It's always impressive to see this game that runs in the same machine as the first Fatal Fury.

Oh wow this was the one in my university's arcade spot. I'd been trying to remember exactly which KOF it had. Seeing the intro brought it back. That was a cool little arcade. It had Third Strike, Street Fighet EX + Alpha, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Guilty Gear XX and a handful of pinball machines.

Max in 2019: _ew_ _no_ Max in 2022: Love it, one of the best ones *character* *development*

Getting into more KOF games with Max is like entering into a whole new world. It's a experience.

One of the final games to come out for the Neo Geo, the last KOF game on Neo Geo. A moment of silence.

I really get a kick out of Mukai just throwing rocks at you. That's just so simple, yet effective.

So the lore in kof 2003 is Ikari Warriors team wins the kof tournament against Adelheid K's team are the ones that defeats Kusanagi and Mukai And the Sacred Treasures team's ending is what occurs after the defeat of Mukai and shows how chizuru loses her powers by Ash

I can’t be the only one that yells “Kakatte koi!” At the top of their lungs when Ryo appears 😂

I've been saying this for a while, 2003 is VERY underrated, possibly the most underrated KOF game, it has a great roster, a great presentation and the tag system is a lot of fun, the next game however, is simply perfection.

Oswald + Shen + Duo Lon would be a fantastic XV DLC team...

2003 was such an awesome installment. Great music, cool tag system, and we started seeing the Garou characters start to be integrated into the KOF lore.

Max struggling so much with Mukai, he's gonna have a good time with Magaki

By this point they really knew how to squeeze as much as possible from that hardware, the graphical tricks they pulled off with 2003 are pretty impressive, specially if you play it on a CRT like it was designed for. I remember back in the day trying to figure out how they did transparencies on a Neo Geo, then I read that it was actually a quickly flickering dithering patterns taking advantage of the color persistence of a CRT monitor. Also my favorite game in the series as far as gameplay and presentation goes.

Kof 2003 was the kof that got me into the series it makes me happy that max enjoyed the gameplay of it

Man, I really love KoF'03. It is my all time favorite FG. I know it has some problems, but still love it.

Team Ash is so random. You got the androgynous guy, the gothic shadow guy and the punk. Always found that interesting and funny lol

I remember UK game magazines slamming this game for being another boring out of date 2D fighter... I loved it.

Probably the most underrated KoF game, I personally love it

I remember just doing Duolon's rekka > teleport > command grab loop in this game. Works against AI 99% of the time.

You actually dont dislike this one, that makes me a happy boy.

Ah. Kof 2003. One of my favorite.

If he thinks this boss was cheap, I can't wait for kof XI

"Feels like the Darkstalkers of KOF games....." Uhhhh care to explain.

This is the game that introduced me to KOF and I'm beaming seeing how much Max is praising it 😁

kof 2003 was my first kof game that made me in love with kof!! so happy when u played it

I'm glad Mukai is actually giving Max that SNK Boss Challenge without cutting them short.

the canonical winners of this KOF tourny in 03 was the Ikari team. No idea why people said Ash's team

I still play this KOF on my PS3. Bought this for my PS2 back in the day. This one is so much fun 😊💯

Is this the beginning of Kim's legendary pants?

Mukai remains one of my favorite FG characters of all time. Loved his style and artwork. 🤘😆

the other boss you fight in this game is adelheid bernstein who is rugal's son and fights like an inferior version of him e.g. rugal's special moves are adelheid's supers. This is the only game where the ikari warriors are the canonical winners of kof maki is chizuru's deceased sister. I think if you play as chizuru in one of the previous games instead of fighting chizuru you fight maki instead. Gameplaywise shes a superior chizuru. Chizuru's clones can be hit to damage her. Maki's clones act like true projectiles and can't be used to hurt her at all These games had the real shatter all expectations in terms of teams, especially 11 where they said fuck it and went crazy putting the teams together. I think this game might be the first game Kim's pants appear in. In the previous games hes just wearing some regular pants that aren't animated anything special.

Mukai was planned to be in KOF 13

KOF 2003 is the game that I had fun playing on, it really grew on me.

Great game! Honestly my fave next to 97 and XI. Speaking of Xi, I hope it gets ported to PS4 someday like all the others in the series...

2003 aka oh so we went from K' to Ash.........and immediately I am missing K and Kyo. At least this is where the series was starting to get their feet wet and try cool things like the LDMs, the tag team switching and the cancels into supers. Can't wait til we get to KOF11!

Mukai is literally an SNK boss infused with the power of a Mortal Kombat "fuck your button, I press my stronger button!" boss. The overhead pillar attack is FRAME 1 FULL INVULN, SAFE ON WHIFF, AND TRACKING

My favourite kof game!!! Used to play it when it came out for years.

This was my first KOF when I was younger. I'll never forget how amazed I was with that intro.

what's most surprising for me is that he beat kusanagi in his 1st try

i don't care what anybody says after all these years. KOF 03 was great game and way ahead of its time and still holds up to this day

The animation of KOF 03 is really awesome! It reminds me of SNK vs Capcom SVC Chaos. You know what would be cool? If Boom Studios and Capcom came together to write an SNK vs Capcom crossover comic series. Technically you can do it in video games like Smash and the vs series like SNK and Capcom, but I thought it would be a good idea anyway.

Don't care what anyone else says, I love so much about this game, I played the hell outta it. Plus getting to play Garou Terry in a KoF game? Any chance they get to make my favourite FG character of all time cooler, I'll take it!

Hi Guys, what are your top 3 KoF games? Mine would be 1. KoF 13 2. KoF 2003 3. KoF 98 15 might topple 13 for me, we'll see

Mukai is underrated and Ash is overhated.... Or no?

Ash time baby

I like how with all Max's fighting game history, he is still genuinely surprised when a final boss isn't fair.

this one... it's honestly one of my favorite KoF's. I played the hell outta 2003 on ps2 back in the day. still have my copy too. the arranged OST is EASILY one of my favorite KoF soundtracks too. so yeah, nice to see Max run through this one.

What, I thought team sacred treasures/K’ fought mukai

KOF 2k3 was really fun. Played it all the time at Chinatown when it released.

I have never played KOF2003. Awesome that Max is playing every KOF made

You can play with the Secret Treasures Team in this game (their ending is canon), but the cheatcode to unlock Chizuru is unbelievably hard to pull out

Ash saga bosses are all these outworldly mutant dudes that look like those crazy Dark Souls characters we like to make sometimes, a real departure from those cosmic CEO-looking bosses from NESTS saga.

the canon team that won the tournament in 2003 was the Ikari Warriors Team with Leona, Clark and Ralph and their final boss was Adhelheid Bernstein, I'd be cool if he comes back as DLC in 15.

This is my favorite KOF in terms of visuals and sound design.

I'm in love with Kyo's theme in 2003...

Not only do the sprites of 2003 look pretty good, but the sound effects sound great too! The innofensive tapping sound of blocks, the pitter patter of running and the sound of Boss Man's rock pillars crumbling sounded super crisp!

I thought Team Ikari was the canon winners?

GOOD LORD ALMIGHTY THAT PIXEL SPRITE!!! This is amongst the most gorgeous game I’ve seen in years!! DAAAAM…..

Btw Max it was K’ whose canon team it is in 2003. Or a mix of Ikari, K’, and Kyo.

I finally got king of fighters xi and maximum impact for my ps2 yesterday, and I've been loving both of them.

DAMMIT HE DIDN’T GET TO FIGHT ADELHEID (Rugal’s son) (Also my favourite KOF character.)

Sweet one of my favorite KOF titles. Mainly since it’s Ash’s first appearance.

KOF 2003 and XI were the two known KOF games that I think had a "Tag" mechanic.

Listening to all these KOF narrations, I think Max should consider doing audiobooks. It'd be...an experience, if nothing else.

Some Fun Fact: Ash's VA also voices Balrog in SNK Vs Capcom.

I always thought this game was unique because the main protagonist team didn't actually win the tournament but instead it was team Ikari it's pretty cool that there's 3 main stories that play out in this game with Team ash, Team sacred treasures and team Ikari two of which still plays a factor in the main plot KOF to this day

How did I know he wouldn't write it as Tales of Ash saga

Mukai is such an underrated boss since you don't ever see the guy even in the ONE game he is present.

Never seen this boss before but id love for him to return

You forgot to watch the team sacred treasures ending. Ash steals the Yata mirror from Chizuru. Also, a complaint I here about 2003 is that the audio feedback is dull, which I don't think that personally. However, when I played it on ACA Neo Geo for Switch, it seems that the Audio slightly delayed to me. It might just be me or something on the emulator's end. Aside from that, I think that 2003 is a Solid Tag Team Fighter.

And we finally see Mukai. Always thought this guy was cool. Side note, the largest Neo Geo games were 708 Megs running on the Giga Power software, which were Metal Slug 3 and 5, SamSho 5 and 5 special, and SvC Chaos. These were absolutely pushing the limits of some pretty old hardware than ran stuff from 1990, but SNK somehow managed to make KoF 2003 with 716 Megs, making it the largest and only one of it's size. The game itself even looks stupidly good on Neo Geo hardware, and they somehow made a 3v3 tag game with these limits.

I am obsessed with this legacy series❤

Kof’98 and ‘99 are my favorite in the series ‘01 being the weirdest one lol 😆 and ‘95 having the best sound effects in the history of kOF imo.

In canon ash team didnt win these tornament, is ikari or k' team, in 11 is elizabeth and same for 13

Ah yes, the fastest paced KoF game and the one that has the best super flash animations

K❤F!

Really enjoying this series man much love

If only kof XV had the xi tag system as a bonus mode, oh how fun would that be.

Ash's fireball super having full invincibility is one hell of a drug

2003 is so underrated

KOF. Where every Sponsor has dark intentions

MMMUUUUUUKKKAAAAAAIIIII !!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I thought I was going to see the Kyo + Iori + Chizuru (may need to use cheats) ending, which has much a bigger impact to the plot

I hope they add roll-back to this game.

Prior to XIII GM, this was the only Ash Saga game on Switch. Hopefully now they put XI on it.

The big problem about this game is the poor sound. Also, while the characters are great there is still a lack of characters to which would be awesome in this edition of KOF.

Suprised he liked the game since most fans have rather mixe opinions about it, tho i wish the chat told him to check out Kyo and the Ikaris' team endings so he could grasp what's going on.

This is my favorite KoF game!

It's funny that the KOF tournament part in this one is so short and they go right into the 'world ending/domination portion' of the story.

To me, this is the most impressive KOF from the Neo Geo era, graphically speaking. It's astonishing.

Max doing that laugh towards the end is hilarious

Soon Max vs Magaki loool

I love when Maki just giggles and goes all over the place in max difficulty. When she actually switches to Chizuru the game is playable, but when she tags that GOD damn dancing kagebunshi naruto double it's all ogre.

Mukai IS Asura. But 3 years before Asura's Wrath was ever released!! :o ...or was it 5 years?

You shouldve done the Sacred Treasures team as they have a pretty good storyline in here where Ash ends up being the villain and ripping out Chizuru's chest in a cut scene

Feels like an actual boss fight (3 vs. 1) when the opponent has three life bars! It’s not often in fighting games boss characters have a different life bar from you because most fighters even the boss has the same life bar and power bar (sometimes don’t like Onslaught or Abyss but his power gauge displays but stays empty throughout the entire battle) you do. Apocalypse (his HP gauge displayed on the bottom of the screen), Galactus and Ultron Sigma (who have vertical health gauges, you don’t see that every day) are the exceptions however. You all know what health bars and power gauges are shaped like, right? Rectangles, popsicle sticks, indented rectangles (or parallelogram, is that what they’re called?) like the Wii banner and of course, parallelograms. The colours appear to be yellow, green (an appropriate colour for health bars imo), blue (which works for power bars imo) and sometimes red or whatever other colour they may be. We all know most of the time health bars are displayed on the top of the screen whereas power meters are sometimes below the vitality meter but most of the time it seems on the bottom of the screen along with what power level the character is on. Why does nobody seem to explain this?

The King of Fighters 2003 is one of the best games in the series. It has a great story, has better colours for the characters, more sprites, Highly detailed Athena outfit for the first time in history, and the best art of all the games combined. Game didnt do well cause legacy players couldent do their cheap low jumps as much as they wanted due to mobility being tikered with. Bunch of cry babies ;)

Max playing Duo Lon, not realzing his the most broken character in KOF 2003

Suprised but glad you liked 2003 with the tag system and, whilst hoping you would play Ikari Warriors, it was great to see you enjoy Ash. Whilst I'm not the biggest fan of this saga, in terms of gameplay it was pretty stellar with 2 of some of my favourite games XI and XIII.

This was the one I grew up with. I really hope it gets the same Steam treatment as some of the others.