In King of Fighters ‘94 all the characters are broken into teams of three with each representing a nation of the world. Terry Bogard, an American, and his American brother Andy, and Japanese friend Joe Higashi are all representing the nation of Italy. If you look at all the other teams, almost all of them have some sort of relation to the country they are representing (almost). There is already a U.S.A. team with three Americans on it, and the same goes for Team Japan (all Japanese characters). I thought maybe the last name of “Bogard” was Italian, but it seems its more likely to be Dutch. Perhaps the game designers had a better idea for an Italian stage than something from the Netherlands? Andy Bogard does have an Italian themed stage in Fatal Fury 2, so perhaps that is the tangential link that brought them to represent Italy. I hope Italy was proud of the teams effort.