SNK VS. Series



         


The SNK VS. Series is a collection of video games by either Capcom or SNK in which characters that appear in games created by both of these two companies appear. The "VS. Series" terminology originates from the fact that many of these games (but not all) are fighting games, while "SNK" is added to distinguish itself from Capcom's other VS. Series with Marvel Comics.

As a rule, games in this series either contain "SNK Vs. Capcom" or "Capcom Vs. SNK", the first company denoting the company behind the game's publication. Games in this series appear for various platforms, including the Sony Playstation, Nintendo Gamecube, Microsoft Xbox, Neo-Geo Pocket, and Sega Dreamcast.

The supposed origin behind this series was an issue of Arcadia magazine in which there were articles covering both The King of Fighters '98 and Street Fighter Alpha 3, both of which were released at around the same time period. Readers had misread the cover, which said "KOF vs SF", to mean that there was a fighting game that would pit characters from Street Fighter and The King of Fighters.

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Fighting Games

A second version of the game, called Capcom Vs. SNK Pro was released to include the supposed "champions" of the Millennium Fight tournament.
The Nintendo Gamecube and Microsoft Xbox versions of this game were called Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO to introduce a feature called "Easy Operation", where special moves were performed using movement of an analog stick instead of the traditional fighting game motions.
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Non-Fighting Games

Although not commonly referred to as members of the SNK Vs. Series (since they are not fighting games), nevertheless they are part of the series, and they do involve characters from both Capcom and SNK.

This was an electronic trading card game in which cards represented the various Capcom and SNK characters. There were two versions of this game: SNK and Capcom, indicating the game with the higher amount of characters from that company. Physical trading cards have also been created, with slightly differing rules.
This was an electronic trading card game that expanded upon the first to include characters from Capcom Vs. SNK 2.
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Characters

The playable cast of the SNK Vs. Series fighting games are all from various different games (not necessarily fighting games), with each company's flagship fighting game series providing most of the characters. Here is a comprehensive list of them:

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Characters from Street Fighter

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Characters from Final Fight

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Characters from The King of Fighters

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Characters from Fatal Fury

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Characters from Art of Fighting

Characters from Haruna Ikezawa
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Characters from Darkstalkers

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Characters from Samurai Shodown

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Characters from The Last Blade

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Characters from Rival Schools

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Characters from Red Earth

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Characters from Metal Slug

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Characters from Mega Man

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Characters from Athena

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