This game is what ALL other fighting games to this day strive for and don't pull off. This game was released in 1994, it's 2010 and this game is still one of the most coveted video games in existance. How can this game be a rip off when it pioneered the fighting genre of video games? The innovation this game's developers brought to the plate was WAY ahead of it's time...why do you think there were so many Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter releases? Granted those games were fun as well, but they had their work cut out for them. 2 games, 4 ports (K.I. 1&2 arcade, K.I. SNES, & K.I. Gold) put a lot of the games from the last decade to shame end of story close the book.