Well for all you Brits out there who always get pissed on how the US keeps on getting everything before you guys do, here’s you time to gloat. This week, SNK’s very first fighting game Fatal Fury is debuting one the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console in the UK, along with Streets of Rage 3, Golden Axe 3, Landstalker, and Super Thunder Blade. For those of who don’t know about Fatal Fury, it was insanely expensive-yet-insanely-powerful-console-for-its-time NEO-GEO’s answer to the Street Fighter 2 madness of the early 90’s. Fatal Fury was fairly popular in its day and was known for it’s “two-plane” fighting field in which players can jump from different view planes to avoid attacks. The game itself would spawn 10 others Fatal Fury games throughout the NEO-GEO platforms. Familiar characters such as Terry and Andy Bogard would eventually make appearances in other SNK’s massive fighting line up of games. Fatal Fury will run you 900 Wii Points ($9.00) or in UK talk, (£6.75) as well as the upcoming NEO-GEO games.
I’m actually a bit upset that this didn’t show up on the US Virtual Console. This is one of those games that I wouldn’t even have to consider before buying. Oh well. So you Brits can go ahead gloat. Go ahead. Do it.