Considering I covered Joytoy KOF lineup few days ago, I might as well feature the King of Fighters game that served as my gateway to the series. Most people likely have KOF 98 as their first game considering it is the best title of once 2D Fighting game giant by SNK in Arcade scene. But being a hipster kid I was, I got into KOF series with this obscure N-Gage port simply called KOF Extreme.
N-Gage King of Fighters Extreme is essentially a mobile port of KOF EX2 Howling Blood from GBA, featuring 7 Team of 3 Rosters of Popular and New characters. KOF Extreme might be just a port version, but it was one of the two Fighting games available on N-Gage apart from one. Not exactly the definitive experience of KOF, but it is a decent fighting game where I learnt my fundamentals of 2D Fighting game from here. My favorite character in KOF Extreme is the Korean Taekwondo Champion Kim Kaphwan which remains my go-to character in subsequent KOF game. But what I noticed from KOF Extreme is that It got several characters like Moe and Reiji who are Kyo Kusanagi's teammate that somehow never appear in the future KOF game anymore for some reason. If I have the time in the future, I might visit GBA KOF EX1 just to see more of the characters exclusive to this spin-off series.
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