14 DAY TRIAL // Nothing beats the fighting classics such as Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Art of Fighting, The King of Fighters and even real old ones such as the Fatal Fury series. According to this report coming from SNK themselves, a Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Vol. 1 has shipped for the PlayStation 2 system, retailing for a mere $14.99. Leaving aside that PS2 owners are lucky enough to get the title for their system, the price is incredibly low. This is a must have volume, honest to God!
Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Vol. 1 includes four classic Fatal Fury games:
- Fatal Fury - Fatal Fury 2 - Fatal Fury Special - Fatal Fury 3: Road to The Final Victory
"With the release of FATAL FURY: BATTLE ARCHIVES Vol. 1 for the PlayStation2 system, a brand-new generation of gamers will be introduced to one of SNK PLAYMORE's earliest fighting classics," said Ben Herman, president of SNK PLAYMORE USA CORPORATION, "and gamers who loved FATAL FURY 15 years ago will relish the chance to revisit the golden age of 2D fighters."
As stated in the introductory paragraph, the compilation's release will mark the first time Fatal Fury has appeared on the PlayStation2 system in North America, the report confirms.
Fatal Fury was the first fighting game to feature a two-plane system, allowing characters to dodge out of harm's way when confronted with a challenger's attacks. Later, games dropped the two-plane system, replacing it with a complex system of dodging, according to Wikipedia. Characters often had moves that could attack across the two planes, attack both planes at once, or otherwise attack characters attempting to dodge.
Then the series experimented with various other gimmicks, such as Ring-outs - a character loses the round if it's thrown into the edges of the fighting backdrop; Single-plane backdrops - the element of dodging is eliminated altogether.
Of course, the most successful of these gimmicks were the Deadly Rave and Just Defend, where the player would perform phenomenal hit combos or use a type of protected block in order to regain lost life/energy.