ART OF FIGHTING HISTORY - Street Fighter's WEIRD Half Brother!?

#ArtOfFighting #RetroGamingHistory #StreetFighterHistory
Today, Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history of Art of Fighting by SNK and whether or not it has a claim of being a sibling to Street Fighter.
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[@mrmacross]

I thought Dan Hibiki was more or less Robert Garcia's head on top of Ryo Sakazaki's body. Capcom had a lot of fun with this in some of their games. In Street Fighter Alpha 3, one of Dan's win quotes is, "I hate the art of fighting, but I wanna be the king of fighters." But by the best Dan/SNK reference is in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter. Dan's ending spoofs the Art of Fighting ending, when Dan's sister stops Dan from killing Cyber Akuma and says "Brother! Stop! Don't you know who he is? He's our..." The End.

[@conradojavier7547]

& Dan's Sister Returns as a Host in the Shop in SF5.

[@elbucho8867]

Roberts head, Ryo’s body and moves, and yuri’s personality

[@amirprog]

Video games would not be the same without SNK. A big part of my video games childhood.

[@mursaleensaleem1806]

Same

[@realamericannegro977]

They did so many things before everybody else.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

I loved how SNK tried to make their fighting games more story heavy, that was something most fighting games didn't care about until MK VS DC Universe

[@ameernurhaqeem9738]

Now kof 15 is under development now we will see what happen to shun ei again

[@mmf0002]

Could not agree more. And that is one of the main reasons I love SNK games. They had so much character and depth with a lot of lore that you could sink into. And they just built on it with each game. Every fighting game they had made exist in the same universe. Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Last Blade, Savage Reign, Samurai Showdown , Street Smart, KOF, etc. So they out-marveled marvel at the time. And I love them for that. Too bad not a lot of people know this cool thing about SNK. It was such an unappreciated inovater in video games.

[@batsutetwitch2739]

Yea that’s called Street Fighter Alpha

[@SpinDoctor91]

I also loved SNK's character designs. They took way more risk. And I agree SNK started the more substance on the story fighting game and many other trends.

[@alltheworldsastage4785]

Until Mortal Kombat vs DCUniverse? Laughs in Tekken.

[@IrishKyokushin]

Art of Fighting is criminally under rated and under appreciated. It introduced elements that have become staples in Fighting Games [Story Telling and the Super attacks] I hope I live long enough to see an AOF 4.

[@camokazi1313]

I remember Dan's ending in Marvel vs. Street Fighter poked fun at Art of Fighting's ending.

[@SpinDoctor91]

Dan is basically Ryo and Robert fused LOL

[@TheRealJPhillips]

mr. karate 1st appeared as PLAYER 1 in a game called STREET SMART by SNK

[@khaimk4r4su]

A fighting game that was played as a beat-em-up. It was quite hard

[@AirLancer]

The player character in Street Smart looks kinda like Takuma, but wasn't named in the game or in promo materials. The only time he did get a name was in the Genesis port, and there he's called Tsutomu Amano.

[@lilrogersthetaskmaster201]

Snk neither confirmed or denied that he's takuma. But if you real snk you thats takuma . The other guy is said to be Jeff bogard

[@beekarinsaan]

Street was a coin eater. 😂🤣😂🤣

[@tec5x5]

I love Yuri's story arc from damsel in distressed/kidnapped victim to someone NO ONE would dare tangle with

[@kadosho02]

I know. Right? How many characters receive such a level of growth? I love how they composed Yuri's personality then to now.

[@KasumiRINA]

They kinda immediately set the tone for female characters with King, and didn't screw it up with Yuri, or, well, Kasumi. :3

[@bagsikdangal]

I love how her fighting style says Kyoko Genryu with a dash of Yuri's, and over the years, made a mockery of Street Fighter's super moves. Especially in KOF2001, were Yuri has a raging demon😂

[@elbucho8867]

Yuri is proto Sakura

[@blackout1524]

MR. KARATE She copies Ryu so you're not wrong

[@AntonioRodriguezSilver]

That scaling feature really mesmerized me at the time. It looked amazing! I also really liked that bonus rounds would increase the health bar and teach the super move. The sound effects were great, with every hit sounding really painful. The whole spirit gauge thing was annoying at first, but it's not so bad once you get used to it. The whole Fatal Fury connection made it interesting, and the inclusion of a Latin character made me an eternal fan. Robert García was extremely beloved in all the games he appeared within my gaming group.

[@Robin-ie3ns]

The animation in AoF 3 is ridiculously good. Looks so crisp even now. [might be worth a video. One of the first motion captured fighters I think]

[@realamericannegro977]

In my opinion that's what held it back. If it was done like Mark of the Wolves it would have been more fun.

[@arsenalxa4421]

Fun fact, the carrier John Crawley is assigned to is the USS Independence. I thought it was a neat background note. He's noted to be a Corporal according to his ending in AoF 2. I'm guessing there was an NJP involved.

[@KidNato]

Wow, can't wait to find out who Mr. Karate really is! Guess I am just going to go watch The Empire Strikes Back while I wait.

[@Jimalcoatl]

@@trollerblade1011 No, he's Lando.

[@khaliphileskosana4536]

Spoiler alert its a stormtrooper

[@CurtisHoareau]

.. anyone remember "world heroes".. was about the same time as AOF

[@ameernurhaqeem9738]

Its snk game back in the day snk make alot of fighting game and other game

[@Bloodreign1]

World Heroes was created by ADK though, and not SNK, but did appear on the Neo Geo hardware for 4 games. SNK eventually did buy ADK out though.

[@Invidente7]

Art of Figthing's presentation was increible for the time, and also the animé adaptation stands out for being Ayumi Hamazaki's only voice role in animé.

[@DiscoJoseph]

My favorite KZbin series!! Always look forward to these videos.

[@zeherbh2632]

Top Hat Gaming Man You forgot to mention wall jump

[@blackoozaru1916]

i had this game when i was young, the SNES port, the guy from the store sold me with this argument: he got the cartuche box, and at the back it had a screenshot of Robert performing a Hawoh-ken and then said "do you like street fighter because of the hadouken right? look the size of the hadouken they do in this game!", my 5yo version thought that was enough of a reason to get tha game and i did. HUAHEUHUHEa

[@bagsikdangal]

Actually, SNK was the first to make fun of Capcom's Street Fighter. In King Of Fighters 94, if you manage to reach Rugal Bernstein, he will reveal his gruesome collection of fighters that he *"defeated"* and made statues of, in the dialogue cutscene. In those metal statues, there's a statue of Ryu,Guile and Akuma. Dan was a somewhat retaliation to this. And in Capcom Vs SNK, there's a special interaction between Rugal and Guile. The special interaction has Guile doing his sonic boom on his statue, damaging it. Rugal then does his reppuken, completely destroying the statue.

[@adrenalinex4]

bagsikdangal awesome info

[@geekdaparaiba]

@snkrules Man, your English is awful.

[@elbucho8867]

Yuri adapts and learn other fighters moves such as Ryu, Terry and akuma and has taken Makoto’s intro animation as well.

[@blackout1524]

People always think Capcom started the beef when it was SNK who started it with AOF, then AOF2, then KOF'94. All before 1995 where SFA dropped. xD

[@IrishKyokushin]

Capcom made Street Fighter 1. Many of the people who made SF1 later on went to SNK where they made Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting,etc.

[@IanVersusDaddybones]

Final fight was never ever known as Street Fighter 2. If anything it was Street Fighter 89

[@joaocarvalhos]

Actually in AoF you CAN use desperation moves (ryuko ranbo) if you are with very low health and have the full spirit bar. Probably one of the first games to have this feature.

[@sarlaccstapeworm990]

Dude,, you just took me waaaayy back to almost 40 years ago!! We had MOST of these at our local arcade "Take Ten", throughout most of the 80's & 90's. But I probably wouldn't have even thought about those days agan, had I not seen this video!! 👍💯

[@stanbatakarata6081]

My too.i,m for 43 years from Bulgaria I steep for first time I'm gamer toom in 1993-1994 my 3th Arcade game 🕹 .First ist Rampage and second Kung of Dragons 3th is arth of Finght .For Desperacion movie code i give 2 time for one Big boy and your girlfrend cinema ticket 🎟 😀 but it's worth it,s rolled game after 2-3 weeks 😀

[@GreatChicken2]

"Soon, all will know Todo! No, not the dog!" - Todo's daughter Kasumi in KOF96

[@MatMadikGCA]

Awesome stuff, sir 🎩! It would be awesome to meet you one day.

[@orlanzo2621]

I've always respected AOF for the innovations it brought to the genre (dashing, super moves, character damage etc) it doesn't get the credit it deserves in that regard....however i've honestly never that big on the series gameplay wise. It was always too stiff and clunky and the "spirit gauge" restricting your use of special moves hurt it too. A damn shame tho because i always liked the graphics, music, and presentation of the series, but overall it doesn't hold up nearly as well as other classic SNK series like Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, or KOF. Tho i will say AOF 3 actually had excellent animations, too bad the game felt so "off" and weird to play. It felt very "slippery" like the fighters were sliding across the stage.

[@kokujin-r7254]

Art of fighting 2 was a significantly better game in my opinion but it still couldn't hold up to Samurai Shodown at that point. I thoroughly enjoyed the second one though

[@orlanzo2621]

@@kokujin-r7254 I agree, AOF2 is my favorite in the series overall. I think it would have honestly been one of my favorite fighting games at the time if it was just faster, more fluid, and they ditched the spirit gauge thing. I loved everything else about that game.

[@Rei_Tatekei]

Yea, and Capcom stole the idea for SF3 from AOF3.

[@orlanzo2621]

@@Rei_Tatekei Yep! Man i've been saying that exact thing for years. It's funny because people say SNK stole from Capcom with Garou but there was AOF3 before SF3.

[@kokujin-r7254]

@@Rei_Tatekei I know alot of people like to say Capcom stole from snk but alot of those programmers were friends. They would actually talk about what they could do to improve each other's games. It wasn't as malicious as people thought it was

[@harrymasonsm]

Art of Fighting is the redheaded half brother who gets all the abuse from the rest of the family and then starts walking down odd paths(mostly thinking of you AOF3).

[@wutangrzaable]

Love your videos brother!!...the nostalgia comes to me hard when I watch these things!! I would like to see you do vids on the World Heroes series!!

[@protagonist52]

rival schools, strider, and saturday night slam masters

[@sladejosephwilson2300]

I like the first game despite its stuff controls. The 2nd game is my favorite even though the ai is bs. I need to play more of 3rd game

[@AlexHand]

When I was about 6 (1994) the Round Table Pizza by my house had this game. After spending all my parents' quarters on it every time we went, they got it for me on SEGA Genesis. The characters seemed totally ridiculous to me, even compared to Street Fighter, but I loved it and it'll always be the pizza game to me.

[@fitnessabcvideo]

Nailing it. You're on point. Keep this up, 100 k soon.

[@elel.]

I had this game in genesis and I played a lot in arcades.I beat both of them with one credit. It was somehow hard and unfair.

[@mmf0002]

Me too. My brothers and I loved it on my Mega drive. We'd play yet a lot. The story got me hooked and made me replay it a million times times thinking there is some sort of secret ending. Good times

[@joshualowe959]

Street Fighter & King of Fighters have always been brothers

[@anasevi9456]

Art of Fighting was one of my favourites despite the sometimes maligned zoom effect.

[@pflynn12]

Great video but I think you should try your hand at fighting layer

[@sunwukong7567]

5:25 That Mr Big's identity was Frankie Lideo. And got turned into stardust by Mecha Jackson turned into a massive battle spaceship.

[@heavysystemsinc.]

Also Art of Fighting 3 is goddamned amazing. Best Neo Geo fighting game animation, bar none. The animation is better than it's direct rival, Street Fighter 3.

[@fabiojuniooliveira6862]

I like AoF 3 too

[@elbucho8867]

Rotoscoped like Elena

[@sladejosephwilson2300]

Thanks for the video man. I appreciate. I hope to see more from this series as well

[@digispeak0]

Hats off (pun intended) to you for putting out so many quality videos so quickly! We see the effort and appreciate it!

[@Stylez-13]

I like the first one but fatal fury special was my favorite

[@chadbrick67]

Fury

[@yoman8027]

At this point I'm pretty sure you read Ryu as "rai-uh" on purpose.

[@RevengerPhoenix]

Yo Man that’s the recurring joke that 90% of people don’t seem to get

[@elbucho8867]

RYU, pronouncing it has its spelled unlike saying “Ree-uu”

[@yoman8027]

@@RevengerPhoenix This video proved it to me when he read Ryo's name correctly.

[@JDDK28]

Yes! One of my favorite fighting games of all time. I used to speed run this on all difficulty settings. Definitely a classic!

[@OddballEddie]

I find that Art of Fighting is deeply underrated of the contributions it brought to fighting games. The super special moves is an obvious one, I'd really like to see SNK re-visit this franchise someday. Also seeing the game it reminds me how when it came out there were tons of people in the arcade trying to beat it or going at it in versus mode. Both Aof1 and MK1 were really hard to play since there was always a bunch of people on the machines. Anyway, nice job on the video, you covered the topic really well.

[@Sin606]

I love this video and series soooooo much! I always kinda liked AoF because of how different it was. A lot of innovations from this small series effected the genre forever.

[@SymbianBlack]

Art of fighting 2!!!!! The culture NEEDS it from you TOP HAT

[@plasmahdtv]

AOF is legendary, When I first played it I was blown away by the visuals and sound quality, huge sprites. SNK games need to be gamed on proper SNK hardware, no conversions etc, MVS or AES

[@mrchaotiq]

I remember my friends and I playing this as often as we could as 12 years olds in New Zealand. We had a fish and chip shop near us that had this game in it, it was the only AOF cabinet in the entire city. We would spend hours upon hours playing it and trying to master all the moves. An older kid came in one day and did Robert's supermove and rapidly mashed the buttons as Robert was doing the combo, we were then given a false button combination of how to do it haha. As young, naive kids it took about 3 months to click that we had been duped Lmao, good times.

[@Pupppeteer]

I honestly have never heard of this game I love learning new stuff on this channel.

[@zenbyo]

John from Art of Fighting 1 still has one of the coolest themes in Fighting Games.

[@MostlyCloudy19]

Please, please, please do Fighters' History!

[@daviddefortier5970]

Back in the day, this game captivated me in the arcades. It absolutely towered over everything i had ever seen before. Massive! Sprites that made street fighter 2 characters seem like dwarves, and that zoom effect was highly captivating. The music and quality of the sound... Just everything made me feel highly privelaged to play this work of art!! However, it was hard as balls! This game made my parents bankrupt. Gameplay does feel clunky and tight, so its far from perfect, but damn! The nostalga is high

[@SuperArmus]

I still own this and AOF2. I always loved the sound in both games. Specially when players get hit by the giant hadouken

[@IrishKyokushin]

I love the AOF sound effects. Especially when they get hit by a heavy attack/special attack. It really gives that sense of power to the attacks.

[@thenerdyanarchist3492]

1:57 Did Sagat just throw a smiley

[@Ttw1976]

First fatal Fury did have special moves but no power bar

[@luisreyes1963]

Good story about Art Of Fighting. How about looking into Global Champion next?

[@rocketdive2001]

You forgot to mention that the SnES or SFC version also had desperation moves for ALL characters - something you also forgot to mention that this was the first game ever to introduce the idea of Desperation moves into the fighting games universe. The hint for all the different character’s desperation moves for the snes/sfc version are found after you beat the game at varying difficulties - easiest level will show Ryo/Robert/Mr Karate’s one, next level up is Todo and follows up to the Hardest mode which reveals Mr Big’s desperation move (lame but damaging). The SNes/sfc stood out for having that extra thrown in, great for 2 player local fights! Gawd i loved John Crowley’s desperation move! Go try it!!

[@richterbelmont3963]

Good thing you mentioned Dan. I'm sure most people don't know he was designed to make fun of AoF's Ryo and Robert.

[@mmf0002]

The stories that the games made by SNK are so good. that is one of the main reasons I love SNK games. They had great characters with their own interesting backstories and motivations. there was so much in depth lore that makes you love the characters even if the game wasn't as good. SNK took that basic blocks from the 1st Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting then went on to build on them with each upcoming sequel making their story more grandiose and intertwined. The same for every other game that came after. Every SNK fighter they had made exist in the same universe albeit in different time periods (except for KOF that kind of exists in its own pocket universe). Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Last Blade, Savage Reign, Samurai Showdown , Street Smart, KOF, etc. SNK out-marveled marvel before a shared universe was a thing. Too bad not a lot of people (especially in the west) know about SNK and how innovator and ahead of their time they were. just look at Terry's reveal on Smash Bros and how confused many people were about who he was. I'm glad that more famous youtubers like Top Hat Gaming Man and Maximillian Dude are shedding some light on this legendary company. (copied from the Fatal Fury video so more people can read my thoughts about the SNK games)

[@piyakhebisonii1001]

I love SNK fighting games! Fatal Fury is my favorite fighting series of ALL time! Keep up the good work!👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿

[@madspunky]

I know it's a rather new game, but I love love love Fantasy Strike. I think it deserves so much more recognition! Great online play, easy to learn, difficult to master, on all current systems, etc.

[@sukmykrok3388]

What I love about the SNES version of this game is that in 2 player mode you're able to use all the characters and they all get a Final Death Blow!

[@shuruff904]

I love TopHatGaming!!!! So much nostalgia!!! 😘

[@heavysystemsinc.]

Okay as an Art of Fighting fan, I gotta say, button 3 is NOT a throw. it DOES perform a throw with conjunction to a direction while being near an opponent, but it works as a 'hard strike' as well. In all games. So you have Punch, Kick, Hard Strike/Throw. Art of Fighting does encourage use of multiple button presses to do 'deeper techniques' in all of the games.

[@heavysystemsinc.]

also the music in SNES version is better than the Neo Geo version.

[@khamoflagetv]

One fun fact about AOF, that Ryo Sakazaki design was inspired by Patrick Swayze. Can you say Roadhouse (Roundhouse).

[@ohdaUtube]

I think it's really funny how you do a halfway decent job pronouncing Ryo's name (Lio, kind of like Yo but placing the tongue at the top of your mouth in the beginning in the L placement going right into Yo) but pronounce the Ry part of Ryu completely differently. Hahaha! Hot oil wins!

[@mikeychainsaw9760]

Art of fighting is one of the hardest fighting games.

[@fabiojuniooliveira6862]

Mr Karate from SvC-Chaos and KoF XIII

[@elbucho8867]

👺

[@boonboy8333]

Unfortunately SNK got caught by the 3d gimmick wave and that's when all the fun stopped, they should have stood their ground and developed a 1080p version of their console and kept 2d alive and kicking.

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

Yeah I know, I did a video on the failure of the Hyper Neo Geo 64.

[@T23-u5x]

Thank you for all of your content man! It’s great all of the time but even more so in this time. God bless and stay well! ✌🏾

[@roberthornibrook6344]

If you like the pc engine version of this game, the ports of Fatal Fury 2 and Special are a sight to behold as well. Very close to the Neo Geo.

[@2CVSUPERGT]

Very intesting video, thank you. Made to concurrence SF2, AOF introduced Zoom, Spirit power gauge, face modification, tired stand when character's health come under 30%, giant fireball (haoshokoken) and ultimate attack (kyokugenryuogi), possibility of multiple kick/punch while one jump, oponent may receive hit after KO or after hitted while a jump, KO from a very little punch don't make character jump back, character cry their rage even it's still not the final hit, final hit have its special sound FX (feel like a punch knocking your head), multiple hit attack make oponent flying (zanretsu ken "1000punch" inspired from hokuto's hyakurestuken "100punch"), characters feel more credible and less folkoric than SF2, global ambient too (music & background scene), colorimetry si a good balance between realistic and easy to watch . Character design made by guy comming from Capcom is sometimes said as the real face that SF2 should show. Unfortunately, SNK was hurry and time developement too short (as often), animation frame, character balance, limited story mode (even it's more intense) and SNK's game difficulty (a wall for beginners) make this game underrated. AOF 2 was good balanced but it lost this feeling of surrealistic violence that AOF 1 has and new characters looks folkloric, then AOF 3 is quite different, smaller sprite size, manga colorimetry design, no face modification, surrealism feeling from AOF 1 is lost forever. Then SNK lost interest for this franchise. Half of the bar raised by AOF 1 was forgotten and are still not used on today's fighting games. I have no hope for a AOF4, cause we do not need AOF franchise, we need about spirit of AOF1, so if talent and smart developper may reproduce this feeling and think how to improve it, it's okay to me.

[@konstantinkoverchenko9587]

I like how Fatal Fury, Street Smart and The Art of Pooping tie in together. Without The Art of Fighting, there would be no Dan. >_

[@mikeychainsaw9760]

Ryo & Robert are much older then Terry & Andy Bogard. Art of Fighting 2 final boss is a young Geese Howard, if anybody watch the anima films you see a young Terry & Andy as kids when they father Jeff Bogard get killed by a young Geese Howard. [Art of Fighting & Fatal Fury] takes place in south town

[@randombarbarian5637]

I remember King the piano-man!..Venom Strike!

[@Johansmithgamboacr]

So many info is missing, and lot is mistaken, Ryo is not based on Ryu (pronounced リュウ, Hepburn: Ryū not Raiu) he is based on Goku and Kenshiro, SNK pitched a Hokuto no ken Game, and it was rejected(HENCE THE NAME RYUUKU NO KEN) They kept some of the moves, like the Zanretsuken, And the GI is same as Goku, and thats the reason why you can charge KI. It had nothing to do with Ryu, then they added the Kohou, to match Shotokhan characters. You also missed that Todoh is based on Soun Tendou. You found that info on Wikipedia, but just like Jordan Peterson said: READ MORE Still you have my like and subscription, for doing your part with this video!

[@Cyulyk01]

5:40 a video about the mad history behind Michael Jackson and Sega gaming patnership? Yes, please!

[@taz9573]

Art of fighting 2 is my all time favourite SNK game AND favourite 2D 1vs1 fighting game ever. It never got it's recognition I suspect because the difficulty when playing the story mode was too hard...or once you figured out each enemy's tactic, too easy. Story mode in no way whatsoever allowed you to uncover just how deep the gameplay was but having spent hundred's of hours in vs games I found this game (AOF2) was ahead of the competition on all fronts.

[@chocolocojames213]

I always picture you stroking a hairless cat during your intro. Great video as always 😁😁😁

[@beekarinsaan]

Ryu was pretty slow when it came to countering. Especially absorbing the super death blow. You'd have to sit and punch to have any chance of not getting hit by the death blow. In Robert's case you could just kick in the air and it would knock out the blow. Almost the same applied to not getting hit by the desperation move.

[@maxmatson1578]

For any Nintendo switch owners, They have arcade perfect ports of art of fighting 1 and 2 on Nintendo eShop. I got part 2 last month. Hoping they install part 3?

[@MastersOfMask]

Part 3 is not as great as the 1st or 2nd.

[@workingorder2189]

King was inspired by Dutch muay thai fighter Saskia Van Rijswijk from the movie China White.

[@weitsungsoo3629]

I have always preferred aof, fatal fury and kof over Street fighter series.

[@Adam-ui3ot]

Wei Tsung Soo why

[@sarkasmdaimyo2572]

Now I get all the in-house cloning played out in all the games to date because it played out in real life in terms of the company staff flitting between SNK & Capcom.

[@chadbrick67]

No ryo that's our father

[@TheRealDustinNunn]

You should cover Dragon Ball FighterZ. It's a pretty cool Marvel vs Capcom clone.

[@davidolivier1983]

Thanks for this video! I love the trilogy Art of fighting! Unfortunately many people forgot about this serie!

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

What is that Fighting game that plays like Street Fighter III Strike?

[@ibblue0710]

@Mr. Check Yourself I assume you’re referring to Garou: Mark of the Wolves?

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

@@ibblue0710 No it played like the SF 3 series

[@hardfocus7332]

Martial Masters?

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

@@hardfocus7332 YES!

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. You should do a video of Art of Fighting 2! This sequel to Art of Fighting marks the first time you play as Yuri.

[@IrishKyokushin]

and Takuma as well. This is his official debut as a fighter [thought whether you count Karate Man in Street Smart or his somewhat playable version of Mr. Karate in the first.]

[@mamamoolover2534]

Art of fighting 3 was my first fighting game

[@gungriffen]

Have you ever thought about doing videos about specific characters like Terry Bogard, Chun-Li, or Geese?

[@thaistomp]

Mickey was inspired by the actor/boxer Mickey Rourke.

[@josephespitia5084]

It's crazy that the music on the snes port was better than arcade.

[@daviddefortier5970]

Um... No!

[@classicgameplay10]

Some people claim that SNk just copy capcom. But think about the inovations that AOf had that pretty much ALL fighting games have today: Special bars, taunts, DMS, ryuuko rambu style special attacks that pretty much is copied not only in fighting games but all sort of genres.

[@conradojavier7547]

Plus The Makers of SNK's Early Fighting Games is the 90's Equivilent of a Bloodstain or Mighty No. 9.

[@pj_mars9791]

Mr. Top-hat you should do one about Canon Spite and plasma swords you should cover those two stories

[@Entropy3ko]

Cooler and better looking brother. Also props to SNK for not releasing the same game with just minor changes 20 times

[@MagnoliaSupreme]

Saturday Night Slam Masters would be a great game to do a review for on.

[@alexanderthomson7993]

Helloooo ladies and gentlemen, BIG DADDY top hat here

[@wasco1989]

Yay. He said Biiiigggggg Dadddddy Top Hat Man

[@100mesmerized9]

Go over Justice League Task Force

[@areasevenpro]

I always thought King was modeled after Cynthia Rothrock.

[@KenMasters.]

King was also primarily inspired and modeled after Jamaican singer, Grace Jones who speaks Jamaican, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian and French. King also speaks these languages, but is a Frenchwoman. During the concept stage they took additional inspiration from another suit-wearing henchwoman in the Hong Kong action crime film China White, performed by Muay Thai fighting, action-stuntwoman, Saskia Van Rijswijk who is a Dutch actress.

[@ShinParisu]

So this is just trolling he pronounces Ryo the right way but he says Ryu as he bloody pleases. This is one of our fave gaming youtubers ladies and gentlemen XD

[@Windowlesswhitevan]

I love that the character named King was a girl as a kid