First game in SNK's long-running series to make it to the Playstation and second in the series (proper KOF games, not counting the Fatal Fury ones). Once again, fighters from all over the world receive an invitation to a team-fighting tournament, and yes, Rugal is behind it. This game also introduced for the first time Kyo's rival Iori Yagami, and placed Kyo as the main character for the rest of the series. Gameplay-wise this game introduced the "team edit" concept which would remain as a standard of the KOF games, in which you can choose to play with any of the pre-made teams (which are no longer country-based but instead theme based [bad guys, Fatal Fury, all-girls, etc]), or make your own by selecting any character you want.