King of Fighters Retrospective: 96

It’s pretty hard to deny that the first two King of Fighters games have aged about as well as the original Mortal Kombat games.  Maybe it was fun to play them with friends back in the 90s, but today we see them for the almost-unplayable mess they are.  I hardly even consider KOF 94 and 95 King of Fighters games, because they don’t carry the core values of what I love about the series.

With that, you may as well forget that King of Fighters 94 and ‘95 even existed, because King of Fighters 96 is where the quality titles truly started.