In fact, many years ago we understood that everything is the same, and there is no progress without competition.
The same is true of the game industry, when CAPCOM has been eating old books for many years after the launch of "Street Fighter 2", one moment is "Street Fighter 2' TURBO", the next is "Super Street Fighter", the next is "Super Street Fighter 2X"... That's right, each version has a different system and gameplay, and new characters have been added to make it feel like a new game.
Although each version is of high quality, we can clearly feel that this is eating the old book! This also made the popularity of "Street Fighter 2" slowly decrease.
Why did CAPCOM dare to do this?
The absence of opponents is the main reason! Can you find a game of the same year that compares? Only "Legend of the Hungry Wolf" can barely fight.
Later, SNK also felt that this routine was feasible, so after the release of "The King of Fighters 94", a "new version" was released every year, so there were 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000... But it is clear that the modeling of characters before King of Fighters 11 has basically not changed.
Each new version only needs to add new stories, gameplay, characters and skills, which is a new version. Almost all players are buying it! Push production costs to the extreme.
The games developed by CAPCOM are often ahead of the times and relatively high-end; The production cost of SNK's games is not very high, but it is very close to the people.
It is estimated that everyone is more curious, in the era of competition in the arcade field, who is "the best in the game"?
"Fury" in '86 and Red Dead Redemption in '87
"Fury" created a trilogy here, which appeared on many platforms at that time, and its popularity was relatively high, and even the protagonist in it became a character in "The King of Fighters";
Red Dead Redemption was also popular at the time. But now the Red Dead Redemption we found through our search are all that near-perfect triple-A masterpiece. This game has nothing to do with arcades and fc, and is a game created by CAPCOM after the rights were sold to R stars after the rights were released on the PS2 platform "Red Death Revolver".
But R Star's Red Dead Redemption is indeed derived from CAPCOM.
In '87, CAPCOM's "Mega Man" and SNK's "Iron Bullet Tank" met on the FC platform
Both games are the best of the best, but obviously "Mega Man" has more influence, after all, so many sequels have been released, and even a separate metaverse has been formed.
'88 "Escape from Prison" and "Great Demon World Village"
Both games have once occupied the C position in various arcades!
The gameplay of "Prison Break" is relatively simple, and there is a blood volume, and the fatality rate is not so high;
"Great Demon World Village" inherits the difficulty of the Demon World Village, and it is still a burst of armor when touched, and death if it is touched again.
However, when we measure it years later, we will find that the influence of the "Demon Village" series seems to be higher.
In addition, CAPCOM's "Lost World" released in 88 has almost no rivals in the field of shooting games. After all, this game has a quality that is ahead of its time, and it is hard for players today to imagine that this quality is from 88!
87 Street Fighter and 89 Street Kombat
After the release of "Street Fighter 1", SNK couldn't sit still and immediately launched a battle game called "Street Kombat". The protagonist of the game is the later famous Takuma Sakasaki prototype.
As for the popularity of the two games! One that everyone knows, and one that no one knows
In '89, CAPCOM went it alone and released "Attack on the Dragon" and "Kombat Whirlwind"
In order to follow the trend, SNK created a puzzle game called "Blood Kombat". It is a pity that the release time has reached 91, and the main opponents at this time are "Master" and "Knights of the Round Table".
90 years of SNK "NAM-1975", CAPCOM "Double Qi'er"
The influence of the two games is similar, it depends on which game players contact first. In general, the most seen was SNK "NAM-1975", which was a lively game in the arcade.
At this time, the NEOGEO substrate was paired with the CPS1 substrate, which could be said to be comparable at that time. SNK's "idea of bringing arcades home" has dominated for a long time.
In 91, fighting games ushered in the birth of "Hungry Wolf Legend 1" and "Street Fighter 2"
It is estimated that the friends are unbelievable! Both games were released in the same year! How could it be so coincidental? Does SNK know that CAPCOM will make a big move in the fighting game market, and then release "Hungry Wolf Legend" to compete?
That's because the father of Street Fighter and the father of Hungry Wolf Legend are the same person: Takashi Nishiyama.
It was precisely because of the incompatibility of creative concepts that Takashi Nishiyama left CAPCOM and joined SNK after the original completion of Street Fighter. On SNK's side, Takashi Nishiyama's talent was perfectly utilized, and SNK's fighting game director, and the classics we played were released through his hands.
Those ideas of Takashi Nishiyama were eventually realized in SNK's "Legend of the Hungry Wolf".
At that time, on the console platform, although "Street Fighter" was popular, "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" was not a waste, sales have been closely chasing, and at some stage it has achieved a counterattack.
After the failure of "Legend of the Hungry Wolf" 3D, it went to a strange road, which is a pity!
In 91, SNK "Mecha Divine Soldier", CAPCOM's "Famous General"
Compared to the previous works, the art style of both games has been greatly improved. The gameplay of clear-cut games such as "Famous General" seems to be more deeply rooted in people's hearts, as long as the hand speed is fast, it is still no problem to mix up a level. And on the side of "Mecha Divine Soldier", I don't know what happened when I was beaten a lot of times.
After that, the clearance game began to break out, and SNK's side was obviously powerless.
'93 "Battle Legacy 2" versus "Dinosaur Kombat"
By the time the later Alien vs. Predator, Dungeons & Dragons and Battle Circuit were released, there were no rivals in the entire arcade world.
In 92, "Street Fighter 2 Four Heavenly Kings" against "Fist of Dragon and Tiger"
After that, it was "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf", "Fist of the Dragon and Tiger", "World Heroes", "Samurai Shodown" and "Apocalypse of the Storm" to join forces to attack the enhanced, revised, integrated and ported version of "Street Fighter".
The whole process is quite tragic! However, at that time, the SNK game console had a high shelf rate.
It is estimated that everyone is curious about what game CAPCOM is aimed at after the release of "The King of Fighters"?
Before that, SNK had basically choked Street Fighter 2.
The pressure on SNK in '94 was unprecedented, and CAPCOM released two game universe units, "Demon Warrior" and "Comic Hero", which represents the era of CPS2.
"The King of Fighters 94" and "Samurai Shodown" were released in this atmosphere, shouldering SNK's last hope. Fortunately, the two games were successful in one fell swoop, and won extremely high sales at that time, and the two game big IPs successfully arrived.
In 95, "Hungry Wolf Legend 3" was originally an important capital for the series to turn over the battle, but the command was designed to be anti-human. Led to being caught between "Shōnen Street Fighter" and "Demon Hunter". Fortunately, "The King of Fighters 95" turned the tide. In the same year, "Samurai Shodown 3" and "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" faced "Comic Heroes" and successfully blocked the enemy's reinforcements.
Although SNK did not win, it was not ugly to lose!
In 96, SNK's "Apocalypse", "Fist of the Dragon and Tiger 3", "The King of Fighters 96" and "Samurai Shodown 4" successfully pinched the "Comic Heroes vs. Card Popularization", but it was turned around by "Shōnen Street Fighter 2", and finally the two sides were beaten apart.
97 years are destined to be a restless year.
This year, the miracle "The King of Fighters 97" from "The King of Fighters" was born, and in order to create momentum, "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf 2" appeared at the same time, with the momentum of swallowing the world. Their opponents are Demon Savior and Street Fighter 3.1.
Who can come out on top in this game battle that affects the world pattern?
Some people say that "Street Fighter 3" won, and others say that "The King of Fighters 97" won a big victory.
In different countries, the answer is different.
We'll find out years later: whatever the impact of these games around the world doesn't seem to be relevant to us. In addition to leisure, the game that occasionally wants to experience, it is the real No.1 in our minds.
That's right, only the player is the real winner in the end!