Just as wealth can bring about evil, so can poorness. Or something. See, one man, Takuma Sakazaki, didn't realize that bars were the only way to make money, instead choosing to open a martial arts dojo. Since the only martial arts anyone in South Town cared about was drunken style, the dojo very quickly went bankrupt. This drove Takuma insane, and he kidnapped his own daughter, Yuri, and forced his son Ryo and student Robert Garcia, who lived in 1952 but accidentally fell into ice and was thawed out 40 years later by Takuma, to fight through various...uh..bars in order to beat him up and take Yuri back. Since everyone was so drunk, a fight occured in each of these bars.
There were two more games made for the Art of Fighting series, but no one really gave a shit.
;D Holy shit this is funny. Finally somebody made fun of Rugal always blowing stuff up.