Good read on the KOF stuff. I was curious about some of this stuff myself.
Pretty sure it has something to do with all the fabulous hair cuts in that game.
Unfortunately i haven’t seen anyone that plays the game now, it had a good group of players back in 1999 :D, i always sucked in that game lol my mains were Rosa and Hayate, it would be cool to see them on another crossover, although Hayate was a playable character on KOF XI (and really fun to use).
You can find the videos in the KOF forum here i think (with flamewar included)
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Yes, is popular, but not as 98/2k2, still has a big scene. About the accesibility of those games, in my city (Santiago) there are two BIG arcade centers who still buys new Arcade machines so yeah, you can play KOFXIII on a real Type-X2 machine (…really, they were there before the “hack” thing).
SamSho was pretty popular in the 90s, now just a few people still plays it. Breakers was in some arcades, in fact i played a lot of Breakers Revenge here.
There are some games in Chile who are extremely popular and are obscure in USA, for example, the first two Power Instinct were HUGE in the 90s here.
You guys need to start streaming your huge tournaments for niche games. I’d totally stream-monster that.
(Get an English speaker to commentate, though)
In fact we stream a lot of shit! of course i never comment this here in SRK because well, i didn’t know people are interested.
You don’t know anything about anything. The best kof13 Japanese players dropped (or stopped caring about) the game long ago, after the console release. That recent Japanese tourney with RF and Haitani didn’t have any of those top players in there whatsoever except maybe Oeppa.
The Japanese play from players like Dune, Haregoro, Oogosho, Sukoa, Hiroto, etc is the benchmark for kof13 play.
You should make the streams more English (aka worldwide) friendly, then start publishing them.
SNK games are more popular in general in a lot of places because the cabinet cost plus cost of game carts is mega cheap. You can get a 4 slot MVS cabinet and 4 basic wanted games (Metal Slug something, Samurai Shodown something, KOF something, and a comedy option game, probably Puzzle Bobble) for cheaper than the going rate on something like a Midway cabinet. Same with old Street Fighter 2 cabs, old HF and CE boards are dirty cheap, and easy to bootleg as well.
A credit for a mexican pirated KOF arcade cabinet is around 10 US cents or 1 peso.
Even kids can pwn you if you’re not careful.
Although, I’d say that the culture was very affected by those fucking cabinets with infinite meters…
ducking bullets improves reactionary skills.
my innocent nature.
She, i hear, was a really strong character in vanilla 2002, but she had corner infinite juggle that got fixed in tougeki version. maybe thats why everyone used her. back then in original 2k2. but i don’t think anyone was allowed to use it in tourneys. not sure. i think vnessa had one too. also a banned move.
i’m the only spic that doesn’t. my dumb luck.
i coulda sworn i’ve said the exact same thing once before.
great minds think alike.
our maybe you’re my long lost gemelo
also,
no vids?
wuts up?
how can you cats not put up any sorta vid of mex compition?
shame on ya.
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None of those infinites are banned in any tournaments that I’ve heard about, whether Mexican, South American or Asian.
KoF characters can run fast and have varied forms of jumps. Good skills for getting past the border.
/trollmode
lmao
It wouldn’t hurt, but I’ll watch KOF and UMK3 in Spanish alllllllll day if I have to. Gotta put all those classes to use somehow ahahaha
tekkeno faighter
I still remember my mind being blown at how KOF was everywhere when I would spend my summers in mexico
Just to dispel (for the 100th time) this common myth: KOF didn’t get popular in South America due to bootlegging. Bootlegs started appearing en masse roughly around 2001-2002. The games were already the most popular fighting games long before that. And there were lots of CPS-2 cabs too, and things like Third Strike or MvC 2 weren’t really uncommon, it’s not like KOF is all there was over here. Besides, if costs were a factor a lot of SNK games would be popular but people only cared about KOF, and Metal Slug to a much lesser extent. The people just liked KOF, that’s all. Just like MvC2 was huge in the States and VF is in Japan.
MK used to be hugely popular before the KOF craze too but for some reason most non-South Americans don’t wonder about that as much as for KOF’s popularity.
Hi everyone, this is my first post on this forums.
Anyway, i remember the first time i saw Street Fighter 2 on the Arcades here in Mexico, it was by far the most popular game in every Arcade, people made lines to play it…and it was quite popular for a while, in a way the mexican scene was born with that game and we began to play everything, from Fatal Fury 2 to Mortal Kombat, however never again i saw such a popular game like SF2…until KOF arrived, and it wasn’t even 94, i mean that game was really popular but it wasn’t until we got KOF96 that the series became insanely popular, just like in the old SF2 days, there were lines of people wanting to play KOF96 and i believe that the quality of the game had a major impact…sure, nowadays we know how far from perfect the game really is, but back in the days it was quite something, i mean, the new characters, the fast peaced gameplay, the insanely hard boss not to mention most of the Arcades had this really big monitor with speakers at it sides so the atmosphere was amazing, and just like that, the popularity of the rest of the big games went down, sure we played DarkStalker, Samurai Shodown, Mark of the Wolves, Street Fighter 3, Marvel, etc…but they couldn’t compare to KOF in terms of popularity, every new entry was almost like an event, and it just became insanely popular…why? is hard to tell actually, but that’s how it was, it doesn’t have to do with piracy nor cheapness, the game just got really popular, it would be like asking why Mortal Kombat is really popular in the US or why Mark of the Wolves, a terrific game, wasn’t more popular.
At least, that’s the way i feel it.