SNK

SNK is a company that mostly made several action and fighting games, including Metal Slug, The King of FuckersFighters and Samurai Shodown. Their series have many fans, and Samurai Shodown II is one of the few games to receive acclaim from everyone who's played it, but Capcom hates their guts for some reason. Maybe it's because one of their characters is a Street Fighter knockoff.

Also, they made the NeoGeo arcade system/home console and the portable NeoGeo Pocket. They also closed down in 2003 and then reopened a while later. They're also releasing collections of their old games on more recent consoles, and a few installments of their most well-known series are on the Wii's Virtual Console. Their games are notable for featuring smooth, high-quality animations.

Games they made

• Fatal Fury
• Art of Fighting
• The King of Fighters
• Samurai Shodown
• Metal Slug
• The Last Blade
• Blue's Journey
• Garou: Mark of the Wolves
• SNK vs. Capcom (SVC Chaos and Match of the Millenium, with assistance from Capcom on the latter)
• NeoGeo Battle Coliseum

Capcom VS SNK

The supposed origin behind this series was an issue of Arcadia magazine in which there were articles covering both The King of Fighters '98 and Street Fighter Alpha 3, both of which were released at around the same time. Readers had misread the cover, which said KOF vs. SF, to mean that there was a fighting game that would pit characters from Street Fighter and The King of Fighters. Because of this uproar, Capcom and SNK supposedly signed a deal that would allow them to produce only two fighting games concerning both franchises in 1999. Thus, the series started, resulting in four games; two by SNK, and two more by Capcom. Although the other three were well-received, SVC Chaos received some criticism for the odd and somewhat scary-looking sprites, and how apparently, Earthquake is more important than Haohmaru and Nakoruru. Yeah.

VS. Games

• SNK vs. Capcom - Match of the Millenium (NeoGeo Pocket Colour)
• SNK vs. Capcom - SVC Chaos (Xbox, Playstation2)
• Capcom vs. SNK - Millenium Fight 2000
• Capcom vs. SNK 2 - Mark of the Millenium 2001

Notable SNK characters

• Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury/Garou: Mark of the Wolves)
• Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury)
• Geese Howard (Fatal Fury)
• Kyo Kusanagi (King of Fighters)
• Ryo Sakazaki (Art of Fighting)
• Genjuro Kibagami (Samurai Shodown)
• Haohmaru (Samurai Shodown)
• Nakoruru (Samurai Shodown)
• Marco Rossi (Metal Slug)
• Fio (Metal Slug)
• Dan Hibiki (Let's face it; without SNK, he probably wouldn't exist)

Liked by

• Ninja Coach Z (for Samurai Shodown)
• Nobuhiro Watsuki (the creator of Rurouni Kenshin)
• Bugs Bunny
• Lots of people/poopers

Disliked by

• Ninja Coach Z (STRANGE; ISN'T IT!?)
• Dan Hibiki (he hates the art of fighting)
• Capcom (for ripping them off)