King of Fighters '98, the bestest!
Itâs the Dream Match that never ends! My favorite KoF, probably?
The cheekiness is that Neo-Geo releases are kind of only technically boxes, not something that anybody was likely to ever encounter in real life. The pool party image above was used ubiquitously in marketing material though (e.g. arcade posters), and so I figured it would still be familiar to some. Eventual home console re-releases seem to have used entirely different box art though.
I was part of a group who were buying those Neogeo cartridges â they were âonlyâ 2 to 3 times more expansive than other consoleâs games at the time, after all, and considering the amount of time spent playing amongst friends, were considered worth the investment. The artwork on almost all of them was gorgeous.
I understand the price for some of those games is now totally insane.
That art really screams slugfest, doesnât it?
Haha, Yeah, In Japan, it was subtitled âDream Match Never Endsâ, thus my post. Itâs a non-canon release year that didnât advance the overall KoF plot, and includes characters that had already died in the story line. So, the pool-party artwork represents the dreamlike nature.
My understanding is that they felt Americans didnât commonly use the term âDream Matchâ, so they changed it. (Alternately, they just changed it arbitrarily, because SNK).
What in the?! Played the whole series yearly till 2000; had no idea there were some pretention in storytelling behind the thing!
The KoF storylines generated some of my favorite âAll Your Baseâ-style engrish writing ever.
Rockyâs Boots? (footnote 1)
(footnote 1): ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES EVER MADE.
True story I never saw that cover; I played it on the Apple ][ and had a pirated version (sorry). I just saw the shapes and said PURPLE TRIANGLES I KNOW A GAME THAT HAS THAT.
I didnât either back then, because I discovered the game only about 10 years ago! But I thought it was really nice looking.
Same for me. Really fond memories of that game (and itâs big brother, Robot Odyssey). Iâm impressed that you nailed it just from the shapes, Peter!
Itâs not that surprising. As you may know from another forum, I am to programming games as @BrianRubin is to space games. (Do we have a programming game thread at qt3?)
Hah, you do you man. Those so ainât my bag, baby.
Start one!
Oh crap itâs my turn SORRY.
Will post next picture this evening if nobody guesses.