Real Bout Fatal Fury

Real Bout Fatal Fury
Developer(s)SNK
Publisher(s)
SNK
  • PlayStation
Producer(s)Eikichi Kawasaki
Takashi Nishiyama
Designer(s)Takahisa Yariyama
Takashi Tsukamoto
Programmer(s)Tony Oki
Artist(s)Ema Sue
G. Ishidaman
Higashi Pon
Composer(s)Hideki Asanaka
Toshio Shimizu
SeriesFatal Fury
Platform(s)Arcade, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo CD, PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Release
21 December 1995
  • Arcade
    • WW: 21 December 1995
    Neo Geo AES
    • WW: 26 January 1996
    Neo Geo CD
    • JP/EU: 23 February 1996
    Saturn
    • JP: 20 September 1996
    PlayStation
    Original release
    • JP: 10 January 1997
    • EU: August 1997
    Re-release
    • JP: 23 July 1998
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNeo Geo MVS

Real Bout Fatal Fury is a 1995 fighting game released by SNK for the Neo-Geo arcade and home platforms. It is the fourth mainline installment in the Fatal Fury series, following Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory. It the fifth game in the series overall, and the first game of the Real Bout sub-series.

Ports of Real Bout were released in February 1996 for the Neo-Geo CD and PlayStation in Japan and Europe. In September 1996, a port was released in Japan for the Sega Saturn, which requires the 1MB RAM cartridge for the system. It was included in Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol. 2 compilation released in February 2007 for the PlayStation 2. The compilation was re-released in the PlayStation Store on PlayStation 4 in March 2017.