

The initial storyline follows Kyo Kusanagi, a young Japanese who enters The King of Fighters tournaments. One of the most recent games in the series are KOF: Maximum Impact series. Ports of the arcade games and original The King of Fighters games have been released for the Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo Pocket, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, N-Gage, Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation and PlayStation 2, PC, and Xbox. The series was originally developed for SNK's Neo-Geo MVS arcade hardware, which served as the main platform for the series until 2004, when SNK retired the MVS in favor of the Atomiswave arcade board and will move the series to the Taito Type X2 with the release of The King of Fighters XII.

The King of Fighters, officially abbreviated KOF, is a series of fighting games by SNK Playmore, formerly SNK.
