{"id":39505,"date":"2024-11-07T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=39505"},"modified":"2024-11-07T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:18:15","slug":"snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"SNK’s The King of Fighters 98 is now part of a high-tech health monitoring machine\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2024 is the 30th<\/sup> anniversary of SNK\u2019s fighting game series The King of Fighters. As part of the anniversary celebrations, measuring device manufacturer Tanita has teamed up with SNK to create, of all things, a series of high-tech health monitoring devices, one of which even lets you play The King of Fighters \u201898<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The range includes a pedometer, and thermo-hygrometer (which measures both room temperature and humidity). But the big-ticket item is the body composition analyzer. Designed for professional use, the device not only performs a detailed analysis of body fat and muscle mass for each part of the body, but also allows the user to battle it out in The King of Fighters \u201898. From Tanita\u2019s product presentation below, it seems that you simply hook up a controller to the machine, and you can also play a few rounds against other players.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"King
SNK CEO Kenji\u00a0Matsubara\u00a0and Tanita CEO Senri Tanida try out the King of Fighters ’98 body composition analyzer at a preview event (Image: TANITAofficial on X<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"King<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The body composition analyzer can also store up to a million measurements that can be viewed on its LCD screen. This pro-level device does not come cheap though, as it will set you back 2 million yen (about $13k).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also Tanita\u2019s 80th<\/sup> anniversary this year, so the collaboration with SNK is a dual celebration. While Tanita is well-known in Japan as a measuring device manufacturer, in recent years the company has collaborated with various video games, even creating a Twin Stick for Sega\u2019s Virtual On: Cyber Troopers series.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tanita and SNK have teamed up to create a body composition analyzer, which also allows you to play King of Fighters ’98.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":39512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-39505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nSNK's The King of Fighters 98 is now part of a high-tech health monitoring machine\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tanita and SNK have teamed up to create a body composition analyzer, which also allows you to play King of Fighters '98.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SNK's The King of Fighters 98 is now part of a high-tech health monitoring machine\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tanita and SNK have teamed up to create a body composition analyzer, which also allows you to play King of Fighters '98.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-11-07T10:18:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-11-07T10:18:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241107-39505-header.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"496\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Verity Townsend\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Verity Townsend\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"SNK's The King of Fighters 98 is now part of a high-tech health monitoring machine\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"Tanita and SNK have teamed up to create a body composition analyzer, which also allows you to play King of Fighters '98.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"SNK's The King of Fighters 98 is now part of a high-tech health monitoring machine\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"Tanita and SNK have teamed up to create a body composition analyzer, which also allows you to play King of Fighters '98.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2024-11-07T10:18:11+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-11-07T10:18:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":496,"url":"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241107-39505-header.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Verity Townsend","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Verity Townsend","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/"},"author":{"name":"Verity Townsend","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d093b34094aa444f3b5cf8d2af3a6bad"},"headline":"SNK’s The King of Fighters 98 is now part of a high-tech health monitoring machine\u00a0\u00a0","datePublished":"2024-11-07T10:18:11+00:00","dateModified":"2024-11-07T10:18:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/"},"wordCount":274,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241107-39505-header.jpeg","keywords":["News (Japan-related)"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/","name":"SNK's The King of Fighters 98 is now part of a high-tech health monitoring machine\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241107-39505-header.jpeg","datePublished":"2024-11-07T10:18:11+00:00","dateModified":"2024-11-07T10:18:15+00:00","description":"Tanita and SNK have teamed up to create a body composition analyzer, which also allows you to play King of Fighters '98.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241107-39505-header.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241107-39505-header.jpeg","width":900,"height":496,"caption":"The King of Fighters 98 body composition analyzer SNK and Tanita collaboration"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/snks-the-king-of-fighters-98-is-now-part-of-a-high-tech-health-monitoring-machine\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"SNK’s The King of Fighters 98 is now part of a high-tech health monitoring machine\u00a0\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d093b34094aa444f3b5cf8d2af3a6bad","name":"Verity Townsend","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pz-WVnDc_400x400-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pz-WVnDc_400x400-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pz-WVnDc_400x400-100x100.jpg","caption":"Verity Townsend"},"description":"Automaton West Editor and translator. She has a soft spot for old-school Sierra adventure games and Final Fantasy VIII (yes, 8!). Can often be found hunting down weird forgotten games and finding out everything about them. Frequently muses about characters and lines from Metal Gear Solid and Disco Elysium. Aims to keep Automaton fresh and interesting with a wide variety of articles.","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/verity-townsend\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39505"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39519,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions\/39519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}