Many of the characters in the game are not born out of thin air, they are either borrowed from other games, or they have other real-life prototypes.
The old game The King of Fighters is no exception, so today let's take a look at the prototypes of the five characters in The King of Fighters in reality.
The first Yagami hermitage
The bright red killer Matt hairstyle, a punk outfit, especially the strap on the leg is very outstanding,
There are a lot of rumors about his prototype among players, the most vivid of which is Raven Brother.
Although the shape and arrogance are very much in line with Yagami's personality, the prototype of Yagami is actually someone else.
His prototype is Seiki Takayama, the lead singer of the Japanese band ZYYG.
You may not have heard of this band, but the songs they sang will definitely bring back your memories.
The theme song "No One Can Stop Me" in Slam Dunk is from them!
SNK also borrowed from the image of the lead singer of this band, which exploded in 1993, and Yagami-an is very similar to him in terms of hairstyle, dressing style and flamboyant personality of a rock band.
Then in 1995's The King of Fighters 95, Yagami made his debut, and his profession was also set to be the bassist of the band.
In this way, it is even more evident that the image was taken from Takayama Seiki
Second place is Takuma Sakazaki from the Extreme Flow Dragon Tigers
His prototype is taken from the founder of Japan's Gokuku Jarate, Oyama Beida, with the same gi and the same fighting stance.
The background of the Dragon Tigers in the game is a reference to the Gokukuku Vacuum Handdojo.
We don't know how powerful this master is, but there is still a video circulating on the Internet from his lifetime
It is reported that he had a verbal altercation with a bull weighing 900 pounds, so he fought for more than 30 minutes with his bare hands, and finally he not only knocked the bull down with his strength, but also broke the hard horns with his bare hands, and won a nearly legendary battle between man and ox.
We don't know if it's true or not, but this highlight moment was also collected by SNK in the background of the Dragon Tigers
So the prototype of Takuma Sakazaki is indeed this karate master
The third place is Zhen Yuanzhai from the superpower team
He was born in China and is proficient in all kinds of boxing, and his proudest kung fu is drunken boxing.
His prototype is from the image of Su Huazi in the movie Drunken Fist.
It is played by the famous Chinese martial arts actor Yuan Xiaotian, and Su Qi'er, played by him, has a humorous language and is very popular.
Zhen Yuanzhai in The King of Fighters is also gray-haired, holding a wine gourd and using drunken boxing,
It can be seen that the image of Zhen Yuanzhai designed by SNK is precisely to pay tribute to the late martial arts master.
Fourth place: Cai Baoqi
That is, we often call the monkey king, whose image of being short, with a round hat on his head, and holding a sharp claw is easy to remember.
He is based on Freddy Kruger, the murderer from the 80s horror movie Ghost Street
Freddie in the movie is cunning, treacherous, insidious and evil, a murderer who haunts the night.
The image of the monkey is exactly the same as him,
But it's definitely not possible to put such a horror character directly into the game, so SNK added a bit of joy to this horror image. So the monkey-kun with its own funny atmosphere was born.
5th place Athena Asamiya
In the King of Fighters 94.95 version, Athena has always been decent, and by the time of the King of Fighters 96, she began to debut and became a star in The King of Fighters.
After that, it is impossible to pick up the clothes once a year, and put a nirvana to change a set of clothes directly with one action.
In The King of Fighters 97, his image is taken from the female singer Mori Taka Chisato on the screen, and the most obvious thing is from the dress-up link at the beginning of 97, the clothes and demeanor are exactly the same.
The key is that Chisato Moritaka has 4 colors in this dress, and Athena actually has 4 sets of exactly the same
This is no longer a reference, this is completely to tell you with action, I am Mori Gao Chiri, hurry up and play.
So what other character archetypes do you know in The King of Fighters?