The producer of the Maximum Impact series, Falcoon, stated that the Maximum Impact games are in a different canon from the original series of games. The game and its two sequels use an alternate story for characters and settings from previous game of the series, leaning more towards the South Town-based series like FF and AOF. In 2004, SNK produced the first 3D installment of the series, KOF: Maximum Impact. By 2004, SNK abandoned yearly releases of the series and usually numbered future games in a more traditional manner: the first main series game released as such was The King of Fighters XI. With yearly sports games, each new version is meant to be an "update" SNK did differently, making each year unique with new rules and a constantly changing character rosters even to this day. The success of the game lead to SNK to release yearly installments of the series and numbered the games for the year they were released. The game was designed to be a dream match of characters from the company's various arcade titles, particularly, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Ikari Warriors, and Psycho Soldier. The first game in the series, The King of Fighters '94, was released by SNK in 1994.
The next main game in the series, The King of Fighters XV, was announced in EVO 2019. The latest main game in the series, The King of Fighters XIV, was released on Augfor PlayStation 4, and on Jfor Steam. Aside from this, ports of the arcade games and original The King of Fighters games have been released for the various consoles of then and now, such as SNK's own Neo Geo Pocket, the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, the Sega Saturn and the Dreamcast, the PlayStation and Xbox series of consoles, and even the N-Gage, among others.
For the next few games, the Atomiswave would be used, and later the Taito Type X2.
The series was originally developed for SNK's Neo Geo video game systems, which would continue until SNK retired the Neo Geo completely in 2004. Its claim to fame is the large cast of characters and the innovative "team" system, with both original designs and characters from other SNK games. The King of Fighters, officially abbreviated KOF, is the most prominent series of fighting games by SNK. For the tournament, check The King of Fighters (tournament).
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