When it comes to arcade games, every old player will definitely have their most impressive work in their hearts, in that era of arcade machines with a hundred flowers, fighting games are particularly popular, and some of them are still active in everyone's sight.
"Street Fighter" can be said to be the first time that most arcade players have been exposed to the fighting arcade game, and it is also the enlightenment work of many players. As the first arcade game to spread through the streets, Street Fighter won the attention of many people at that time with its smooth graphics and gorgeous fighting effects.
Because it is high enough, Street Fighter has also achieved its irreplaceable position in the fighting game, and many players will even call it the ancestor of fighting to express their love for this game. And because the popularity is high enough, the characters of Chunli, Long, Ken and other characters in the game have also become popular, and Capcom has also launched many derivative works such as movies and comics for his super IP, which also allow Street Fighter to maintain its own place in the game circle so far.
After Street Fighter quickly became popular, SNK was also inspired to launch another fighting game of equally good quality, King of Fighters, in 1994. Although the King of Fighters from 94 to 96 is not enough to be compared with the Street Fighter series, SNK quickly summarized the successful experience of its predecessors, and finally surpassed Street Fighter in 1997 and became a phenomenon-level game that once dominated the screen arcade.
After becoming a domestic top fighting game, the King of Fighters, like Street Fighter, has made many classic characters out of the game, and many characters such as Kusanagi Kyo, Hachijinan, Unknown Fire Dance, and Great Snake are still active in the two-dimensional and ACG circles, and I don't know that Fire Dance has even "guest starred" in the current phenomenon-level game work "Glory of the King" as a hero.
Although SNK has encountered many twists and turns in its development, the IP of King of Fighters has always been hot in China, and there are still a large number of players involved in the event of this game. However, in the timeline of arcade games for more than ten years, it is not that these two games have become the stars of the fighting category, and there are countless wonderful games behind them that have amazed our youth, of which "Super Wrestling Overlord" is a "short flower" that blooms smoothly in the gap between these two games.
"Super Wrestler" appeared at a very clever time, just a year earlier than "King of Fighters 94", and it was also the best time for "Street Fighter 2" to be no longer fresh, at this time" Super Wrestler King turned out to be a big surprise to the players at the time.
The rules for winning the game are simple, that is, knocking down an enemy and pressing it in the ring for three seconds so that he can't get up and win. This real ring rule, combined with some of the game's own interesting settings, such as the lower the character's health, the higher the difficulty of getting up, etc., made the game the first choice for players to go to the arcade at that time.
After that, although the King of Fighters series appeared as a dark horse, before 97 years, "Super Wrestling Overlord" still had a very high screen domination rate, as a battle fighting game that can pull teammates together, "Street Wrestling Overlord" also filled the gap in this genre at that time, allowing players to experience the fun of breaking through the level and relive the thrill of fighting games.
It is worth mentioning that there are many interesting Easter eggs in the game, such as the player who wears blue suspender pants is the mayor Haggar in Kombat Whirlwind, and Haggar's profession before becoming mayor was a wrestler. It's not hard to see Capcom's ambition to make a "fighting universe" either.
Unfortunately, before "Street Wrestler" ushered in its heyday, SNK's "King of Fighters 97" quickly swept through the main street machine halls across the country. In the face of constant pressure from the King of Fighters series, Capcom finally picked up Street Fighter to fight it, and Street Wrestler became a fleeting firework that dazzled the youth of a generation of players. I wonder which fighting game is the most perfect in your mind? Have you ever experienced Street Wrestler? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to interact oh ~
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