   , officially abbreviated kof, is a series of fighting games developed by snk playmore (formerly snk), which began with the king of fighters '94 in 1994. the series was originally developed for snk's neo geo mvs arcade hardware, which served as the main platform for the series until 2004, when snk retired the mvs in favor of the atomiswave arcade board. only two king of fighters games were made on the atomiswave platform (the king of fighters neowave and the king of fighters xi) before snk decided to discontinue using the platform for the series. the current arcade hardware for the series is the taito type x2, with its first usage coming with the release of the king of fighters xii. ports of the arcade games and original the king of fighters games have been released for several video games consoles. ==games==  ===main series===  imagesize = width:280 height:1000 plotarea = left:50 bottom:20 top:10 right:0 dateformat = yyyy period = from:1994 till:2010 timeaxis = orientation:vertical order:reverse scalemajor = unit:year increment:1 start:1994 scaleminor = unit:year increment:1 start:1994 colors = id:blue value:rgb(0,0,0) id:red value:rgb(0.9,0.05,0.05) # there is no automatic collision detection, # so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar # shift texts up or down when two have same year define $up = shift:($dx,1) define $dw = shift:($dx,-8) plotdata= bar:games anchor:till color:blue width:15 textcolor:blue align:left fontsize:s mark:(line,white) shift:($dx,-4) from:1994 till:2010 at:1994 text:"the king of fighters '94" at:1995 text:"the king of fighters '95" at:1996 text:"the king of fighters '96" at:1997 text:"the king of fighters '97" at:1998 text:"the king of fighters '98" at:1998 shift:($dx,-15) text:"the king of fighters kyo" at:1998 shift:($dx,-25) text:"the king of fighters r1" at:1999 text:"the king of fighters '99" at:1999 shift:($dx,-15) text:"the king of fighters r2"
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