The King of Fighters '98: Dream Match Never Ends/Trivia


 * This game is the first of the series with the functionality "Random Character".
 * However, the "Random Character" function choose only aleatory characters.


 * The Mid-Bosses of this game appears in Team Play as a Single Entry. However, this don't occurs with the teams before the Boss.


 * This game (and its updated version), along with The King of Fighters 2003, The King of Fighters XI, The King of Fighters XII, The King of Fighters XIII and The King of Fighters XV, are the only games of the series in which the character BGM plays after the round announce.


 * This game, The King of Fighters XIV and The King of Fighters XV are the only games of the series which the character defeated's name appears dimmed on the fight screen.


 * This game (and its remake), the two versions of The King of Fighters '94, The King of Fighters '95, The King of Fighters '96, The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, The King of Fighters XIV and The King of Fighters XV are the only games of the series with stages associated to one or more teams.
 * In this game (and its remake), this occurs only with the mid-boss teams.


 * This game, The King of Fighters '94 and The King of Fighters 2002 are the only games of the series with an updated version.


 * According to pixel art supervisor Toyohisa Tanabe, after The King of Fighters '98 finished development, the team created a special developer version of KOF '98 where Ryu and Ken from the Street Fighter series, as well as Son Goku from the Dragon Ball series were added as playable characters. This version of the game was made on developer hardware, and a physical cartridge of this version does not exist. The developers also apparently made this build of the game just for fun, and is not planned to be made public.