"This battle is about to explode!"
"This is gonna be a match to remember!"
- Capcom vs. SNK 2's announcer before a fight.
During the height of the
Fighting Game popularity, one of
Capcom's biggest competitors was
SNK, creators of the
Neo Geo console and arcade system, who challenged
Street Fighter's dominance with a wide array of linked and standalone games and series, culminating with their own
Massive Multiplayer Crossover,
The King of Fighters. Naturally, in 1999 and 2000, the
inevitable happened, and the two companies came together to both make separate
Fighting Games based on the concept.
The fighting games of this series, so far, are these:
SNK also developed three card battle games based on the concept, the most recent for the Nintendo DS ending the
SNK series as a whole and notoriously containing a
Game-Breaking Bug.
Examples of the series in general:
- Demoted to Extra: Characters such as Robert Garcia, Mature, Daimon, Yang and Andy get only passing mentions, assist roles, or cameos, in the entire Capcom vs. SNK series. This is very noticeable in the SNK side, because most of the Ko F teams (sans the Women Fighters Team) are incomplete in the games. for example, the Art of Fighting Team lacks Robert, the Fatal Fury Team lacks Andy, the Japan Team lacks Goro Daimon, the Villain Team lacks Billy Kane, and so on. Chang also shares his moveset with Choi in Capcom vs. SNK 2, but Choi got into SVC Chaos with Chang only getting cameos.
- Dialogue Tree: The games are full of this, with stuff like Geese throwing a Reppuuken at Bison to blow his cape away.
- Loads and Loads of Characters: The Card Fighters games. Of course, being digital trading card games, the characters themselves don't appear per se.
- Shout Out: Check the page.
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