ULTIMATE GUIDE THE MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM SNK VS. CAPCOM
Apr 14, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS BY NICK THORPE
From the surprising beef between Guilty Gear and BlazBlue fans to Dead Or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki’s relentless jabs at over the years, it’s plain to see th at rivalries are inevitable when you’re dealing with a genre as inherently adversarial as fighting games. When it comes to fighting game rivalries, there is none more storied than the competition between Osaka-based developers Capcom and SNK, the two companies that emerged as the leading developers of the arcade fighting boom of the Nineties. This wasn’t just a case of fanboys at war – you could see little digs being made in games, with Dan Hibiki’s outright mockery of the series being the most obvious.
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