If you went downtown with a karate gi people would want to fight you, too!

No nonsense town

Same! 33 myself

Once you learned to keep baiting him into the Zanretsuken, he became cake,

At least Akuma will accept the fact that he's being defeated by you if you're doing well but Mr Karate he is straight up cheat if he's losing

@@BlackPopeye44 yep I was fighting him last night and noticed that

Sakazaki sensei is no pushover.

Ofcourse,because you dont get Akuma every time like you get Takuma in this game.

At least Akuma will accept the fact that he's being defeated by you if you're doing well but Mr Karate he is straight up cheat if he's losing

Janette Fujiwara Geese Howard is worse.

The controls are the real opponent

Marco Varguez I agree

this game is from 1992

Bob Bobby the setting is early 80's though

+journeymanX 80's cheesiness was this game's fuel. This whole game was inspired by over the top martial arts flicks.

That and I also think it was made as a partial parody to the Street Fighter series (which I don't see bad at all, because I actually enjoy it). Ryo and Robert have many similarities with Ryu and Ken. Even certain techniques (especially that flying uppercut they use in the KOFs) are basically ripoffs from some of them.

The guy who made SF created this game and designed Ryo. I wouldn't call it a rip off if its made by the same person.

@M L The controls is what makes SF 2 better. If this controlled well t would easily have been the go to game at that time

@ Not really at all. There are similarities but that's where it stops. This is more Street Fighter+Final Fight, but done in an SNK fashion. And that's why it's cool.

Eric Tagne Fatal Fury is better.

@ AOF was created by the same team that made the original Street Fighter...

@ next joke please

But her games weren't fighting games, the guy literally said the first female fighter.

9:09

No, King isn't a women,is a man. Didn't you know it?

@@juanbadilla2232 Huh? King is a woman.

No reason why not, - arcade games are built forever. Once you lived through that, no modern whirlygigs can beat it.

Art of Fighting is a prequel to Fatal Fury, so I doubt they'd want to make a prequel to a prequel, lol.

So then there doesn't need to be a prequel to AOF, seeing as Street Smart is the true prequel to this series lol

Yep the controls keep this from being as loved as Street Fighter 2 when its cooler on every level. I wonder why they havent tweaked this game to perfection over the years

Because of, well, Geese and the other shit from AOF2.

Well, Mr. Karate is Takuma Sakazaki, hte father of both Roy and Yuri.

Thats their dad,Yuri and Ryo's I know because I have it on SNES and beat it!!!

@MaverickZero360 sorry if I answer your question after 4 years, if you follow the arcade version, the answer is at Art of Fighting 2 Intro. If you want to know more ending from Art of Fighting 1, you can see ending on SNES version.

Yeah, they had supers first but Akuma? Nah! That idea came from the Sheng Long hoax.

This is the original arcade ending. It's not just an easy difficulty setting.

@New Residen Evil Save Room Music, full ending arcade version is Art of Fighting Ending + Art of Fighting 2 Intro. You can find the answer there.

chris williams yea

I think the spirit energy was really innovative. It was the perfect answer to players spamming projectiles and made the gameplay that much more complex. That's what I enjoyed about the SNK fighters, the gameplay was always more complex than meets the eye. It shuts out a certain fanbase, but really once you master the controls, the experience is much more satisfying than Capcom games. That's just my opinion though.

Mr Karate was the hardest boss than big of one them were harder :( mr karate frustrates me by one hit

You're a man of culture for trying your kids to play these classic games. Too bad they aren't interested

Oscar Tristan "burning Upper"

Yes a few of them all made for the Neo Geo.

+pedro hernandez banda yo tambien, en bastantes lugares me la encontraba.lo que no recuerdo es que pasaba entre stages si no escogias a ryou

Lo mismo pero con robert

TK Yang did the gameplay suck, though? I remember playing it in the arcades and i thought it was good. Maybe i have terrible taste in games :)

TK Yang Well the game is old you know. It‘s not like that those 90‘s games had many options.

I am totally with you. The gameplay was and IS great! This was the most memorable arcade 1:1 fighting for me. Even after the release of the original Mortal Kombat, - Art of Fighting always felt like a tough guy's game, something that you'd have to DARE to play, if you understand me. Completely unlike the kiddy-oriented equivalents like Fatal Fury and World Heroes, - the fighting moves, the sound FX, music, voices and screams actually made you feel like it is you who is doing the fights. Here is a cool AOF myth, that was circulating around the arcades in my time: I could almost never defeat Mr.Big, and my friends claimed, most likely as a joke, - that there is a real connection between martial arts training and this game, saying that black belt in kyokushin karate is necessary to finish the game...of course it is nonsense, but in my teens back then i believed it! Not only that i wasn't the only sucker to buy into this rumor, but it was a hell of a motivation too :-)

The gameplay was slow and feels really heavy, that's why this game is not good at all because of gameplay. Art of Fighting 2 is a bit better and 3 is by far, really by far much better. Art of Fighting is not a good game at all and not because is an old game, because I feel Street Fighter II more fluid than this one, was because of all the things that they want to have for the game: Special Moves by Energy Bar, Super Special Moves, Desesperations Moves when Life Bar is in low, see the damage of the fighters when they got hurt and yes, the details and innotations(Like Desesperation Moves) were really awesome but all of those were so much resources and can affect to the gameplay. About like or not like this game, even critics knows that "for tastes, colors", and personally I like it, but not because of that I'm not going to recognize their faults.

@BPKDLH07 i prefer Art of Fighting than Street Fighter II. SF II was easy when i was still very young (10y+), i ended sf Ii hardest level arcade in first tried but not Art of Fighting.hardest level arcade. I still needed to learn opponent movement again and again until i can defeated Art of Fighting hardest level game. Player vs Player, I still prefer Art of Fighting, more challenging with many character choice by players, but not SF II. Ppl always used Ryu, Ken, Guile, and sometimes Blank or Dhalsim. Next SF II edition, only M.Bison was favourite new char added by players on my country.