THE KING OF FIGHTERS: The Ultimate HistoryBitmap Books is incredibly proud to present THE KING OF FIGHTERS: The Ultimate History. Put simply, KOF is one of the most important fighting game series of all time, and today, in 2022, it is considered versus fighter royalty. But despite this legacy, the history of this long running and much beloved gaming series has never been comprehensively told, leaving the story of how it came to be, and the cultural phenomenon it became, largely shrouded in

Pex Tufvesson

Ricki Martin

Andrew and Philip Oliver

Steven Lynn

We also use thread sewn binding for extra durability and the ability to lay the book open flat

The book also features interviews with key artists and profiles of the major games publishers

plus a look at first-person shooters that were never released

It’s a book about people who followed their hearts first and market trends second

Kinuyo Yamashita and Hideo Yoshizawa

Following the genre’s meteoric rise over the previous decade

Hiroki Kikuta

to Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition