The King of Fighters '99
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| The King of Fighters '99 | |
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 Promotional poster for The King of Fighters '99. |
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| Developer(s) | SNK |
| Publisher(s) | SNK |
| Release date(s) | July 22, 1999 |
| Genre(s) | Versus Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Team Battle; Up to 2 players simultaneously |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Neo Geo CD |
| Input | 8-way Joystick, 5 Buttons |
| Arcade cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system(s) | Neo-Geo |
The King of Fighters '99 is the sixth game in the King of Fighters series. Introducting new elements like the Striker Match and Counter Mode, and increasing the number of characters per team from three to four. The game acts as the first of a three part story known as the The NESTS Chronicles involving a shadowy organisation plotting world domination, this part introducing the concept of the Kyo Kusanagi clones and K' who would be a major, if not the main, character in the story.
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It has been two years since the last King Of Fighters tournament (King Of Fighters '98 is a non-canonical 'dream match' game) and no-one has seen Kyo Kusanagi or Iori Yagami since they defeated Orochi at the climax of that tournament. But out of the blue new invitations are sent out to characters inviting them to a brand new tournament returning to the King Of Fighters roots as an underground secretive affair far from the mass media and big business of the tournaments from previous years it also changes the team requirement from 3 fighters per team to four.
The increased number of characters per team, as well as the story element of the missing Kyo and Iori lead to the reshuffling of a lot of teams, most notably the Women's Fighters Team and Hero Team. With Kyo missing his team-mates Shingo Yabuki and Benimaru Nikaido paired up with two mysterious new fighters K' and Maxima and with Mai Shiranui finally accepted onto the Fatal Fury Team after six tournaments and Yuri Sakazaki working with her brother Ryo Sakazaki on the Art of Fighting team King was forced to formed a new Women's Fighters Team with her connections in Southtown, introducing Kasumi Todo (from Art Of Fighting 3) and Li Xiangfei (from Real Bout Fatal Fury 2) to the King Of Fighters cast for the first time.
The tournament had an additional surprise in two single entries, both clones of Kyo Kusanagi but besides this the tournament went as could be expected, and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary until The Hero Team reached the final battle (a feat considerably helped by their powerful new members) which to their surprise was in a sewer, the sewer tunnel soon revealed itself as an elevator to and entrance to strange underground location, as the Hero Team descended Heidern, leader of the Ikari Warrios mercenary squad discovers strange signals coming from all over the world, the source of these signals being millions of Kyo Kusanagi clones hidden all over the world, Heidern traces the source to the exact same location as where the Hero Team are.
The Hero Team are greeted by Krizalid in a dark room and a battle between he and the team commence and Krizalid displays incredible power, the fight lasts some time untli Krizalid is knocked to the floor by Benimaru, Krizalid then revals the room is his underground base and explains his intentions; he took Kyo Kusanagi, unconscious after his battle with Orochi two years previous and used his DNA to clone him but the real Kyo escaped midway through the process. Krizalid held the King Of Fighters tournament to find powerful fighters who 'fight data' he could input into the clones, now spread around the globe, to launch them and use their power to take out the governments of the world and take over himself, which he has done during his and the Hero Team's fight, he also reveals K' is a clone himself. Meanwhile Hiedern orders his soldiers to stop the impending Kyo invasion.
The ensuing battle between Krizalid and the Hero team goes badly, Shingo and Benimaru are knocked unconscious and K' and Maxima use the last of their strength in an unsuccessful final attack that while appears to knock Krizalid out, does not. As all appears lost and Krizalid readies to kill the four characters, they are saved by the return of the real Kyo Kusanagi who defeats Krizalid with his signature crimson flames. The characters are then addressed by a bright light and a strange omnipotent voice who scolds Krizalid for his failure and drops a bolder on him, trapping him and possibly killing him outfight, the voice reveals itself as the NESTS cartel then vanishes and the underground base begins to fall apart, K' attempt to fight Kyo is stopped as the Hero Team are shut off from Kyo by a steel door and the team flee. As the base continues to fall apart Kyo senses the presence of his old rival Iori Yagami and the two fight as the base falls down around them, both seemly enjoying the experience.
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