I smell a bunch of fagits in here hating on Fatal Fury 1.
Think of it not as a poor Fatal Fury Special or something, see it as a take on Mike Tyson's Punch Out. The game doesn't really have a Vs mode, the whole thing is centered around defeating unique unplayable bosses, each has specific attacks and weaknesses. It's short but sweet, it's the most interesting and individual fighting game on the Neo Geo.
Nah. Fatal Fury 1, and the Fatal Fury series in general, is crapola. Nice presentation but the gameplay was almost always trash.
World Heroes 1 has terrible presentation and is ultimately just a shameless ripoff, but it still plays better than FF1 despite being floaty as fuck and having laughably broken block pushbacks.
The whiff of ass on FF games didn't start dissipating until Real Bout 1 where you didn't have to wait 100 frames after pressing up for a jump to start. They had a real problem with horrific warm up times on jumps and special move recovery up until that point.
There's Samurai Shodown 2, Garou, and a couple of KOF games. You can throw the rest of them in the dumpster where they belong.