I'm genuinely curious if anyone else in the GB community/team encountered this game in the wild as it seems to pop up in "rarest games" lists rather frequently. Thing is my local arcade had the English release of this game back in 2001/2002 and it's not like it was a big arcade since it was attached to the cinema in the mall near my college (or 11/12 high school for the US peeps). It seems like KoF had a much larger local scene in my neck of the woods so it blows my mind that I apparently sank waaaaaaaay to much money into one of the rarest releases in existence.

Never seen it, though I've only maybe seen 2 KoF machines ever. Most places around here had Vs Capcom or Virtua Fighter.

What's crazier is that we had 2 machines, sit down and back to back Japanese style. We even had a KoF '99 machine in the common room along side an MvC2 machine.

@korwin: I've seen King of the Fighters at the local bowling alley. I was more of a street fighter, mortal kombat fan to actually be able to remember which version it was. I do remember it did have a fan base playing it though.

SNK was a strange developer, they had good stuff but being mostly on there own very expensive system the Neo Geo most people only casually got into there stuff.

I think I would have been a bigger fan of there's if the Metal Slug games came to the snes, otherwards I saw them as the rich kids game company. I respect them but i think they made bad choices that kept them from getting really big.