
PS2 cover art, showing Kyo, K', Iori, Kula, Mai, Athena and Geese. Illustration by Nakano
The King of Fighters Neowave is a fighting game released in 2004 by SNK Playmore for the arcade board Sammy Atomiswave. It is the first SNK Playmore game not to be developed on the Neo Geo board. This game like The King of Fighters '98 and The King of Fighters 2002 is a Dream Match, designed to test the Atomiswave arcade board.
The game later received a port for PlayStation 2 in the PAL region and Japan (It did not leave for America because Sony Computer Entertainment America had a policy of banning direct port publications from 2D sprite games that were not part of a compilation collection). The XBOX version was released for North America, Japan and the PAL region.