SNK Gals' Fighters

SNK Gals' Fighters is a fighting game for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, released in 2000. The game was ported to the Nintendo Switch in the eShop on April 29, 2020, and included as part of Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 1 in 2021.

SNK Gals' Fighters
Developer(s)	Yumekobo Paon
Publisher(s)	SNK Corporation SNK of America Code Mystics (Nintendo Switch)
Platform(s)	Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo Switch
Release	Neo Geo Pocket Color JP: January 27, 2000 USA: February 19, 2000 Nintendo Switch WW: April 29, 2020 JP: April 30, 2020
Genre(s)	Fighting game
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

Gals' Fighters features female characters from various SNK franchises, where the characters compete in the aptly named Queen of Fighters tournament, with whoever being able to defeat its mysterious organizer "Miss X" (in reality, Iori Yagami dressed as a woman) being given the K' Talisman, which grants any wish. The characters' sprites were drawn in the same anime super deformed style as other fighters on the system.

The game plays similar to other NGPC fighting games, such as King of Fighters R-1 and R-2, although slightly faster, and with 1-on-1 matches. It also features items that a player can equip to influence the matches; many of the items, however, have no effect on the gameplay.

Characters

Gals' Fighters features eight standard playable characters, plus three unlockable characters, for a total of 11. This game marks the only playable appearance to date of Yuki, Kyo Kusanagi's girlfriend who had made cameo appearances in prior The King of Fighters games.

• Akari Ichijou
• Athena Asamiya
• Leona Heidern
• Mai Shiranui
• Miss X^[a][b]
• Nakoruru
• Shermie
• Shiki
• Whip^[a]
• Yuki^[a]
• Yuri Sakazaki

1. Unlockable character
2. Boss character

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	73/100 (Switch)[1]

Review scores

Publication	Score
Nintendo Life	8/10[2]
Digitally Downloaded	3.5/5[3]

Game Informer gave the Neo Geo Pocket version an overall score of 7.5 out of 10 praising the game of being a solid fighter in the Neo Geo collection and the added feature of winning and losing items and giving the characters different abilities, although giving criticism to the game as being too easy even when set on the hardest difficulty concluding “good game, but inferior when stacked up against the recently released Match the Millennium.”^[4]

In 2023, Time Extension identified SNK Gals' Fighters as one of the best games for the NGPC.^[5]

See also

• SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy