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"The King of Fighters" is a famous battle-type fighting arcade game released on the MVS game console in 1994 by the Japanese company SNK, referred to as "KOF", and is also a world-scale fighting competition held in the plot. name. It was originally a fighting competition held in South Town in the company's other two works, the "Hungry Wolf" series and "Fist of the Dragon and Tiger 2". "KOF" is the official abbreviation, taken from the first letter of each word.

The trademark is registered under the name of SNK Company. Mainland China and Hong Kong are known as the "King of Fighters". The officially recognized Chinese translation of the game is "King of Fighters" (it can be known from the SNK Playmore Hong Kong official website or some background text in some series). The name translated as "King of Fighting" in Taiwan comes from the translation of the original game console's move stickers.

Since 1994, there has been a tradition of releasing new works every year until 2003. After that, the orthodox sequels are no longer marked by years, and the release time of the sequels is uncertain. But basically there are new works published every year. Up to KOF2003, all works were developed using SNK's self-developed circuit board "MVS", and these works have been transplanted into the "NEO-GEO" game console that is interchangeable with the MVS circuit board.