Neo Geo "firsts"

I'm writing an article about how certain Neo Geo games innovated features that are still used in gaming today.

Here's a list of some that I've come up with, I'd appreciate any contributions or corrections.

Art of Fighting:
Taunts
SDM (when life bar is flashing)
Visible face damage to characters
Super meter
Meter charge
Background scaling
dashing

Fatal Fury
"Dramatic Battle" (2 players vs 1 cpu)
Multi-plane fighting
changing backgrounds

Samurai Shodown
"Rage Gague"
weapon based fighting
running

KoF 94
Team based fighting

KoF 95
Super jump

KoF 96
Rolling
low jumps
"team assist" (Striker) *was this in before '96?

Give me some more

"team assist" (Striker) *was this in before '96?

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Yep, in 94 and 95.

some more:

Fatal Fury:

Time-changing backgrounds

Real Bout Fatal Fury:

Linesway Combos
2 Health Bars

Savage Reign:

Multiple Fighting Stages

Would Kizuna be the first Tag Battle game?

The_Chosen_One:
Would Kizuna be the first Tag Battle game?

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No. There was this NES wrestling game (it had like weirdly colored SD wrestlers) and you could tag out between 2 characters.