The King of Fighters '98: Dream Match Never Ends (The Slugfest in the rest of the world) in the fifth game in The King of Fighters series. The game was released for the Neo-Geo and later ported to the Sony PlayStation and Sega Dreamcast. The Dreamcast port of the game was titled The King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999. A remake titled The King of Fighters '98: Ultimate Match was released in Japanese arcades on Match 18, 2008 and later on the PlayStationn 2. The original game was then released on the iOS on July 25, 2014.
The game does not have a storyline. Instead, it was developed as a "dream match" game featuring characters from all previous The King of Fighters games, including killed-off characters. The series' canon storyline continues in The King of Fighters '99.