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''Art of Fighting'' (龍虎の拳: ''Ryūko no Ken'', in Japan and in Video Game Music archives), or ''AOF'' (or ''RnK'' in video game music archives) for short, is a Fighting Game series created by SNK . It is one of the many SNK series that ties into '' The King Of Fighters ''. GAMEPLAY ''Art of Fighting'' was the first fighting game with a super bar, and introduced the spirit gauge and desperation move (the equivalent of super moves, often used with SNK fighting games) into the fighting game vernacular. A spirit gauge is a manually charged super combo gauge where all special moves will utilize and drain, with greater amounts of power dealing greater amounts of damage. STORY The central story of the original ''Art of Fighting'' is a typical Damsel In Distress story set in the fictitious city of Southtown (a common setting among SNK games), where the duo of Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia try to rescue Ryo's sister and Robert's love interest, Yuri Sakazaki . It takes place before the '' Fatal Fury '' series, since Jeff Bogard, father of Terry and Andy Bogard from ''Fatal Fury'', is alive at the time ''Art of Fighting'' took place, according to what Takuma Sakazaki said during the ending. Also, in the second game we can see a young Geese Howard , when he was just a corrupt police commissioner making his way through the way of the underworld, as the secret final Boss . Although the story starts this way, future games would focus more on the struggles of the Sakazaki family and their fictitious style of Karate known as Kyokugenryu Karate (meaning "Extreme style"). The more recent games containing the Sakazaki family are outside the ''Art of Fighting'' series, mostly the ''King of Fighters'' series. On its own, the ''Art of Fighting'' series seems to take place in the late '' and characters such as Terry Bogard are being aged to match the supposed timeframe of the ''Mark of the Wolves'' games (which is said to take place in the year 2008 ) for ''The King of Fighters'' series, a lot of the ''Art of Fighting'' characters are being slowly aged to match how they would look had the ''Art of Fighting'' timeline not been altered. An example of this is Ryo in ''Buriki One'' and him and Robert in '' Neo Geo Battle Coliseum ''. GAMES Art of Fighting series
PORTS All 3 games were released for the MVS Arcade System, Neo Geo Home System, as well as Neo Geo CD. No version of AOF exists for the Neo Geo Pocket.
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CHARACTERS Characters From Fatal Fury Characters appearing outside this series These include characters that have appeared in ''The King of Fighters'' as well as the '' SNK Vs. Series ''.
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