Sort of. The MVS cabs had updates to them over the years that added things like more RAM, and that would cap to the new games (old game carts would be comparable to the new system, but not visa versa) to those units.
@@DuvJones No, the MVS hardware remained the same for all games. There were hardware revisions on the arcade, but never any kind of upgrade and all games were compatible regardless of board revision. This is indeed the same hardware that runs the first fatal fury, and yes, SNK used the same hardware for more than a decade.
i thought it was for Atomiswave platform, now i understand why this game feels "odd, laggy and with a bit of stutter on the controls" this was the first KOF who dissapointed me
Oh wow this was the one in my university's arcade spot. I'd been trying to remember exactly which KOF it had. Seeing the intro brought it back. That was a cool little arcade. It had Third Strike, Street Fighet EX + Alpha, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Guilty Gear XX and a handful of pinball machines.
I've been saying this for a while, 2003 is VERY underrated, possibly the most underrated KOF game, it has a great roster, a great presentation and the tag system is a lot of fun, the next game however, is simply perfection.
@@axzaos I don't disagree with that, but even with its flaws, 2003 is still one of the best KOF games, KOF XI is the best without a doubt, super polished and the roster is nutty.
Same case with 99 the game has flaws but its understable because was really a experimental tried and was pefected at the next entry, (00 and XI) but has enough charm for itself
So the lore in kof 2003 is Ikari Warriors team wins the kof tournament against Adelheid K's team are the ones that defeats Kusanagi and Mukai And the Sacred Treasures team's ending is what occurs after the defeat of Mukai and shows how chizuru loses her powers by Ash
I have bad news for you. The actual SNK made a retcon in the story of KOF 2003 Now, looks like Ash Team were the ones who won KOF 2003 and beated Mukai. That's lame
Shame but understandable that's its the last time K's team felt relevant due to focus on Orochi again in the plot, hopefully Krohnen changes that in XV.
@@kingdomcomesuperman3669 IKR? I dislike how Team K were just secondary characters and didn't get a good role in the story. And now thanks to the actual retcon. K' Team didn't beat Mukai instead Ash Team did it.
@@meganinten0078 I'm hoping the return of Krohnen along with potentially Nests agents coming back to life will get him in the spotlight but considering the return of team Orochi as well I'm expecting K' to be sidelined for team Sacred Treasures, still though I'm always down for Kyo, Iori & Chizuru I just wish K' got some love.
2003 was such an awesome installment. Great music, cool tag system, and we started seeing the Garou characters start to be integrated into the KOF lore.
The only thing that doesn't make sense is B.Jennet's presence. She'd be far too young to show up canonically yet she still shows up in XI. Gato doesn't have the same problem because even younger he is still in his late teens and still trained in kung fu. Same for Tizoc
@@bloody4558 Fatal Fury and KOF are different timelines, KOF doesnt care about ages in general in comparison with FF/AoF when characters actually can get older
@@000mjd Except that it does, except that we saw a 7 year old Rock Howard beside Terry during the Nests Saga, which means that Bonnie Janet should be 9 years old, Tizoc 18 years old and Gato 16 years old. Gato and Tizoc are old enough to be playable , but not Janet.
@@bloody4558 characters like Gato and B Jennet can easily introduced in KOF because they age and backstories arent related to the core plot at all, Fatal Fury/Buriki One we actually saw a older Ryo like the new Mr Karate
By this point they really knew how to squeeze as much as possible from that hardware, the graphical tricks they pulled off with 2003 are pretty impressive, specially if you play it on a CRT like it was designed for. I remember back in the day trying to figure out how they did transparencies on a Neo Geo, then I read that it was actually a quickly flickering dithering patterns taking advantage of the color persistence of a CRT monitor. Also my favorite game in the series as far as gameplay and presentation goes.
seems there's kind of two stories here... one is Team Ikari Warriors, who actually finish the tournament proper by fighting Rugal Jr. the other is Team Ash, who get teleported into the stuff that leads into the story of this arc/saga with Mukai here Team Ash was the better one to go with, honestly, since they have the story stuff that continues forward. I think taking Team Ikari here would be like if in 14 there were different teams that beat Antonov and Verse... and taking the team that beat Antonov.
@@Iffem Even then is was team K' that fought Chizuru and Mukai with team sacred treasures being a canon ending as well, I think chat just assumed the protagonist would continue to win the tournaments when Ash never does. Plus Max played Ash again in XI even though its Team Rivals who won.
Ikari won against Adelheid and K' team won against Chizuru/Maki and Mukai. Ash lost the tournament early on. He returned in the end only to snatch Chizuru's power.
You can bitch and moan and argue all you want, but this is the best KoF game on Neo Geo. PERIOD. Being able to change characters on the fly is awesome! The music is great, and those backgrounds are insanely gorgeous.
the other boss you fight in this game is adelheid bernstein who is rugal's son and fights like an inferior version of him e.g. rugal's special moves are adelheid's supers. This is the only game where the ikari warriors are the canonical winners of kof maki is chizuru's deceased sister. I think if you play as chizuru in one of the previous games instead of fighting chizuru you fight maki instead. Gameplaywise shes a superior chizuru. Chizuru's clones can be hit to damage her. Maki's clones act like true projectiles and can't be used to hurt her at all These games had the real shatter all expectations in terms of teams, especially 11 where they said fuck it and went crazy putting the teams together. I think this game might be the first game Kim's pants appear in. In the previous games hes just wearing some regular pants that aren't animated anything special.
03 & XI is where SNK is willing to take bold steps with the roster, and it shows. And if XV is of any indication, they’re willing to step out of their comfort zone once more.
Mukai is literally an SNK boss infused with the power of a Mortal Kombat "fuck your button, I press my stronger button!" boss. The overhead pillar attack is FRAME 1 FULL INVULN, SAFE ON WHIFF, AND TRACKING
2003 aka oh so we went from K' to Ash.........and immediately I am missing K and Kyo. At least this is where the series was starting to get their feet wet and try cool things like the LDMs, the tag team switching and the cancels into supers. Can't wait til we get to KOF11!
Yeah I've come to like Ash a lot more as a protagonist but he's never left the same imprent as Kyo or K' in terms of design. Plus gameplay of XI & XIII was stellar
@@kingdomcomesuperman3669 I was so lucky to have come across king of fighters 11 when I was younger because trying to find a new copy nowadays through normal means is almost a nightmare and 13 I was glad that I had it as a Christmas gift because oh god 12 was abysmal.
Not only do the sprites of 2003 look pretty good, but the sound effects sound great too! The innofensive tapping sound of blocks, the pitter patter of running and the sound of Boss Man's rock pillars crumbling sounded super crisp!
the canon team that won the tournament in 2003 was the Ikari Warriors Team with Leona, Clark and Ralph and their final boss was Adhelheid Bernstein, I'd be cool if he comes back as DLC in 15.
I got news to you. The actual SNK made a retcon in the story of KOF 2003 Now, it was Ash Team who were the champions and beated Mukai. I feel sorry for Ikari Warriors fans
Ash saga bosses are all these outworldly mutant dudes that look like those crazy Dark Souls characters we like to make sometimes, a real departure from those cosmic CEO-looking bosses from NESTS saga.
Don't care what anyone else says, I love so much about this game, I played the hell outta it. Plus getting to play Garou Terry in a KoF game? Any chance they get to make my favourite FG character of all time cooler, I'll take it!
this one... it's honestly one of my favorite KoF's. I played the hell outta 2003 on ps2 back in the day. still have my copy too. the arranged OST is EASILY one of my favorite KoF soundtracks too. so yeah, nice to see Max run through this one.
The soundtrack is really good in Kof 2003 there's Splendid Evil(a great way to introduce the newcomers), KD (a nice way to show how K' has come so far), Joyrider
I always thought this game was unique because the main protagonist team didn't actually win the tournament but instead it was team Ikari it's pretty cool that there's 3 main stories that play out in this game with Team ash, Team sacred treasures and team Ikari two of which still plays a factor in the main plot KOF to this day
@@Mondragora99 Almost won, because remember that Ogre transformed to True Ogre, so the tournament continued, with Jin defeating True Ogre and winning the tournament.
1. '02 UM 2. '98 UM 3. Xlll Man i honestly never liked '03 that much and i thought most of the community felt the same, pretty crazy to see so much love for it here, lol.
The animation of KOF 03 is really awesome! It reminds me of SNK vs Capcom SVC Chaos. You know what would be cool? If Boom Studios and Capcom came together to write an SNK vs Capcom crossover comic series. Technically you can do it in video games like Smash and the vs series like SNK and Capcom, but I thought it would be a good idea anyway.
And we finally see Mukai. Always thought this guy was cool. Side note, the largest Neo Geo games were 708 Megs running on the Giga Power software, which were Metal Slug 3 and 5, SamSho 5 and 5 special, and SvC Chaos. These were absolutely pushing the limits of some pretty old hardware than ran stuff from 1990, but SNK somehow managed to make KoF 2003 with 716 Megs, making it the largest and only one of it's size. The game itself even looks stupidly good on Neo Geo hardware, and they somehow made a 3v3 tag game with these limits.
Technically, it's 716 megaBITS, not MegaBYTES, as none of the cartridge-based consoles of the 90s actually used MB for measurement, but rather Mb. So KOF 2003 was actually 89.5 Megabytes, though that's still massively larger than anything ever released on something like the Genesis or Super Nintendo, as even the more recent homebrew games (like Pier Solar or Paprium) are still nowhere near as large as what these late Neo Geo games were. Hell, even the N64 never went this big, as its limit was 512 Mb, or just 64 MB. Yes, KOF 2003 is larger than the N64 version of Resident Evil 2!
@@saadhasan2518 Those were also huge, but I didn't mention them cause Garou was only 688 Megs, and AoF 3 was 298, which was somehwat large for not using the giga power.
@@saadhasan2518 True, anything late into the Neo Geo's life was impressive. The whole concept of the system having multiple cart slots was super cool and it would be interesting to see if it would have done even better in America and other places where it was more overlooked.
The King of Fighters 2003 is one of the best games in the series. It has a great story, has better colours for the characters, more sprites, Highly detailed Athena outfit for the first time in history, and the best art of all the games combined. Game didnt do well cause legacy players couldent do their cheap low jumps as much as they wanted due to mobility being tikered with. Bunch of cry babies ;)
I hate Ash mainly because of his personality, he is a jerk but not a likeable one. Also, not a fan of his design and gameplay (expect in Maximum Impact Regulation A, Ash plays really good there)
Probably my favourite new addition from the Ash Saga, hope he comes back so they can develop his character more and give us a "Rugal" for non dream match games.
The big problem about this game is the poor sound. Also, while the characters are great there is still a lack of characters to which would be awesome in this edition of KOF.
I love when Maki just giggles and goes all over the place in max difficulty. When she actually switches to Chizuru the game is playable, but when she tags that GOD damn dancing kagebunshi naruto double it's all ogre.
Suprised he liked the game since most fans have rather mixe opinions about it, tho i wish the chat told him to check out Kyo and the Ikaris' team endings so he could grasp what's going on.
Feels like an actual boss fight (3 vs. 1) when the opponent has three life bars! It’s not often in fighting games boss characters have a different life bar from you because most fighters even the boss has the same life bar and power bar (sometimes don’t like Onslaught or Abyss but his power gauge displays but stays empty throughout the entire battle) you do. Apocalypse (his HP gauge displayed on the bottom of the screen), Galactus and Ultron Sigma (who have vertical health gauges, you don’t see that every day) are the exceptions however. You all know what health bars and power gauges are shaped like, right? Rectangles, popsicle sticks, indented rectangles (or parallelogram, is that what they’re called?) like the Wii banner and of course, parallelograms. The colours appear to be yellow, green (an appropriate colour for health bars imo), blue (which works for power bars imo) and sometimes red or whatever other colour they may be. We all know most of the time health bars are displayed on the top of the screen whereas power meters are sometimes below the vitality meter but most of the time it seems on the bottom of the screen along with what power level the character is on. Why does nobody seem to explain this?
Got this game from twitch prime rewards of all places and I've fallen in love. This game single handedly made me understand what's so good about old school fighting games and since trying I've expanded into learning sf3, mvc, and even some darkstalkers. Which is ironic because those games being in the media, and Terry in smash is the only reason I know SNK exists. Better late then never.
Max plays characters he hates during the Nests Saga: "This games are bad, feel horrible, i prefer 94'" Max plays 2003 with characters he actually likes: "Way better, i like this game a lot, tell me more fun things to do with Shen" Morale of the story: Characters make the game.
I enjoyed playing KoF 2003, in the times I've played it, managed to do 10 different LDM (Leader Desperation Moves) with 10 different players, this game is.......AWESOME!!!!!
This game was really well made in graphics and animations back then and SNK was getting back their company from Eolith, but players didn't dig the tag thing and the consoles had already completely swallowed the arcades.
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It's always impressive to see this game that runs in the same machine as the first Fatal Fury.
The MVS System
Sort of. The MVS cabs had updates to them over the years that added things like more RAM, and that would cap to the new games (old game carts would be comparable to the new system, but not visa versa) to those units.
@@DuvJones No, the MVS hardware remained the same for all games. There were hardware revisions on the arcade, but never any kind of upgrade and all games were compatible regardless of board revision.
This is indeed the same hardware that runs the first fatal fury, and yes, SNK used the same hardware for more than a decade.
@@DuvJones all the upgrades were in the carts. The arcade hardware was unchanged - i have one.
i thought it was for Atomiswave platform, now i understand why this game feels "odd, laggy and with a bit of stutter on the controls" this was the first KOF who dissapointed me
Oh wow this was the one in my university's arcade spot. I'd been trying to remember exactly which KOF it had. Seeing the intro brought it back. That was a cool little arcade. It had Third Strike, Street Fighet EX + Alpha, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Guilty Gear XX and a handful of pinball machines.
I miss arcades.
that machine sounds like the early 2000s holy grail right there.
Damn whoever was running that arcade had immaculate taste, Third Strike and MVC2 is already golden
Sounds like an arcade from heaven
@V. S. Werejester The Pull-Out Academy
Max in 2019: _ew_ _no_
Max in 2022: Love it, one of the best ones
*character* *development*
Very happy now that max is truly getting into the series he ended up enjoying XI and 03
Anything to get the viewers up 🤣
Getting into more KOF games with Max is like entering into a whole new world. It's a experience.
Agreed, Max is really having fun with KoF, bless him 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Imagine what it was like back in the 90s and 00s... I grew up with this stuff with people shitting on kof in favor of Capcom
Prise Jesus Christ@@GeekGhostGamerTop
One of the final games to come out for the Neo Geo, the last KOF game on Neo Geo. A moment of silence.
I really get a kick out of Mukai just throwing rocks at you. That's just so simple, yet effective.
In 'XIII', Saiki's true form has an identical attack (where he picks up a stone, and throws it), despite the fact that he already has a projectile.
@@ryanm.8720 "A" Projectile!?
@@John-Stark D'oh.
I've been saying this for a while, 2003 is VERY underrated, possibly the most underrated KOF game, it has a great roster, a great presentation and the tag system is a lot of fun, the next game however, is simply perfection.
The tag system and mechanics in this game had some flaws
They definitely improved in KOF XI
@@axzaos i think the same
XI Is just a perfected version of 2003 and is really fun, characters like Shingo and King receive a lot of improvement
@@axzaos I don't disagree with that, but even with its flaws, 2003 is still one of the best KOF games, KOF XI is the best without a doubt, super polished and the roster is nutty.
The game have flaws, but it sure hella unique KOF game alongside XI.
Same case with 99 the game has flaws but its understable because was really a experimental tried and was pefected at the next entry, (00 and XI) but has enough charm for itself
I can’t be the only one that yells “Kakatte koi!” At the top of their lungs when Ryo appears 😂
So the lore in kof 2003 is
Ikari Warriors team wins the kof tournament against Adelheid
K's team are the ones that defeats Kusanagi and Mukai
And the Sacred Treasures team's ending is what occurs after the defeat of Mukai and shows how chizuru loses her powers by Ash
The most unique story of all of the series.
Ikari Team winning was a great surprise.
I have bad news for you.
The actual SNK made a retcon in the story of KOF 2003
Now, looks like Ash Team were the ones who won KOF 2003 and beated Mukai.
That's lame
Shame but understandable that's its the last time K's team felt relevant due to focus on Orochi again in the plot, hopefully Krohnen changes that in XV.
@@kingdomcomesuperman3669 IKR?
I dislike how Team K were just secondary characters and didn't get a good role in the story.
And now thanks to the actual retcon.
K' Team didn't beat Mukai instead Ash Team did it.
@@meganinten0078 I'm hoping the return of Krohnen along with potentially Nests agents coming back to life will get him in the spotlight but considering the return of team Orochi as well I'm expecting K' to be sidelined for team Sacred Treasures, still though I'm always down for Kyo, Iori & Chizuru I just wish K' got some love.
Oswald + Shen + Duo Lon would be a fantastic XV DLC team...
2003 was such an awesome installment. Great music, cool tag system, and we started seeing the Garou characters start to be integrated into the KOF lore.
The only thing that doesn't make sense is B.Jennet's presence. She'd be far too young to show up canonically yet she still shows up in XI. Gato doesn't have the same problem because even younger he is still in his late teens and still trained in kung fu. Same for Tizoc
I know it's such great fun. It's cool seeing it getting love.
@@bloody4558 Fatal Fury and KOF are different timelines, KOF doesnt care about ages in general in comparison with FF/AoF when characters actually can get older
@@000mjd Except that it does, except that we saw a 7 year old Rock Howard beside Terry during the Nests Saga, which means that Bonnie Janet should be 9 years old, Tizoc 18 years old and Gato 16 years old. Gato and Tizoc are old enough to be playable , but not Janet.
@@bloody4558 characters like Gato and B Jennet can easily introduced in KOF because they age and backstories arent related to the core plot at all, Fatal Fury/Buriki One we actually saw a older Ryo like the new Mr Karate
By this point they really knew how to squeeze as much as possible from that hardware, the graphical tricks they pulled off with 2003 are pretty impressive, specially if you play it on a CRT like it was designed for. I remember back in the day trying to figure out how they did transparencies on a Neo Geo, then I read that it was actually a quickly flickering dithering patterns taking advantage of the color persistence of a CRT monitor.
Also my favorite game in the series as far as gameplay and presentation goes.
Max struggling so much with Mukai, he's gonna have a good time with Magaki
Oh god, and with his penchant to try to rush down everyone. That bastard is going to eat him alive.
Mans better start R o l l i n
Man, I really love KoF'03. It is my all time favorite FG. I know it has some problems, but still love it.
Kof 2003 was the kof that got me into the series it makes me happy that max enjoyed the gameplay of it
Same, I am happy Max had a good time with it. It was pretty much the last kof game I checked out I think. One of my favourites 2003 is.
@Ghostface who's that on your avatar? Looks like the hero from DQ4 or Tiki from Fire Emblem.
Probably the most underrated KoF game, I personally love it
I remember UK game magazines slamming this game for being another boring out of date 2D fighter...
I loved it.
Team Ash is so random. You got the androgynous guy, the gothic shadow guy and the punk. Always found that interesting and funny lol
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels like they threw darts at a board to decide the members of Team Ash.
Light + dark equals Ash
I remember just doing Duolon's rekka > teleport > command grab loop in this game. Works against AI 99% of the time.
Ah. Kof 2003. One of my favorite.
You actually dont dislike this one, that makes me a happy boy.
If he thinks this boss was cheap, I can't wait for kof XI
he played it on stream last night. it was an experience lol
kof 2003 was my first kof game that made me in love with kof!! so happy when u played it
I'm glad Mukai is actually giving Max that SNK Boss Challenge without cutting them short.
the canonical winners of this KOF tourny in 03 was the Ikari team. No idea why people said Ash's team
seems there's kind of two stories here...
one is Team Ikari Warriors, who actually finish the tournament proper by fighting Rugal Jr.
the other is Team Ash, who get teleported into the stuff that leads into the story of this arc/saga with Mukai here
Team Ash was the better one to go with, honestly, since they have the story stuff that continues forward.
I think taking Team Ikari here would be like if in 14 there were different teams that beat Antonov and Verse... and taking the team that beat Antonov.
@@Iffem Even then is was team K' that fought Chizuru and Mukai with team sacred treasures being a canon ending as well, I think chat just assumed the protagonist would continue to win the tournaments when Ash never does. Plus Max played Ash again in XI even though its Team Rivals who won.
Ikari won against Adelheid and K' team won against Chizuru/Maki and Mukai. Ash lost the tournament early on. He returned in the end only to snatch Chizuru's power.
This is the game that introduced me to KOF and I'm beaming seeing how much Max is praising it 😁
KOF 2003 is the game that I had fun playing on, it really grew on me.
You can bitch and moan and argue all you want, but this is the best KoF game on Neo Geo. PERIOD. Being able to change characters on the fly is awesome! The music is great, and those backgrounds are insanely gorgeous.
My favourite kof game!!! Used to play it when it came out for years.
"Feels like the Darkstalkers of KOF games....." Uhhhh care to explain.
i don't care what anybody says after all these years. KOF 03 was great game and way ahead of its time and still holds up to this day
This was my first KOF when I was younger. I'll never forget how amazed I was with that intro.
KOF. Where every Sponsor has dark intentions
the other boss you fight in this game is adelheid bernstein who is rugal's son and fights like an inferior version of him e.g. rugal's special moves are adelheid's supers. This is the only game where the ikari warriors are the canonical winners of kof
maki is chizuru's deceased sister. I think if you play as chizuru in one of the previous games instead of fighting chizuru you fight maki instead. Gameplaywise shes a superior chizuru. Chizuru's clones can be hit to damage her. Maki's clones act like true projectiles and can't be used to hurt her at all
These games had the real shatter all expectations in terms of teams, especially 11 where they said fuck it and went crazy putting the teams together.
I think this game might be the first game Kim's pants appear in. In the previous games hes just wearing some regular pants that aren't animated anything special.
In regards to Kim and his pants you're correct. This is the game that added the flowing animation.
03 & XI is where SNK is willing to take bold steps with the roster, and it shows. And if XV is of any indication, they’re willing to step out of their comfort zone once more.
In new Snk All star, she sister so Op .Really op.
KOF 2002 Kim has those flowing pants.
@@justanotherdxy nope, it was 2002.
I still play this KOF on my PS3. Bought this for my PS2 back in the day. This one is so much fun 😊💯
Mukai is literally an SNK boss infused with the power of a Mortal Kombat "fuck your button, I press my stronger button!" boss.
The overhead pillar attack is FRAME 1 FULL INVULN, SAFE ON WHIFF, AND TRACKING
Mukai remains one of my favorite FG characters of all time. Loved his style and artwork. 🤘😆
KOF 2003 and XI were the two known KOF games that I think had a "Tag" mechanic.
I like how with all Max's fighting game history, he is still genuinely surprised when a final boss isn't fair.
2003 aka oh so we went from K' to Ash.........and immediately I am missing K and Kyo. At least this is where the series was starting to get their feet wet and try cool things like the LDMs, the tag team switching and the cancels into supers. Can't wait til we get to KOF11!
Yeah I've come to like Ash a lot more as a protagonist but he's never left the same imprent as Kyo or K' in terms of design. Plus gameplay of XI & XIII was stellar
@@kingdomcomesuperman3669 I was so lucky to have come across king of fighters 11 when I was younger because trying to find a new copy nowadays through normal means is almost a nightmare and 13 I was glad that I had it as a Christmas gift because oh god 12 was abysmal.
Great game! Honestly my fave next to 97 and XI. Speaking of Xi, I hope it gets ported to PS4 someday like all the others in the series...
Not only do the sprites of 2003 look pretty good, but the sound effects sound great too! The innofensive tapping sound of blocks, the pitter patter of running and the sound of Boss Man's rock pillars crumbling sounded super crisp!
Eh...the sound effects for the hits and Supers is very low to me.
Same I love the sounds in this game.
the canon team that won the tournament in 2003 was the Ikari Warriors Team with Leona, Clark and Ralph and their final boss was Adhelheid Bernstein, I'd be cool if he comes back as DLC in 15.
Adhelheid & Rugal as a team not sure who would be the third I don't think the daughter is a father
@@thesilentsociety3252 Mature would be a great choice!😎
I got news to you.
The actual SNK made a retcon in the story of KOF 2003
Now, it was Ash Team who were the champions and beated Mukai.
I feel sorry for Ikari Warriors fans
@@meganinten0078 well yeah, i said they beat Adhelheid not Mukai but if the other part is true thats weird.
@@alanblazed9737 Save her and Vice with Goentiz
Ash saga bosses are all these outworldly mutant dudes that look like those crazy Dark Souls characters we like to make sometimes, a real departure from those cosmic CEO-looking bosses from NESTS saga.
I have never played KOF2003. Awesome that Max is playing every KOF made
not really every, only the main series. He never played Neowave and EX2 Howling Blood, for example.
I'm in love with Kyo's theme in 2003...
Don't care what anyone else says, I love so much about this game, I played the hell outta it. Plus getting to play Garou Terry in a KoF game? Any chance they get to make my favourite FG character of all time cooler, I'll take it!
This is my favorite KOF in terms of visuals and sound design.
Mukai was planned to be in KOF 13
He should've been in 13
Mukai
Shroom
Rimelo
Botan
All of these were scrapped and from what I think Saiki was going to have a team of his own
this one... it's honestly one of my favorite KoF's. I played the hell outta 2003 on ps2 back in the day. still have my copy too. the arranged OST is EASILY one of my favorite KoF soundtracks too. so yeah, nice to see Max run through this one.
Yes! The ost is really good, so is the ps2 port. One of the best kof console ports. 👌 I love 2003.
The soundtrack is really good in Kof 2003 there's Splendid Evil(a great way to introduce the newcomers), KD (a nice way to show how K' has come so far), Joyrider
I finally got king of fighters xi and maximum impact for my ps2 yesterday, and I've been loving both of them.
KOF 2k3 was really fun. Played it all the time at Chinatown when it released.
Is this the beginning of Kim's legendary pants?
That's vainilla 2002
Vanilla 2002 was the debut of Kim's legendary pants
@@meganinten0078 Eolith did something great
@ Yep.
K9999's sprites and animations are also impressive! Better than Nameless's.
To me, this is the most impressive KOF from the Neo Geo era, graphically speaking. It's astonishing.
I always thought this game was unique because the main protagonist team didn't actually win the tournament but instead it was team Ikari it's pretty cool that there's 3 main stories that play out in this game with Team ash, Team sacred treasures and team Ikari two of which still plays a factor in the main plot KOF to this day
I got some bad news...
The actual SNK made a retcon in the story of KOF 2003
In the new canon, Ash Team were the champions and beated Mukai.
When did they do that?
Like TEKKEN 3. Paul won that tournament and not one of the Mishima.
@@Mondragora99 Almost won, because remember that Ogre transformed to True Ogre, so the tournament continued, with Jin defeating True Ogre and winning the tournament.
@@dameTHEname ignore them, they're lying
Hi Guys, what are your top 3 KoF games? Mine would be
1. KoF 13
2. KoF 2003
3. KoF 98
15 might topple 13 for me, we'll see
1. '02 UM
2. '98 UM
3. Xlll
Man i honestly never liked '03 that much and i thought most of the community felt the same, pretty crazy to see so much love for it here, lol.
Mukai is such an underrated boss since you don't ever see the guy even in the ONE game he is present.
He does appear in KoF13 tho.
Sweet one of my favorite KOF titles. Mainly since it’s Ash’s first appearance.
The Ash saga > NEST saga.
03 is great, XI is excellent and XIII is fucking amazing
what's most surprising for me is that he beat kusanagi in his 1st try
With a super move also
You can play with the Secret Treasures Team in this game (their ending is canon), but the cheatcode to unlock Chizuru is unbelievably hard to pull out
If you have the PS2 and Xbox version you can select her without the code
@@MattDeRac I had no idea! I only played the arcade version
How did I know he wouldn't write it as Tales of Ash saga
Some Fun Fact: Ash's VA also voices Balrog in SNK Vs Capcom.
The animation of KOF 03 is really awesome! It reminds me of SNK vs Capcom SVC Chaos. You know what would be cool? If Boom Studios and Capcom came together to write an SNK vs Capcom crossover comic series. Technically you can do it in video games like Smash and the vs series like SNK and Capcom, but I thought it would be a good idea anyway.
Same devs apparently.
Ash's fireball super having full invincibility is one hell of a drug
GOOD LORD ALMIGHTY THAT PIXEL SPRITE!!!
This is amongst the most gorgeous game I’ve seen in years!! DAAAAM…..
Prior to XIII GM, this was the only Ash Saga game on Switch. Hopefully now they put XI on it.
They lost source code for XI so it's never happening
And we finally see Mukai. Always thought this guy was cool.
Side note, the largest Neo Geo games were 708 Megs running on the Giga Power software, which were Metal Slug 3 and 5, SamSho 5 and 5 special, and SvC Chaos. These were absolutely pushing the limits of some pretty old hardware than ran stuff from 1990, but SNK somehow managed to make KoF 2003 with 716 Megs, making it the largest and only one of it's size. The game itself even looks stupidly good on Neo Geo hardware, and they somehow made a 3v3 tag game with these limits.
And then's there's Garou MOTW and Art Of Fighting 3
Technically, it's 716 megaBITS, not MegaBYTES, as none of the cartridge-based consoles of the 90s actually used MB for measurement, but rather Mb. So KOF 2003 was actually 89.5 Megabytes, though that's still massively larger than anything ever released on something like the Genesis or Super Nintendo, as even the more recent homebrew games (like Pier Solar or Paprium) are still nowhere near as large as what these late Neo Geo games were.
Hell, even the N64 never went this big, as its limit was 512 Mb, or just 64 MB. Yes, KOF 2003 is larger than the N64 version of Resident Evil 2!
@@saadhasan2518 Those were also huge, but I didn't mention them cause Garou was only 688 Megs, and AoF 3 was 298, which was somehwat large for not using the giga power.
@@DrMario- but still on a then aging Neo Geo hardware they were able to pull it off
@@saadhasan2518 True, anything late into the Neo Geo's life was impressive. The whole concept of the system having multiple cart slots was super cool and it would be interesting to see if it would have done even better in America and other places where it was more overlooked.
Kof’98 and ‘99 are my favorite in the series ‘01 being the weirdest one lol 😆 and ‘95 having the best sound effects in the history of kOF imo.
It's funny that the KOF tournament part in this one is so short and they go right into the 'world ending/domination portion' of the story.
Listening to all these KOF narrations, I think Max should consider doing audiobooks. It'd be...an experience, if nothing else.
I am obsessed with this legacy series❤
Oh yes and suddenly everybody loves KOF 2003, no?
Ah yes, the fastest paced KoF game and the one that has the best super flash animations
Also the only canonical KoF game to feature multiple boss routes
The King of Fighters 2003 is one of the best games in the series. It has a great story, has better colours for the characters, more sprites, Highly detailed Athena outfit for the first time in history, and the best art of all the games combined.
Game didnt do well cause legacy players couldent do their cheap low jumps as much as they wanted due to mobility being tikered with. Bunch of cry babies ;)
Never seen this boss before but id love for him to return
Ash time baby
Mukai is underrated and Ash is overhated.... Or no?
I love ash as this asshole who líkes messing with the Sacred Treasures team
Mukai dying in KoF13 was really disappointing, hopefully comes back in KoF15 in one of the dlcs
Ash is overrated asf.
People hated him for being flamboyant and stealing Kyo's spotlight, I hated him because I struggle with charge characters💀
I hate Ash mainly because of his personality, he is a jerk but not a likeable one.
Also, not a fan of his design and gameplay (expect in Maximum Impact Regulation A, Ash plays really good there)
I hope they add roll-back to this game.
Not trying to disrespect 03, but XI is an 2003 2.0, it would make more sense to put rollback on XI than 2003
@@Colecionador7162 that's true man
Btw Max it was K’ whose canon team it is in 2003. Or a mix of Ikari, K’, and Kyo.
DAMMIT HE DIDN’T GET TO FIGHT ADELHEID (Rugal’s son) (Also my favourite KOF character.)
He didn't skip it, he just went down a different route.
Probably my favourite new addition from the Ash Saga, hope he comes back so they can develop his character more and give us a "Rugal" for non dream match games.
This is my favorite KoF game!
The big problem about this game is the poor sound. Also, while the characters are great there is still a lack of characters to which would be awesome in this edition of KOF.
Totally, sound is wak on this one
Yep actually have the the PS2 version with the arranged themes and its amazing
The soundtrack is great but the sound quality is whack and it feels distorted
If sound is the main issue, then it's fine by me since the game looks pretty good
KOF 2003 is not well liked by fandom but, it has one of the best arcades modes in my opinion. I like going through it
Same hear i liked it immediatly i thought it was a solid entry
I love when Maki just giggles and goes all over the place in max difficulty.
When she actually switches to Chizuru the game is playable, but when she tags that GOD damn dancing kagebunshi naruto double it's all ogre.
Really enjoying this series man much love
i love how meaty the punches sound on this game
Suprised he liked the game since most fans have rather mixe opinions about it, tho i wish the chat told him to check out Kyo and the Ikaris' team endings so he could grasp what's going on.
He actually did check out Kyo's ending but it's not here for some reason.
Feels like an actual boss fight (3 vs. 1) when the opponent has three life bars! It’s not often in fighting games boss characters have a different life bar from you because most fighters even the boss has the same life bar and power bar (sometimes don’t like Onslaught or Abyss but his power gauge displays but stays empty throughout the entire battle) you do. Apocalypse (his HP gauge displayed on the bottom of the screen), Galactus and Ultron Sigma (who have vertical health gauges, you don’t see that every day) are the exceptions however. You all know what health bars and power gauges are shaped like, right? Rectangles, popsicle sticks, indented rectangles (or parallelogram, is that what they’re called?) like the Wii banner and of course, parallelograms. The colours appear to be yellow, green (an appropriate colour for health bars imo), blue (which works for power bars imo) and sometimes red or whatever other colour they may be. We all know most of the time health bars are displayed on the top of the screen whereas power meters are sometimes below the vitality meter but most of the time it seems on the bottom of the screen along with what power level the character is on. Why does nobody seem to explain this?
Got this game from twitch prime rewards of all places and I've fallen in love. This game single handedly made me understand what's so good about old school fighting games and since trying I've expanded into learning sf3, mvc, and even some darkstalkers. Which is ironic because those games being in the media, and Terry in smash is the only reason I know SNK exists. Better late then never.
Not gonna lie, I really enjoyed seeing Maki fuck Max up. It was fun trying to figure out which was the real her and which was the clone.
Max plays characters he hates during the Nests Saga: "This games are bad, feel horrible, i prefer 94'"
Max plays 2003 with characters he actually likes: "Way better, i like this game a lot, tell me more fun things to do with Shen"
Morale of the story: Characters make the game.
I enjoyed playing KoF 2003, in the times I've played it, managed to do 10 different LDM (Leader Desperation Moves) with 10 different players, this game is.......AWESOME!!!!!
Max doing that laugh towards the end is hilarious
Oh, I thought I was going to see the Kyo + Iori + Chizuru (may need to use cheats) ending, which has much a bigger impact to the plot
NO ONE told Max about Leader moves the entire playthrough???
This game was really well made in graphics and animations back then and SNK was getting back their company from Eolith, but players didn't dig the tag thing and the consoles had already completely swallowed the arcades.
2003 is so underrated
If only kof XV had the xi tag system as a bonus mode, oh how fun would that be.
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