Shingo Yabuki : you must win the first three levels by 3-0.
* Finish the game using one of these combinations to see the special endings :
1) Kyo, Shingo, Saisyu
2) Kyo, Iori, Chizuru
3) Kyo, Iori, Shingo
4) Kyo, Saisyu, Chris
5) Kyo, Terry, Ryo
6) Benimaru, Andy, Robert
7) Goro, Joe, Yuri
8) Terry, Clark, Lucky
9) Ryo, Yuri, Takuma
10) Yuri, Mai, Athena
11) Heidern, Ralf, Leona
12) Yashiro, Chris, Yamazaki
13) Rugal, Vice, Mature
14) Shermie, Vice, Mature
15) Shingo, Chris, Kensou
16) Kim, Saisyu, Takuma
17) Billy, Joe, Chang
18) Chin, Chang, Choi
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floobadoo 06-28-14 - 08:07 PM wait they are the same
floobadoo 07-26-13 - 03:57 PM This is better than the home version