Fight Fever is a 1994 fighting game for the Neo Geo. The record credits SNK as developer and Viccom as publisher, but that attribution deserves caution: the game is generally associated with the Korean company Viccom, while SNK owned the platform it appeared on.

That is exactly what makes it an interesting entry. The Neo Geo was an arcade and home system with famously expensive cartridges, and virtually its entire library was produced in Japan, so a Korean title stands out and is usually described as the only one of its kind.

The play follows the template the whole genre used in 1994: two fighters facing each other in side view, character selection before the match, two winning rounds, and special moves entered through combinations of directions and buttons. The Neo Geo was setting the standard at the time, with large sprites, fluid animation and rich sound.

Comparisons with the platform's homegrown competition never went well for Fight Fever, and in period coverage it appears more as evidence of how hard it was for an outsider to work on this hardware than as a genuine rival to SNK's major brands. For collectors that is precisely its appeal.

This fighter is recorded on OldGame.cz with its year, both companies and images; there is no way to play it through the site.