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Toshiyuki Kotani
, also known as styleos, is a Japanese video game illustrator and character designer with credits for games by Psikyo, SNK, and CAVE. During his time at SNK he designed several new characters for ''The King of Fighters'' series, including K', Maxima, and Angel.<


Published works

* '' The Fallen Angels (video game)'' (1998) * '''' (1999) * '''' (2000) * ''

Psikyo
Psikyo was a Japanese video game developer and publisher known for its shoot 'em ups and undressing mahjong games. It was founded in 1992 by former Video System staff who worked on the '' Aero Fighters'' series. Psikyo was mainly an arcade game developer, and ported some of their games to home consoles as well. Psikyo was acquired by X-Nauts in 2002. In 2003, it was reported that Psikyo was shutting down. Shortly afterwards, X-Nauts stated this news was wrong. Games would continue to be released under the Psikyo label, but would be outsourced to other teams. In 2007, Psikyo programming veteran Keiyuki Haragami started a company called Zerodiv to handle distribution of Psikyo's catalog. In March 2019, Zerodiv was acquired by City Connection, but in February 2025, Edia, the current owner of Telenet Japan IPs, purchased Zerodiv from City Connection by a value of one million yen. Games developed Psikyo label games not developed by Psikyo Notes References External linksOffic ...
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CAVE (company)
is a Japanese video game company founded in 1994 by former employees of Toaplan Co., Ltd., Toaplan following its bankruptcy. They are known primarily for their "bullet hell" shoot 'em ups; from 1995 up to 2013, CAVE was one of the most prolific shoot 'em up developers in the Japanese market. Alongside this, CAVE has produced a variety of other types games for arcades, home consoles, PCs, and smartphones, also dating back to 1995. "CAVE" is an acronym for "Computer Art Visual Entertainment". History During a stockholder meeting in August 2011, the company changed the English company name to 'CAVE Interactive Co., Ltd'. However, the foreign www.caveinteractive.com domain name had already been established on May 15, 2011. Key staff members include Tsuneki Ikeda (director and COO) and Makoto Asada (game development department head) who left the company in 2013. On January 24, 2014, community manager "Masa-King" announced that the Cave-World Twitter and blog were shutting down on ...
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The King Of Fighters
''The King of Fighters'' (''KOF'') is a series of fighting games by SNK that began with the release of ''The King of Fighters '94'' in 1994. The series was initially developed for SNK's Neo Geo (system), Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware and received yearly installments up until its tenth entry, ''The King of Fighters 2003'' — thereafter, SNK moved away from annual ''The King of Fighters'' releases and games adopted a Roman numerals, Roman numbered format, while simultaneously retiring the use of Neo Geo. The first major installment after this change was ''The King of Fighters XI'' (2005) on the Atomiswave arcade board. The series' most recent arcade hardware is the Taito Type X, Taito Type X2, first used with the release of ''The King of Fighters XII'' (2009) and continues with the latest entry in the series, ''The King of Fighters XV'' (2022). Porting, Ports of the arcade games have been released for several video game consoles. The games' story focuses on the title tournament in ...
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List Of The King Of Fighters Characters
''The King of Fighters'' fighting game series, produced by SNK, includes a wide cast of characters, some of which are taken from other SNK games. The story takes place in a fictional universe in which an annual series of 3-on-3 or 4-on-4 fighting tournaments are held. The first game in the series introduces the initial main character of the series, Kyo Kusanagi, a young Japanese fighter who is the heir to a powerful group of martial artists having pyrokinesis, pyrokinetic abilities. Kyo fights against the Kusanagi clan's enemies, his rival Iori Yagami, and the snake entity #Orochi, Orochi and its human followers, among others. The first four games in the series revolve about these fights, while ''The King of Fighters '99'' introduces a new story arc, revolving around K′, a young man who seeks to destroy the mysterious NESTS organization because they kidnapped him at an early age and stripped him of his past memories so that they could force him to be a fighter under their contr ...
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The Fallen Angels (video Game)
is a 1998 in video gaming, 1998 Fighting game, fighting arcade game from Japanese company Psikyo, developed by Steel Hearts. It was Psikyo's second attempt in the 2D versus fighting genre after ''Battle K-Road''. A "complete edition" of the game by Zerodiv (founded by former Psikyo programmer Keiyuki Haragami) was announced in 2019 to be released for arcades and later consoles, but no developments have occurred since. Gameplay Fallen Angels is a two dimensional fighting game that takes a somewhat realistic approach in its gameplay, with super powered moves and with fluid movements animated using real motions (which was also featured in ''Art of Fighting 3''). Projectile attacks are limited to three characters, atypical for the game's genre. The game featured eight playable characters: Cool, Harry Ness, Yuiren, Yuiran, Tarō, Torao Onigawara, Ruccio Roche and Haiji Mibu. The boss characters are Trigger and Carlos. Plot The game takes place in 2010, ten years after a massive eart ...
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The King Of Fighters '99
''The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle'', also called ''KOF '99'', is a 1999 fighting game developed and published by SNK for the Neo Geo MVS arcade and home consoles in 1999. It is the sixth installment in ''The King of Fighters'' series following ''The King of Fighters '98'', introducing a new story arc known as the "NESTS Chronicles" which is centered around a young man named K', who is formerly associated with a mysterious organization known only as List of The King of Fighters characters#The NESTS cartel, NESTS. The game introduces several changes to the established ''KOF'' format, most notably an assisting character labeled "Striker". The game was ported to the Neo Geo CD and the PlayStation (console), PlayStation. Dreamcast and Microsoft Windows versions were also released under the title whose stages were remodeled in 3D computer graphics, 3D. SNK had originally planned to remove main characters Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami, who had previously appeared in earlie ...
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