art of fighting
Art OF Fighting
Neo-geo, 1993
Art Of Fighting introduces Ryo Sakazaki and Robert
Garcia, who are searching for Ryo’s kidnapped sister Yuri by brawling their way across Southtown. The game was a graphical showcase for the Neo-geo hardware, distinguished by its fullscreen scaling and huge sprites that gained visible injuries as the brutal fights progressed. Art Of Fighting also introduced a unique system that limited the use of special moves via the ‘Spirit Gauge’. Unusually, the Super Nintendo conversion of Art Of Fighting featured some significant new additions to the game, most notably the hidden, ultra-powerful Desperation Moves which would feature prominently in later SNK fighting games.