Hello and welcome to episode 690 of the geekbox,

here every other week podcast for all the stuff we like.

Here's the episode for the week of July 21st, 2025.

I'm your host, Ryan Scott.

With me as Ryan Higgins.

Party on, Ryan.

Party on, Ryan.

I think that should be our new thing, actually.

How did we never done that before?

With me as always is Ryan.

Yeah.

You said something earlier today that amused me, Ryan.

Me, for the last I.

Yeah, you said, how the hell are there 15 King of Fighters games

Oh I went in the PlayStation store

I went in the PlayStation store and I was like King of Fighters 15

I'm like really?

I think that many of these games.

I was thinking like Street Fighter have a lot but actually like the numbers

kind of low because they have lost to me like right well the thing is the thing is that in back in the 90s the neo geo they just used the same hardware for everything right because that was their like consoleized arcade platform and they just released a new king of fighters every single year for like a decade yeah yeah and it was all the same art and the same engine and the same hardware and they could just churn them out, right? And so they were like King of Fires 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, oh, 1, 2, 3, right? And then they slowed down. And then they, that was when the NeoGeo died. Yeah, yeah, okay. And then they started on like 11 and 12, right? It made more sense when I looked at the list and I was like, okay, I know there's spin-offs and stuff, but I was like, I don't remember. The main series, there were 15, yeah, 15 came on in 2022. I don't remember them making that many back in the day. Yeah, but it would be like the equivalent, like, you know, like, if you look at like, Canyon Fighters 94, 95, 96, 97, there are certain ones, like 98 and 2002 where people

are like, these are the good ones.

But the other ones are like, they're like the equivalent of like Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2

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