Ok so ESAKA from KOF '98 might be the single most iconic fighting game character theme on the Neo Geo. SNK's sound team composed a roster of bangers here and somehow every team got their own anthem. Kurikinton with that guitar arrangement for the Fatal Fury crew is pure 90s arcade energy, distorted and punchy through the hardware.
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Rumbling on the City gives the Ikari Team this heavy military groove that just works. And Bloody. The way that track creeps in for the Orochi Team is genuinely unsettling for a fighting game. Even the smaller cuts like Fairy and Choi Bounge Ondo have so much personality baked in.
If you've ever dropped quarters on a Neo Geo cabinet, these tracks are already in your blood.