“Kaze no Allegory,” from King of Fighters ‘97 Arrange Sound Trax. Thinking about Takenobu Mitsuyoshi’s Street Fighter tribute set my mind to another of my favorite slightly goofy fighting-game related tracks, one that, to me, is synonymous with KOF.

I love that it’s a meditative, sort of melancholy acoustic number … sung in character (with appropriately deep voice) by a fighting game character, in this case Iori Yagami, voiced by Kunihiko Yasui. That seems like the kind of thing that would only make sense in KOF.

If you want to sing along, and know what you’re singing, lyrics in both English and Japanese can be found here.