SNK Gals' Fighters

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SNK Gals' Fighters
Developer(s) Yumekobo
Publisher(s) Japan SNK Corporation
USA SNK of America
Release date(s) Japan January 27, 2000
USA February 19, 2000
Genre(s) Versus fighting game
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer
Platform(s) Neo Geo Pocket Color
Media 8-Bit Cartridge

Gals' Fighters is a 2-dimensional 1-on-1 versus fighting game which appeared on the Neo Geo Pocket Colour in 2000. It featured female characters from various SNK franchises, where the characters compete in the aptly-named The Queen of Fighters tournament, organized by a mysterious "Miss X", with whoever being able to defeat "Miss X" (in reality, Iori Yagami dressed as a woman) being given the K' Talisman, which grants ANY wish. The characters sprites were drawn in the same anime super deformed style as other fighters on the system.

The game plays similar to its cousins, KOF R-1 and KOF R-2, although slightly faster, and with 1-on-1 matches instead. It also features items to help make matches easier, or are just spoils of victory.

By this time the popularity of the Neo Geo Pocket Colour was already in decline and SNK contemplating its withdrawal from shelves outside Japan. The game's fairly narrow focus (It was geared towards girls with perhaps a fleeting interest in the complexities of other 2D fighting games, SNK's various offerings chief among them) conspired to lend it an equally narrow appeal. It was therefore not a success for the company in the vein of SNK vs. Capcom, released at around the same time.

The game is usually not prominent in discussion, and therefore a consensus view on its merits and demerits is difficult to obtain.

[edit] Characters

Normal

Hidden

Bosses

  • Whip - King of Fighters '99
  • Miss X - Character wise it's "her" first appearance, although technically its KOF'95

[edit] Trivia

  • The only game in which Yuki, Kyo's girlfriend, appears as a fighter.
  • The only other males to appear in the game other than Iori, are Kyo, Ryo Sakazaki, Takuma Sakazaki (as Mr. Karate), Sie Kensou, Juzoh Kanzaki, Yashiro Nanakase and the Ikari soldiers.
  • Certain attacks are changed for comic effect, such as Yuri's Haoh-Sho-Ko-Ken and Raioh-ken, and Leona's earring bomb.
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