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, in Japan and in video game music archives), or AOF (or RnK in video game music archives) for short, is a fighting game series created by SNK. It is one of the many SNK series that ties into The King of Fighters.

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Gameplay

Art of Fighting was the first fighting game with a super bar, and introduced the spirit gauge and desperation move (the equivalent of super moves, often used with SNK fighting games) into the fighting game vernacular. A spirit gauge is a manually charged super combo gauge where all special moves will utilize and drain, with greater amounts of power dealing greater amounts of damage.

Story

The central story of the original Art of Fighting is a typical damsel in distress story set in the fictitious city of Southtown (a common setting among SNK games), where the duo of Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia try to rescue Ryo's sister and Robert's love interest, Yuri Sakazaki. It takes place before the Fatal Fury series, since Jeff Bogard, father of Terry and Andy Bogard from Fatal Fury, is alive at the time Art of Fighting took place, according to what Takuma Sakazaki said during the ending. Also, in the second game we can see a 26 years old Geese Howard, when he was just a corrupt police commissioner making his way through the way of the underworld, as the secret final boss.

Although the story starts this way, future games would focus more on the struggles of the Sakazaki family and their fictitious style of karate known as Kyokugenryu Karate (meaning "Extreme style"). The more recent games containing the Sakazaki family are outside the Art of Fighting series, mostly the King of Fighters series.

On its own, the Art of Fighting series seems to take place in the 1978 - 1979, judging by the birthdates of its characters (Ryo's AoF birthyear is 1957). When SNK brought the characters from its many games together for the King of Fighters, they adjusted the birthdates (didn't give any characters's birthyears) to have the characters interact with each other without having to remake character sprites to account for age. This does create a discrepancy within Takuma's history, as he was originally a contemporary of Jeff Bogard, who is killed in the early 80s by Geese Howard. However, to accommodate the fact that the cast of Garou: Mark of the Wolves and characters such as Terry Bogard are being aged to match the supposed timeframe of the Mark of the Wolves games (which is said to take place in the year 2006) for The King of Fighters series, a lot of the Art of Fighting characters are being slowly aged to match how they would look had the Art of Fighting timeline not been altered. An example of this is Ryo in Buriki One and him and Robert in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.

Games

Art of Fighting series

Ports

All 3 games were released for the MVS Arcade System, Neo Geo Home System, as well as Neo Geo CD. No version of AOF exists for the Neo Geo Pocket.

Spin-offs

Characters

Characters From Fatal Fury

Characters appearing outside this series

These include characters that have appeared in The King of Fighters as well as the SNK vs. series.

Other characters

Trivia

External links

 Art of Fighting
Characters
Eiji Kisaragi - Geese Howard - Kasumi Todoh - King (SNK character)>King - Mr. Big - Mr. Karate - Robert Garcia - Ryo Sakazaki - Ryuhaku Todoh - Yuri Sakazaki - Jack Turner - Lee Pai Long - Mickey Rogers - John Crawley - Karman Cole - Roddy Birts - Lenny Creston - Wang Koh San - Wyler

 

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