Where's the SNK love?

No King of Fighters?
No Samurai Shodown?
No Fatal Fury?
No World Heroes?


Hell, even Capcom's wonderful Darkstalkers series is nowhere to be seen as well as Arc Systems Guilty Gear series...

As you might be able to tell, I love my 2D fighters

From the list, I'm choosing Street Fighter. It features a wonderful level of depth and precision that other games can't seem to grasp (except maybe VF). It has a wonderful cast of characters and the SFIII is quite possible the most fluid and well executed Fighting game in the genre. Mortal Kombat has always been generic in terms of gameplay, Tekken is just... bad. Bloody Roar is the MK of the 3D fighter genre. Soul Calibur is good but not great. STILL haven't got around to playing Virtua Fighter (notices JKTrix giving me the "evil eye" ) And Smash Bros. is so non-traditional it's practically a sub-genre and shouldn't count.