The fighting game genre just wouldn’t be the same without the Fatal Fury series (known as Garou Densetsu in Japan). Beyond defining SNK and the rise of the NEOGEO hardware, the early Fatal Fury releases established a foundational template that has influenced every competitive fighter since – shaping arcade and console gaming in diverse and profound ways.

Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History tells that story in remarkable detail, informed by candid interviews with key developers from across the Fatal Fury series, including pixel artists Hitoshi Okamoto, Youichiro Soeda, and Nobuyuki Kuroki, planner and designer Takeshi Kimura, and Chief Producer of SNK Fighting Games, Yasuyuki Oda, who also authored the book’s foreword. Bitmap Books were also granted access to the celebrated gaming company’s vast archive of concept sketches, promotional illustrations, and cover art.

As a result, inside the pages of Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History you’ll discover an unprecedented visual and written history, which explores the series’ emergence within SNK, the design philosophies that guided the creation of each of the games, and the fascinating connections with other fighting icons such as KOF and Art of Fighting. The book also explores the new standards for world building and character development that the Fatal Fury games brought to arcade game design, shining a light on rostrum icons like Terry Bogard, Mai Shiranui, and Geese Howard. Every game in the series, meanwhile, is covered in-depth, from the famed NEOGEO console and arcade titles, to Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition, Fatal Fury: First Contact, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

Across 460+ pages, readers will also be treated to all manner of visual delights, from vibrant full-page sprite sheets to carefully reproduced screenshots, as well as the aforementioned concept and promotional artworks by artists including Shinkiro, TONKO and Eiji Shiroi – all printed using special Pantone ink and high-quality paper.

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