Fight Fever (Korean: 왕중왕, Wang Jung Wang, lit. "King of Kings"; Japanese: ファイトフィーバー, Faito Fībā) is a 2D Fighting Game that was made available for the Neo-Geo MVS System on June 28, 1994. It is the first South Korean title made for the Neo Geo and is the first game developed and published by Viccom (now known as Unotechnology).
Viccom would later make a Spiritual Successor to Fight Fever, titled The Eye of Typhoon, that was released in 1996 for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and MS-DOS.
The game provides examples of:
- Acrofatic: Golrio may have an excess of fat in his midsection, but he can also perform a Spin Attack that can be whipped out very quickly.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Arrogant Karate Guy in this case. The Japanese fighter Karate Kenji believes in Karate being the paramount school of martial arts and will challenge the player's character to a fight to demonstrate his prowess.
- Badasses Wear Bandanas: Rophen Heimer may not have an occupation that scream badass, he's a bartender, but he can duke out with other fighters on equal footing and also happens to wear a bandana when taking part in fighting.
- But Not Too Foreign: Kim Hoon is Mexican, but of Korean heritage.
- Blow You Away: Some of Miyuki's moveset involves this element, including throwing out a miniature tornado as a projectile and spinning rapidly spinning around in place in order parry attacks.
- Braids of Action: Chintao is a male example who interestingly even weaponizes this for battle by using his braid as an improvised whip.
- Dance Battler: Miyuki is a dancer and by extension uses a fighting style that incorporates some of her dance moves.
- Eagleland: Both varieties are represented in this game. While Magic Dunker is a fairly benign representative of the United States, Nick Commando, a soldier who blatantly uses lethal weapons such as knives and grenades in a fighting tournament, is more of the America the Boorish flavor.
- Final Boss: Karate Kenji is the final opponent who must be faced in order to complete the arcade ladder.
- Green and Mean: Invoked with Karate Kenji. He is a green clad martial artist who is determined to prove the supremacy of Karate over all other fighting styles. Though this trope is also downplayed in that he is not evil, but just highly arrogant.
- I Know Madden Kombat: Magic Dunker can throw out a basketball as a projectile.
- Kick Chick: Miyuki's fighting style primarily relies on kicks.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Nick Commando wears a helmet that has a face covering that is similar to the hockey mask worn by Jason Voorhees.
- Manly Facial Hair: Rophen Heimer and Master Taekuk sport mustaches, of which in the latter case takes the form of a handlebar-style mustache.
- Market-Based Title: In its native South Korea, this game is known as Wang Jung Wang (meaning "King of Kings"), but everywhere else it is titled as Fight Fever.
- Mighty Glacier: Golrio and Nick Commando are of this archetype to varying degrees.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The American basketball playing fighter Magic Dunker is obviously modeled on real-life NBA athlete Magic Johnson.
- Old Master: Master Taekuk is the oldest fighter in the game.
- Playing with Fire: Chintao can perform some moves that involve flames.
- Rubber Man: Master Taekuk can extend his limbs to unnaturally long lengths, thus giving him the longest reach of any character on the roster.
- Shoto Clone: Han Baedal and Kim Hoon. However, due to Fight Fever being modeled after Fatal Fury 2/Fatal Fury Special and Art of Fighting rather than Street Fighter II, they are more like Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia (from the latter title) by having flying kicks and exclusive special rapid moves (Han's is a rapid punch move like Ryo Sakazaki's, while Kim's is a rapid kick move like Robert Garcia's). And while Han Baedal is Korean, he seems more faithful to the legendary Karateka also from South Korea, Masutatsu Oyama than Ryu is
. For Kim Hoon, his look and stage match Ryo Sakazaki more than Ken Masters. In fact, Fight Fever's developer Viccom was SNK's Korean distributor who exchanged ideas with SNK while The King of Fighters '94 was in development at the same time and had the Art of Fighting characters' stage take place in Mexico (Which is likely why Kim Hoon is Mexican in spite of being named Kim Hoon). - Shout-Out:
- Han Baedal, though largely modeled on Ryo Sakazaki, also takes several cues from Street Fighter's Ryu, notably even wearing a martial arts headband much like his (though with the addition of the Taegeuk on it). Kim Hoon also worth noting has somewhat of a resemblance to Ken Masters. Also, on the subject of Street Fighter pastiches, is also worth noting that Miyuki has a fighting style that is very much like that of Chun-Li.
- As mentioned under Malevolent Masked Men above, is basically Jason Voorhees with an American military motif.
- Karate Kenji has quite a few visual similarities to Geese Howard and Samurai Shodown's Haohmaru. Also not to mention using attacks largely lifted from the former including his own version of Geese's Raging Storm.
- The Smurfette Principle: Miyuki is the lone playable female in the game.
- Token Minority: Magic Dunker is the lone black guy on the roster.
- Warrior Monk: Chintao is a Shaolin Buddhist monk.
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Magic Dunker wears an outfit that has an American flag motif to make it obvious as to where he is from. Done somewhat more subtly in the case of Han Baedal who wears a Martial Arts Headband that features the Taegeuk that is featured on South Korea's flag.
