The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise

The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise (THE KING OF FIGHTERS バトル DE パラダイス), alternatively known as KOF: Battle de Paradise, is a board game style handheld game developed for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. It was released July 6, 2000 and remains exclusively in Japan. Players could transfer game points for the Dreamcast port, The King of Fighters '99: Evolution, to speed up the leveling process for the Extra Strikers. The artistic style of the games is similar to SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash.

Story
The storyline is described officially by SNK as follows: Four young boys and girls who love "KOF" are sucked into the Neo Geo Pocket! There, they find themselves drawn into a mysterious world full of KOF characters. Together with their special partners, they set out for their greatest journey...

Gameplay
The game is a board based, two player, party game that plays in a similar manner as sugoroku. The players choose an original character to represent their place on the board as well as an accompanying Striker character (the Extra Strikers from The King of Fighters '99: Evolution). Players roll a dice and move along the board with various squares; certain squares trigger one of many mini-games for the player's striker to participate for "coins". Mini-games themselves are a collection of memory games, dodging contests, quiz challenges, and other games common to the genre. The main goal of the game is to gather coins to buy "stars"; the player with the most stars wins.

Players can alternatively gain points and affect the other player by drawing "cards". The cards can either be bought in the board's card stores with coins or given during special events. They all have various effects that manipulate things like the dice rolls, the players' stocks, and other effects.

Other characters from the King of Fighters series randomly appear in events or mini-games to assist or delay players on the board. Results depend on whether they're in "Justice" or "Evil" mode, which is basically the "face" or "heel" of a character.

Heroes

 * Ice
 * Masamune
 * Yu G - later makes a cameo in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.
 * Hatoko

Strikers

 * Kyo Kusanagi
 * Athena Asamiya
 * Goro Daimon
 * Ryuji Yamazaki
 * Billy Kane
 * Chizuru Kagura
 * Fiolina Germi
 * Alfred Airhawk
 * Syo Kirishima
 * Gai Tendo