KOF is the fighting game equivalent of Soccer. Popular everywhere else but America. Marvel is the NFL. And SF is Baseball.
We like to lay claim to it, but the Japanese are really the ones who dominate?
Street Fighter creator and old snk Head of the development team and now Dimps CEO **Takashi Nishiyama **finally speaks.
“The first major project I was involved in was actually the Neo-Geo hardware. Until then, and I believe it was the same worldwide as it was in Japan, arcade operators would have to purchase a machine for each game. But Neo-Geo systems used ROM cassettes so, like with consoles, operators could purchase the hardware once and switch cheap ROM cassettes to run different games. I’m the one who proposed this idea at SNK, as well as the idea for the home console version.”
“The main reason I thought it was a good idea is it was very difficult to sell new arcade games in China, Central America, and South America because of piracy. By creating a hardware system with cheap software, we were able to sell a lot of games even in pirate-heavy markets, and I think that was one of the main factors that led to SNK’s success.”
actually before kof got famous, the two major race who played it was asians/hispanics. eversince kof xiii came out it attracted more people in america. now snk pretty much got everyone playing it. but asians and hispanics are the only two whos are dominating the game.